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Shifts from Nominal Realism in Grade School Children as a Function of Participating in a Naming Task

Ball, Steven; Simpson, Richard – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Children show less evidence of nominal realism (treating the name and its object as the same) after participating in an arbitrary naming task, but older children do not show as much development away from nominal realism as Piaget postulated. (RL)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children