Testing a word is not a test of word learning
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Testing a word is not a test of word learning.
Although vocabulary acquisition requires children learn names for multiple things, many investigations of word learning mechanisms teach children the name for only one of the objects presented. This is problematic because it is unclear whether children's performance reflects recall of the correct name-object association or simply selection of the only object that was singled out by being the on...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Psychologica
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0001-6918
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.07.002