Decoding of Children's Nonverbal Responses. Technical Report No. 365. [Report No.: TR-365

Autor/inn/en	Allen, Vernon L.; Feldman, Robert S.
Institution	Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning.
Titel	Decoding of Children's Nonverbal Responses. Technical Report No. 365. [Report No.: TR-365
Quelle	(1975), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adults; Behavior; Behavioral Science Research; Children; Cognitive Processes; Listening Comprehension; Nonverbal Communication; Videotape Recordings + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hörverständnis; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	The experiment was designed to see whether children differ from adults in the ability to understand nonverbal responses of other children. Ten third-grade children were secretly filmed while watching a very easy and a very hard math lesson. Third graders, sixth graders, and adults (college students) were asked to judge, based on a film of each child's face, whether the subject understood a lot, a little, or none of the lesson. The children were more successful at this than the adults, although the degree of accuracy in an absolute sense was not particularly high for either adults or children. Participants also found it easier to tell whether males were watching difficult or easy lessons. The results should not be taken to indicate that children encode all nonverbal responses better than adults, but rather that their familiarity with the social situations of their peers helps them infer the meaning of different facial expressions of other children. The results of this experiment have clear implications for classroom teaching and tutoring by children. (CD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01