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Direct linkSobel, David M.; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Child Development, 2010
Two experiments examined preschoolers' ability to learn novel words using others' expertise about objects' nonobvious properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds (n = 24) endorsed individuals' labels for objects based on their differing causal knowledge about those objects. Experiment 2 examined the robustness of this inference and its development.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition
Peer reviewedCarmean, Stephen L.; Carmean, C. Jean – Child Development, 1971
Results of 5 experiments supported the hypothesis that many nonlearners in a multipair visual discrimination learning task were following position rather than object strategies and that it was possible to predict individual subjects' strategies from previous performances. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
