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Word Learning and Attention Allocation Based on Word Class and Category Knowledge
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Hupp, Julie M. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Attention allocation in word learning may vary developmentally based on the novelty of the object. It has been suggested that children differentially learn verbs based on the novelty of the agent, but adults do not because they automatically infer the object's category and thus treat it like a familiar object. The current research examined…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Adults, Children, Nouns
Parents' Emotion-Related Beliefs, Behaviours, and Skills Predict Children's Recognition of Emotion
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Castro, Vanessa L.; Halberstadt, Amy G.; Lozada, Fantasy T.; Craig, Ashley B. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Children who are able to recognize others' emotions are successful in a variety of socioemotional domains, yet we know little about how school-aged children's abilities develop, particularly in the family context. We hypothesized that children develop emotion recognition skill as a function of parents' own emotion-related beliefs,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Video Technology, Regression (Statistics), Emotional Response
Investigating Individual Differences in Toddler Search with Mixture Models
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Berthier, Neil E.; Boucher, Kelsea; Weisner, Nina – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Children's performance on cognitive tasks is often described in categorical terms in that a child is described as either passing or failing a test, or knowing or not knowing some concept. We used binomial mixture models to determine whether individual children could be classified as passing or failing two search tasks, the DeLoache model room…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Toddlers, Investigations, Models
The Development of Symbolic Uses of Objects in Infants in a Triadic Context: A Pragmatic and Semiotic Perspective
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Palacios, Pedro; Rodríguez, Cintia – Infant and Child Development, 2015
In this study, we address the construction of the first symbolic uses of objects in contexts of triadic interaction (adult-child-object). We assume that symbolic productions are based on public rules of the use of objects previously agreed by the community. The first symbols are not rooted in any literal, evident reality, but in shared rules of…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semiotics, Infants, Object Permanence