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  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Language Acquisition

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  • Contextual changes impact learning, memory, and generalization.
  • The role of social context in generalization is not fully understood.

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  • 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.