Author:
MAAS FAY K.,ABBEDUTO LEONARD
Abstract
In her inceptive study of promising, Astington (1988) found that
five-year-olds
failed to distinguish promises from predictions when judging
story characters' utterances. Instead, their responses were based
on
whether the promised event had actually occurred. There is reason to
believe, however, that the children's poor performance was an artefact
of
Astington's procedures. We tested this possibility with 32 children
(mean age 5;8: range 5;7–6;2) by including several variations of
Astington's procedures, but found no effects on the pattern of results.
This suggests that Astington's findings are an accurate reflection
of the
developmental course of knowledge about promising.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Language and Linguistics
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