Mitchell and Robinson (1994) Investigated the Relation Between Children's Ability

question 3

Multiple Choice

Mitchell and Robinson (1994) investigated the relation between children's ability to evaluate a discrepant utterance and an ambiguous message. They found that:

• A)Being able to evaluate a discrepant utterance developmentally precedes being able to detect ambiguity
• B)Children aged 5 years were surprisingly effective at detecting ambiguity
• C)Children begin to give appropriate evaluations of ambiguous and discrepant messages from about the age of 7 years
• D)Evaluating a discrepant message is just as difficult as evaluating an ambiguous message
• E)Evaluating a discrepant message is more difficult than evaluating an ambiguous message

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