Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Learning color words involves learning a system of mappings.

C M Sandhofer1, L B Smith

  • 1Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington 47405, USA. csandhof@indiana.edu

Developmental Psychology
|June 25, 1999
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

The Microbiology of Sweet Water and Glycol Cooling Systems Used in HTST Pasteurizers in Fluid Milk Processing Plants in the United States.

Journal of food protection·2019
Same author

Use of Petrifilm™ to Evaluate the Microflora of Frozen Dessert Mixes <sup>1</sup>.

Journal of food protection·2019
Same author

Effect of Rising Temperatures on Growth and Survival of Clostridium perfringens Indigenous to Raw Beef <sup>1</sup>.

Journal of food protection·2019
Same author

Identification of Sertoli cell-specific transcripts in the mouse testis and the role of FSH and androgen in the control of Sertoli cell activity.

BMC genomics·2017
Same author

A missense mutation in Katnal1 underlies behavioural, neurological and ciliary anomalies.

Molecular psychiatry·2017
Same author

Cell-specific ablation in the testis: what have we learned?

Andrology·2015
Same journal

Dimensionalities of home science environment and family science capital and their relationship to science achievement: Evidence from a large-scale study in Chinese adolescents.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

The frequency of childhood gender-nonconforming behavior in a nationally representative sample.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Linking childhood adversity and daily hassles to adolescent sleep behaviors: Diurnal cortisol as a mediating pathway.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Infants' expectations about caregivers' comforting behavior and associations with maternal depressive symptoms at 6, 9, and 12 months.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Nonsymbolic ratio and fraction magnitude processing predict fraction knowledge in early grades.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

The growing influence of the parental monitoring-peer affiliation pathway in early adolescence.

Developmental psychology·2026
See all related articles

Children learn color words by mapping word associations, developing a characteristic acquisition order. Size word acquisition follows a different pattern, suggesting distinct learning processes for adjective categories.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistic Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Children's acquisition of adjectives, specifically color and size words, presents unique learning challenges.
  • Learning these words likely involves acquiring a system of mapping between words and their properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mapping systems children use when learning color and size adjectives.
  • To determine the order of acquisition for different types of word-property mappings.
  • To explore the relationship between word association learning and adjective acquisition.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted with two-year-olds, including a longitudinal study (Study 1) and a cross-sectional replication (Study 2).
  • Children completed color and size tasks designed to assess four types of mappings: word-word, property-property, word-property, and word-word-property.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Tasks involved assessing children's ability to associate words with specific properties.

    • Main Results:

    • Children demonstrated a consistent, characteristic order in acquiring color word mappings.
    • The acquisition pattern for size words differed significantly from that of color words.
    • Evidence suggests that learning word associations facilitates color word acquisition.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings indicate that children utilize distinct mapping systems for learning color and size adjectives.
    • Learning word associations appears to be a key factor in acquiring color vocabulary.
    • Acquiring color words may enhance selective attention to color properties in young children.