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Do context cues help preschoolers learn words by differentiating between reliable and unreliable informants?
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-29)
The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean ...
The Impact of Prior Postural Experience on Chinese and American Infants’ Object-Exploration Behaviors
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-05-01)
The proposed research focuses on extrinsic factors and aims to investigate how parenting practices, postural positions, and infants’ varied prior experiences in sitting, supine, and reclining postures influence 3-month-old ...
The Influence of Prior Reading Instruction and IEP Goals on the Reading Skills of Children with Down Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2012)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between IEP goals and prior reading instruction for children with Down Syndrome, and whether both of those variables had an impact on the children’s ...
A mind of its own: How a puppet’s reliability affects children’s beliefs about the puppeteer’s knowledge
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-12)
This study assessed whether 4-year-old children think a puppet has a mind separate from that of the puppeteer. 64 children, 48-60 months, watched a puppet (operated by a visible person) and another person label 3 familiar ...
Mismatched Tool: Determining the Properties by which Infants Categorize a Tool as “Spoon”
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-08)
In a study of infant tool use, Barrett, Davis, and Needham (2007) found that previous experience with spoons prevented infants from utilizing an unusual grasp of a teaspoon to complete a novel task. Infants were, however, ...
Prehension Enrichment Experience Facilitates Motor and Perceptual-Cognitive Development in Early Infancy
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-09)
Infants received a prehension enrichment experience (active training), which allowed pre-reaching infants to gain experience with prehension before they would normally begin such behaviors. During the prehension enrichment ...
Creature Features: Preschoolers Learn about Novel Creatures from Verbal Descriptions
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)
Children frequently learn about absent objects from verbal descriptions in everyday life. 3- and 4-year-olds were read verbal descriptions of novel creatures with novel labels and were then asked to choose the described ...
Eating Disorders and Life Span Development
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)
Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
Differences in How Monolingual and Bilingual Children Learn Second Labels for Familiar Objects
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
Acoustic properties of speech under stress in preschool children who do and do not stutter
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
Previous research has shown that stuttering, a potentially life-altering developmental disorder with typical onset during the preschool years, is linked in severity to temperamental and situational emotionality. Thirty-three ...