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Sensoy, Özlem; Culham, Jody C.; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Infant and Child Development, 2021
We investigate when infants exhibit knowledge of the familiar size of well-known objects and whether this knowledge is affected by stimulus format, that is, whether the stimuli are presented as real objects or matched pictures. Infants (130 7- and 12-month-olds) saw everyday objects such as sippy cups and pacifiers in their familiar size and novel…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Stimuli, Pictorial Stimuli, Familiarity
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Szalai, Gerda; Egyed, Katalin – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Toddlers show high sensitivity to creator's intention when they interpret pictures. Previous research suggest that toddlers' performance can be facilitated in a picture comprehension task by making available the creator's intention that is, the social origin of picture-creation. The present study aims to test the generalizability of this…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis, Generalization
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Muñoz Marco, Victor; Cano Martil, Samuel; Munoz Sastre, Maria Teresa; Sorum, Paul C.; Mullet, Etienne – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Knowing the way children and adolescents assess the risk of disease transmission is important because this kind of knowledge may allow health caregivers to better communicate with them. We had 587 students in Spain and France aged 7-16 judge the risk of disease transmission in 28 scenarios of students visiting a sick friend. The scenarios were…
Descriptors: Risk, Diseases, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students