Referential Communication Accuracy between Mother and Child as a Predictor of Cognitive Development in the United States and Japan
1979; Wiley; Volume: 50; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1979.tb02979.x
ISSN1467-8624
AutoresW. Patrick Dickson, Robert D. Hess, Naomi Miyake, Hiroshi Azuma,
Tópico(s)Language Development and Disorders
ResumoDICKSON, W. PATRICK; HESS, ROBERT D.; MIYAKE, NAOMI; and AZUMA, HIROSHI. Referential Communication Accuracy between Mother and Child as a Predictor of Cognitive Development in the United States and Japan. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1979, 50, 53-59. Referential communication accuracy of mother-child pairs when children were 4 years old predicted children's cognitive development 1 and 2 years later in the United States and Japan. In a new communication task the mother described 1 of a set of 4 pictures and the child tried to choose the picture described. In the second half of the task, mother and child reversed speaker-listener roles. Communication accuracy for the pair was defined in terms of correctness of listener responses. Longitudinal measures of the child's cognitive development included standardized readiness and intelligence tests. The predictive relationship between communication accuracy and longitudinal measures remained significant in both cultures even when effects of mother IQ, SES, and child ability at age 4 were partialled out. Referential communication tasks provide a technique for measuring the accuracy of information exchange between parent and child. Research on communication accuracy between parent and child is important for understanding both the development of communication skills and effects of parent-child interaction on cognitive socialization of children.
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