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MacKenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined whether 12-month-olds will accept words that differ phonologically and phonetically from their native language as object labels in an associative learning task. Sixty infants were presented with sets of English word-object (N = 30), Japanese word-object (N = 15), or Czech word-object (N = 15) pairings until they habituated.…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Associative Learning, Slavic Languages, Infants
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Slaughter, Virginia – Child Development, 1998
Two studies demonstrated dissociation between preschoolers' understanding of pictorial and mental representations. Results showed that false picture tasks were significantly easier than false belief tasks. There was no correlation between performance on the two. Children were trained on false belief, false picture, or number conservation tasks;…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept)