Publications by authors named "Valerie R L Randle"
Article Synopsis
- The study involved 1- to 4-year-old children who were pre-trained with everyday objects and then trained to respond to two different words associated with arbitrary stimuli shapes.
- When tested, the majority of children struggled to correctly categorize the stimuli based on the provided samples, and many also failed to demonstrate corresponding speaking behaviors.
- Results indicate that while children can learn to respond as listeners, this does not automatically translate to them being able to categorize stimuli, suggesting that the ability to name objects may be essential for proper categorization.
In three experiments, 2- to 4-year-old children, following pretraining with everyday objects, were presented with arbitrary stimuli of differing shapes. In Experiment 1A, 9 subjects were trained one common tact response, "zag," to three of these and a second tact, "vek," to another three. In category match-to-sample Test 1, 4 subjects sorted accurately when required only to look at the sample before selecting from five comparisons.
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