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Compliance and Comprehension in Very Young Toddlers
Author(s) -
Kaler Sandra R.,
Kopp Claire B.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb03581.x
Subject(s) - comprehension , psychology , compliance (psychology) , developmental psychology , context (archaeology) , coding (social sciences) , social psychology , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , paleontology , mathematics , biology
We studied the relation of compliance with comprehension in 30 toddlers, 10 each at 12–13, 14–16, and 17–18 months of age. Requests, using preselected words, were made to children in the context of a naturalistic and pleasant play situation in a quasilaboratory setting. Detailed coding systems were used to define comprehension, compliance, and patterns of compliance‐comprehension, noncompliance‐comprehension, compliance‐noncomprehension, and noncompliance‐noncomprehension at each age period. Findings indicated significant shifts in the categories of compliance‐comprehension and noncompliance‐noncomprehension across the 3 ages, with the most striking change occurring between 14–16 and 17–18 months. Implications of the data are discussed.