Learning from picture books: The effect of naming on infants’ transfer of nonobvious properties

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dc.contributor.advisorGraham, Susan
dc.contributor.authorKhu, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-01T18:05:24Z
dc.date.available2012-11-13T08:01:45Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-01
dc.date.submitted2012en
dc.description.abstractThe present study investigated whether naming would facilitate infants’ transfer of information from picture books to the real world. Independent groups of 18- and 21-month-olds were shown a picture book that taught them a novel label for a novel object. Infants then saw a second picture book in which an adult demonstrated how to elicit the object’s nonobvious property. Accompanying narration described the pictures using the object’s newly learned label. Infants were subsequently tested with the real-world object depicted in the book and a different-colour exemplar. Infants’ performance on the test trials was compared with that of infants in a no label condition. The odds of attempting to elicit the object’s nonobvious property with the exact object depicted in the book were almost 2.5 times greater for infants who heard the label compared to infants who did not. Naming did not predict test performance for the different-colour exemplar.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKhu, M. (2012). Learning from picture books: The effect of naming on infants’ transfer of nonobvious properties (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26741en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26741
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/244
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectPsychology--Developmental
dc.subject.classificationearly symbolic developmenten_US
dc.titleLearning from picture books: The effect of naming on infants’ transfer of nonobvious properties
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineClinical Psychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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