Do Young Children Consider Similarities or Differences When Responding to Referential Questions?

Autor/inn/en	Waters, Gillian M.; Dunning, Peter L.; Kapsokavadi, Marcella M.; Morris, Stephan L.; Pepper, Lisa B.
Titel	Do Young Children Consider Similarities or Differences When Responding to Referential Questions?
Quelle	In: International Journal of Early Childhood, 54 (2022) 3, S.321-337 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Waters, Gillian M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-7187
DOI	10.1007/s13158-021-00307-6
Schlagwörter	Questioning Techniques; Differences; Proximity; Young Children; Cognitive Processes; Recognition (Psychology); Concept Formation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Unterscheiden; Lebensnähe; Frühe Kindheit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung
Abstract	Young children often struggle with referential communications because they fail to compare all valid referents. In two studies, we investigated this comparison process. In Study 1, 4-7 year-olds (N = 114) were asked to categorize pairs of objects according to their similarities or differences, and then identified a unique quality of one of the objects by responding to a referential question. Children found it easier to judge the differences between objects than similarities. Correct judgments of differences predicted accurate identifications. In Study 2, 4-5 year-olds (N = 36) again categorized according to similarities or differences, but this time were asked for verbal explanations of their decisions. Recognition of differences was easier than recognition of similarities. Explanations of errors were either: (a) ambiguous; (b) color error: (c) thematic (creative imaginative explanations). Children offered thematic explanations when they failed to recognize similarities between objects, but not for errors of difference. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01