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- Title
The effect of shyness on children's formation and retention of novel word–object mappings.
- Authors
HILTON, MATT; WESTERMANN, GERT
- Abstract
This study set out to examine whether shyness, an aversion to novelty and unfamiliar social situations, can affect the processes that underlie early word learning. Twenty-four-month-old children (n =32) were presented with sets of one novel and two familiar objects, and it was found that shyer children were less likely to select a novel object as the referent of a novel label. Furthermore, not-shy children then showed evidence of retaining these novel mappings, but shy children did not. These findings suggest that shy children's aversion to novelty and to the unfamiliar context can impact on their word learning.
- Subjects
BASHFULNESS; EARLY childhood vocabulary education; CHILD development; AVERSION; NOVELTY (Perception); LEARNING; FAMILIARITY (Psychology); INFANTS; EARLY childhood education; LANGUAGE acquisition; TASK performance
- Publication
Journal of Child Language, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 6, p1394
- ISSN
0305-0009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S030500091600057X