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

Ball, Steven; Simpson, Richard

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Publication Date: 1977

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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, 96, 217-21, Jul 77

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, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Language Attitudes, Nouns, Symbolic Learning

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