JUDITH M WATSON
Biographic Data
| ID | 5706347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | JUDITH M WATSON |
| GIVEN NAMES | JUDITH M |
| FAMILY NAME | WATSON |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON J M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Referential description by children in negative form
Previous experiments indicate that young children have difficulty in describing referents in negative terms. It is suggested that use of negation is unnatural (and therefore difficult) in many descriptive tasks because children tend to focus their attention on referent and to ignore immediate perceptual context. Additionally, negative descriptions are more natural where a referent lacks some feature of a contrasting item in context, than where it…
The Influence of Context on Referential Description in Children
S ummary . Two experiments are described which are concerned with the development of referential ability in children. In the first, children of normal and of subnormal educational attainment, aged between 4 and 12 years, were asked to describe simple actions. Referential adequacy increased markedly with mental age. The inadequacy of descriptions given by the less mature subjects was largely due to their neglect of the immediate perceived context …
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The Influence of Context on Referential Description in Children
S ummary . Two experiments are described which are concerned with the development of referential ability in children. In the first, children of normal and of subnormal educational attainment, aged between 4 and 12 years, were asked to describe simple actions. Referential adequacy increased markedly with mental age. The inadequacy of descriptions given by the less mature subjects was largely due to their neglect of the immediate perceived context …
Referential description by children in negative form
Previous experiments indicate that young children have difficulty in describing referents in negative terms. It is suggested that use of negation is unnatural (and therefore difficult) in many descriptive tasks because children tend to focus their attention on referent and to ignore immediate perceptual context. Additionally, negative descriptions are more natural where a referent lacks some feature of a contrasting item in context, than where it…
Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Referent (2 works) · Cognitive development (1 work) · Dimension (graph theory) (1 work)