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The development and robustness of young children’s understanding of aspectuality
Waters, Gillian M. Beck, S.R.
Waters, Gillian M.
Beck, S.R.
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2009-05
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We investigated whether 6-year-olds’ understanding of perceptual
aspectuality was sufficiently robust to deal with the presence of
irrelevant information. A total of 32 children chose whether to look
or feel to locate a specific object (identifiable by sight or touch)
from four objects that were hidden. In half of the trials, the objects
were different on only one modality (e.g., four objects that felt different
but were the same color). In the remainder of the trials, the
objects also differed (partially) on one irrelevant modality (e.g.,
four objects that felt different, two red and two blue, where the
goal was to locate the soft object). Performance was worse on
the latter trials. We discuss children’s difficulty in dealing with
irrelevant information.
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Waters GM and Beck SR (2009) The development and robustness of young children’s understanding of aspectuality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 103(1): 108-114.
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