| Grant number: | 10/12156-7 |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| Start date: | January 01, 2011 |
| End date: | December 31, 2012 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology |
| Principal Investigator: | Andréia Schmidt |
| Grantee: | Andréia Schmidt |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil |
Abstract
Exclusion responding, referred as fast mapping by Psycholinguistic authors, is a consistent behavioural pattern by which children learn to relate novel words to novel objects or events. It seems a basic underlying process to vocabulary acquisition. But, many literature data shows that this novel word-referent relation is not maintained after a single episode of exclusion responding. Researches of different theoretical orientation report a great variability in the participants' learning results and this variability is attributed to the child age, or to variables of experimental procedures. The aims of this project are: a) To investigate, in a large sample of different groups of children (aged eighteen to forty eight months), if acquisition of novel word-referent in a single trial can be related to age; b) To investigate, in this same sample, among children that didn't demonstrated learning the relationships in a single trial, how many expositions of this relation are necessary to occur learning; c) To verify the effect of two variables with potential to produce learning of name-object relation after a single exclusion trial in young children: object functionality and object choice by children before exclusion probes. (AU)
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