Some facts one simply cannot deny

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20366554
AutoresJill G De Villiers (Harvard University), Helen B Tager Flusberg (Harvard University)
Ano1975
Volume2
Fascículo2
Páginas279-286
Data de publicação1975-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000900001100
OpenAlexW2093621115
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas73
Referências citadas1

Two-, three-, and four-year-old children were tested on a variation of Wason's (1965) procedure for testing the effects of plausibility on the comprehension of negative statements. It was found that negatives about an exceptional item in an array, i.e. plausible negatives, were understood before implausible negatives. Reaction time data revealed that plausible negatives were also processed more rapidly for three- and four-year-olds. An additional effect on plausibility, namely the degree of confusability between the different items in an array, was proposed, and was found to become increasingly salient with age

Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Negative · Salient · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence