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Children's ability to make tentative interpretations of ambiguous messages.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Beck, Sarah Ruth Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z. |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Consistent with prior research, 5- and 6-year-old children overestimated their knowledge of the intended referent of ambiguous messages. Yet they correctly revised their interpretations of ambiguous messages in light of contradicting information that followed immediately, while maintaining their initial interpretations of unambiguous messages (Experiment 1). Children of this age were able to integrate information over two successive ambiguous messages to identify the intended referent (Experiment 2). However, unlike 7- and 8-year-olds, they were no more likely to search for further information following ambiguous messages compared with unambiguous ones (Experiment 3). We conclude that although 5- and 6-year-olds' interpretations of ambiguous messages are not tentative at the outset, they can use source monitoring skills to treat them as tentative retrospectively, at least over short time spans. |
| Starting Page | 95 |
| Ending Page | 114 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1006/jecp.2000.2583 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.sarahruthbeck.net/Beck2001JECP.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 11292313 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2000.2583 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 79 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Journal | Journal of experimental child psychology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
