TY - JOUR
T1 - A Semantic Congruity Effect in Children's Acquisition of High and Low
AU - Ryalls, Brigette Oliver
AU - Winslow, Emily
AU - Smith, Linda B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank William Petrusic and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Portions of this research were presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, 1993. The completion of this research was supported in part by PHS Grant 1 F31 MH10403-01 SRCM-C.
PY - 1998/11
Y1 - 1998/11
N2 - The Semantic Congruity Effect (SCE) is the finding that children and adults asked to compare pairs of objects drawn from a series perform better when the direction of comparison coincides with the location of the objects in the series. Experiment 1 confirmed that this effect is due to an understanding of the dimension words involved and not to general perceptual strategies by varying the words used to ask about the same stimuli (i.e.:higher/lowervsover/under). Experiment 2 examined children's understanding ofhigher/lowerand found that the SCE could be reduced or enhanced by altering the stimulus context. Theoretical explanations are discussed.
AB - The Semantic Congruity Effect (SCE) is the finding that children and adults asked to compare pairs of objects drawn from a series perform better when the direction of comparison coincides with the location of the objects in the series. Experiment 1 confirmed that this effect is due to an understanding of the dimension words involved and not to general perceptual strategies by varying the words used to ask about the same stimuli (i.e.:higher/lowervsover/under). Experiment 2 examined children's understanding ofhigher/lowerand found that the SCE could be reduced or enhanced by altering the stimulus context. Theoretical explanations are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1006/jmla.1998.2594
DO - 10.1006/jmla.1998.2594
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040163861
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 39
SP - 543
EP - 557
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
IS - 4
ER -