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Sensoy, Özlem; Culham, Jody C.; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Infant and Child Development, 2021
We investigate when infants exhibit knowledge of the familiar size of well-known objects and whether this knowledge is affected by stimulus format, that is, whether the stimuli are presented as real objects or matched pictures. Infants (130 7- and 12-month-olds) saw everyday objects such as sippy cups and pacifiers in their familiar size and novel…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Stimuli, Pictorial Stimuli, Familiarity
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Kaefer, Tanya; Neuman, Susan B.; Pinkham, Ashley M. – Reading Psychology, 2015
The goal of the current study is to explore the influence of knowledge on socioeconomic discrepancies in word learning and comprehension. After establishing socioeconomic differences in background knowledge (Study 1), the authors presented children with a storybook that incorporates this knowledge (Study 2). Results indicated that middle-income…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning