Ellen Markman
American psychologist
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Ellen Markman's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ellen Markman is Lewis M. Terman Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She specializes in word learning and language development in children, focusing specifically on how children come to associate words with their meanings. Markman contends that in order to learn the meaning of a word, children make use of three basic principles: the whole object assumption , the taxonomic assumption , and the mutual exclusivity assumption . Related topics that Markman has studied include categorization and inductive reasoning in children and infants. Markman subscribes to the innatist school of developmental psychologists, which asserts that children possess innate knowledge that they draw upon in the process of language acquisition.
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