Know About The 'Blowfish Effect'

Have you ever heard about what is blowfish effect? Sounds interesting right, as the name suggests it is related with young children’s. This explains the process of young minds that how new vocabulary in light of existing knowledge forms and children also learn new words like adults.
It suggests that even young children know about what typical fishes or cats or dogs look like and these young minds apply that knowledge when they hear certain new words. This study was reported by a team at the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers studied how babies enable themselves to learn to see, talk and also understand the world.
There were several experiments that were done among children’s of 3 to 5 years old, the researchers further found that when children are learning some new nouns, they observe things and use the knowledge what they know about those objects, if looked upon this one can easily predict that how typical or unusual it is that these children use what they see to figure out what the word means. Earlier it was known that this type of sophisticated reasoning is present only in adults and is known to develop later. The research works of this study appeared in the current issue published in the Journal of Child Language.
Adele Goldberg, professor of psychology at Princeton University and the senior author on the paper said that whatever we show reflects the fact that meaning matters a lot, he also confirmed the above mentioned fact that children are considering into account whenever they learn any new words.
For all this the researchers coined this tactic known as "blowfish effect." It is further known that if a child sees a blowfish (or a greyhound or an unusual tropical flower) and learns a new word to go with it, they will ultimately assume it and refers to specific types of objects.
The study is known to find and has shed lights on many mysteries and intricacies of language development according to Emberson.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190729144922.htm