Furthermore, different tasks call for different theories.
Consider language acquisition, for example
Behavioral theory helps us why U.S. children typically learn English and
We shall see that ethological theory,
one of the evolutionary adaptation theories,
directs our attention to ways in which the human organism is neutrally rewired for certain activities.
In interaction with an appropriate environment,
young children typically find that their acquisition of language comes rather naturally a type of easy learning.
Psychoanalytic theory alerts us to personality differences and to differing child rearing practices that influence a child's learning to talk.