How Toddlers and Preschoolers Learn to Uniquely Identify Referents for Others: A Training Study

Autor/inn/en	Matthews, Danielle; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	How Toddlers and Preschoolers Learn to Uniquely Identify Referents for Others: A Training Study
Quelle	In: Child Development, 78 (2007) 6, S.1744-1759 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01098.x
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Communication Skills; Transfer of Training; Pretests Posttests; Feedback (Response); Interpersonal Relationship; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kommunikationsstil; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	This training study investigates how children learn to refer to things unambiguously. Two hundred twenty-four children aged 2.6, 3.6, and 4.6 years were pre- and post-tested for their ability to request stickers from a dense array. Between test sessions, children were assigned to a training condition in which they (a) asked for stickers from an adult, (b) responded to an adult's requests for stickers, (c) observed 1 adult ask another for stickers, or (d) heard model descriptions of stickers. All conditions yielded improvements in referring strategies, with condition (a) being most effective. Four-year-olds additionally demonstrated learning effects in a transfer task. These results suggest that young children's communication skills develop best in response to feedback about their own attempts at reference. [This research was supported by the Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10