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ERIC Number: EJ838282
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-May
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
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The Development and Robustness of Young Children's Understanding of Aspectuality
Waters, Gillian M.; Beck, Sarah R.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v103 n1 p108-114 May 2009
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. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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