Self-study
In a recent study, a group of young children were taught the word "stairs" while walking up and down a flight of stairs. █████ ████ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ████ █████ █ █████ ██ █ ██████ ████████ █ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ██████ ███████
Summary
A study examined a group of children who were taught the word “stairs” while walking up and down stairs. The children were later shown a video of someone climbing a ladder. All the children referred to the ladder as stairs.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Children who learned to associate a word with an activity may erroneously associate the same word with a similar-looking activity.
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This is unsupported because the children in the study saw the object denoted by the word as they were walking up and down stairs.
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This is unsupported because we don’t know if there isn’t a better way of teaching children words. The stimulus only discussed one method without comparing it to any other method.
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This is unsupported because we aren’t told if children who were younger at the time of the experiment were more or less likely to misapply the word to the ladder.
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This is strongly supported because the children who learned the word “stairs” by observing walking up and down stairs applied that word to the ladder when a similar activity was being performed.
e
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This is unsupported because we don’t know if the method used in the study was best. The author never compared that method to any other method of teaching children words.