Lecture 6 - Part 4

Question 1

how is comprehension measured

Answer 1

parental reports

home observations

in lab, ask infants to choose named object from a selection

preferential looking paradigm

Question 2

what did tincoff & jusczyk find in their study on early word comprehension for socially salient words

Answer 2

infants looked at a video of either their mother or father when presented with the word “mummy” or “daddy”

Question 3

what do infants have knowledge of according to bergelson & swingley

Answer 3

food and body parts

Question 4

when do children understand their first words

Answer 4

6-9 months old

understanding slow at first but speeds up rapidly

Question 5

what is “fast mapping” according to heibeck & markman

Answer 5

the ability to form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of new words and how to use them

Question 6

what is the word range for a child aged 16 months old

Answer 6

70-270 words for typically developing children