LEARNING BY EXCLUSION OF NAME-OBJECT RELATION : EXPLORING OBJECT CHOICE BY CHILD

• Grant number: 11/23688-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Andréia Schmidt
• Grantee: Mariana Antoniazzi
• 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 aim of this project is to verify the effect of one variable with potential to produce learning of name-object relation after a single exclusion trial in young children: object choice by children before exclusion probes.Key words: Relational learning, exclusion responding, vocabulary acquisition, children.