Causes of young children's confusion of same and different |
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Authors: | James Ramsey Speer Jane S. Mc Coy |
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Affiliation: | Stephen F. Austin State University USA;Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |
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Abstract: | Three experiments are reported that explore 3-year-olds' and adults' understanding of the words, same and different. In the first, 3-year-olds selected a bead that was “the same color as” or “a different color from” a target bead. In the second, 3-year-olds selected a bead that was “the same in some way as” or “different in some way from” a target bead. Contrary to results reported previously, the majority of consistent responders chose a bead identical with the target in response to the different instruction in both experiments. The rates of both incorrect different responding and incorrect same responding were greater in Experiment II than in Experiment I. In Experiment III, adults chose objects that were “the same as” or “different from” a target; unlike the children, they never chose a target-identical object in response to different instructions. It is argued that children and adults treat same and different differently, and that children's task performance is influenced by three factors: semantic, pragmatic, and nonlinguistic. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to J. R. Speer Department of Psychology Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches TX. 75962. |
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