PSYC 4364 Lecture 12: Papers 11-8
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Indicators were learner variables (such as books), parental involvement in learning, parental verbal responsiveness. If you weren"t looking at your child, were they looking at you they can share meaning with a parent precursor. Low ses families not as active with kids at that age. Note low ses is low income by education. If we know that babies at 9 months have shared attention, later on. Lack of education and resources puts kids as risk, not race. Fernald paper: kids going into kindergarten have lower levels of language with lower ses, looked at 18 month olds learning english, 6 different ethnicities, low ses and high ses. Used 3 different scales to measure, including vocab inventory and direct look at child following attention. Moms need to do things that promote infant ability to learn vocab and just talking to the child isn"t enough: nature of speech is important negatively valenced words are higher in low.
