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The Development of a Metacognitive Disambiguation Effect: Novel Name Presentation Not Required

Henning, Kyle Joseph
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532635695038685

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2018, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Children tend to select a novel object rather than a familiar object when asked to identify the referent of a novel label. Current accounts of this so-called disambiguation effect do not address whether children have an abstract metacognitive representation of the effect. Do they represent their selection for each novel label as being based on the novelty contrast between the objects? In two experiments (each N = 48), 3- and 4-year-olds were told they were playing a game. In each round, they completed a disambiguation trial for a different novel label. After four rounds, they received additional rounds in which after being shown the familiar and unfamiliar object, but before being told the novel label, they were asked which object “was going to be right.” If children represented their responses in the game as based on a novelty contrast, they would predict that the unfamiliar object would be the correct response. Most 4-year-olds made this prediction, whereas most 3-year-olds did not. Performance was associated with the accuracy of children’s reports of their object name knowledge. Development of a representation of the disambiguation effect as a novelty contrast may depend on development of a tendency to represent familiar objects as “ones I know” and unfamiliar objects as “ones I don’t know.”
William Merriman (Advisor)
49 p.
Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psychology
disambiguation effect; metacognition; metalinguistic awareness; metacognitive representations

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  • Henning, K. J. (2018). The Development of a Metacognitive Disambiguation Effect: Novel Name Presentation Not Required [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532635695038685

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Henning, Kyle. The Development of a Metacognitive Disambiguation Effect: Novel Name Presentation Not Required . 2018. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532635695038685.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Henning, Kyle. "The Development of a Metacognitive Disambiguation Effect: Novel Name Presentation Not Required ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532635695038685

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