24-Month-Olds' Selective Learning Is Not an All-or-None Phenomenon

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dc.contributor.authorHenderson, Annette M. E.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Susan
dc.contributor.authorSchell, Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-27T21:30:57Z
dc.date.available2020-04-27T21:30:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.description.abstractEvidence that children maintain some memories of labels that are unlikely to be shared by the broader linguistic community suggests that children's selective learning is not an all-or-none phenomenon. Across three experiments, we examine the contexts in which 24-month-olds show selective learning and whether they adjust their selective learning if provided with cues of in-context relevance. In each experiment, toddlers were first familiarized with a source who acted on familiar objects in either typical or atypical ways (e.g., used a car to mimic driving or hop like a rabbit) or labeled familiar objects incorrectly (e.g., called a spoon a "brush"). The source then labeled unfamiliar objects using either a novel word (e.g., fep; Experiment 1) or sound (e.g., ring; Experiments 2 and 3). Results indicated that toddlers learnt words from the typical source but not from the atypical or inaccurate source. In contrast, toddlers extended sound labels only when a source who had previously acted atypically provided the sound labels. Thus, toddlers, like preschoolers, avoid forming semantic representations of new object labels that are unlikely to be relevant in the broader community, but will form event-based memories of such labels if they have reason to suspect such labels will have in-context relevance.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHenderson, A. M. E., Graham, S. A., & Schell, V. (2015). 24-Month-Olds' Selective Learning Is Not an All-or-None Phenomenon. "PloS ONE", 10(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131215"en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131215en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111909
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of Aucklanden_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.title24-Month-Olds' Selective Learning Is Not an All-or-None Phenomenonen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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