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Perseverant responding in children's picture naming*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2008

JOSEPHINE BOOTH  and
MELANIE VITKOVITCH
JOSEPHINE BOOTH
Affiliation:
University of East London
MELANIE VITKOVITCH*
Affiliation:
University of East London
*
Address for correspondence: Melanie Vitkovitch, School of Psychology, University of East London, Romford Road, London, E15 4LZ
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Abstract

Two groups of children were given pictures of animals to name as quickly as they could. The groups comprised 40 nursery aged children (mean age 3 ; 11) and 40 Year 2 children (mean age 6 ; 9) attending primary school in London. The 30 animals were presented one by one, on cards, and any errors made by the children were noted. Consistent with a similar object naming study with adults (Vitkovitch, Kirby & Tyrrell, 1996) and a study with children (Gershkoff-Stowe, 2002), picture naming errors referred to earlier named objects. However, while adults showed below-chance interference from objects that had only just been named (Lag 1), children were most susceptible to interference from very recently named objects (see also Gershkoff-Stowe, 2002). Furthermore, the proportion of younger children making Lag 1 errors was higher than the proportion of older children making Lag 1 errors. The results are discussed in relation to the activation levels of lexical representations.

Type
Brief Research Report
Information
Journal of Child Language , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 235 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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