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The Relation between Basic Memory Processes and Awareness of Lexical Ignorance in Young Children

Lipowski, Stacy L.

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2008, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
One goal of the current investigation was to determine whether children's awareness of lexical ignorance is related to their understanding of false belief. A second goal was to determine whether awareness of lexical ignorance is related to basic memory processes, in particular, those used in an object recognition task. In Study 1, 37 children completed two linguistic judgments (object nameability judgment and word familiarity judgment), a false belief task, and two memory tasks. In Study 2, 40 children completed the two linguistic judgments, two false belief tasks, and two memory tasks. In general, the results suggest that awareness of lexical ignorance and understanding of false belief are distinct constructs during the preschool years. Accuracy on the object recognition task was related to accuracy of object nameability judgments, which supports Merriman and Lipko's (2008) dual criterion account of linguistic judgment.
William Merriman, PhD (Advisor)
John Dunlosky, PhD (Committee Member)
Katherine Rawson, PhD (Committee Member)
Nancy Docherty, PhD (Committee Member)

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  • Lipowski, S. L. (2008). The Relation between Basic Memory Processes and Awareness of Lexical Ignorance in Young Children [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1215112776

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lipowski, Stacy. The Relation between Basic Memory Processes and Awareness of Lexical Ignorance in Young Children. 2008. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1215112776.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lipowski, Stacy. "The Relation between Basic Memory Processes and Awareness of Lexical Ignorance in Young Children." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1215112776

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)