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Elizabeth R Goldenberg1, Catherine M Sandhofer
1Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Frontiers in Psychology
|October 18, 2013
Summary
Children
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Development
- Developmental Psychology
- Language Acquisition
Background:
- Contextual changes impact learning, memory, and generalization.
- The role of social context in generalization is not fully understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how a change in the experimenter affects children's generalization of novel noun categories.
- To determine age-related differences in the impact of experimenter change on generalization.
Main Methods:
- Three-, four-, and five-year-old children learned novel noun categories from one experimenter.
- Children were tested on generalization by either the original or a new experimenter.
Main Results:
- Three-year-olds' generalization was unaffected by the experimenter change.
- Four- and five-year-olds showed reduced generalization when tested by a novel experimenter.
Conclusions:
- Older children's generalization is sensitive to changes in the social context.
- Findings suggest implications for source monitoring and context-dependent learning in children.
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