(1) According to Markman and Wachtel, children assume that nouns pick out mutually exclusive object categories, and so each object should have only one category label.
(2) The Markman-Hutchinson interpretation of the shift effect is unsatisfactory in two respects: (1) the shift effect can be explained without attributing any knowledge of what a word is to either creature, child or ape; more important (2), the interpretation does not address the main question: what is a "name" and what does a child think it is?
(3) In light of these failures to replicate and the considerable variation in cognitive level among preschoolers, it is suggested that Markman's findings of a facilitative effect of collection labels on conservation and cardinality problems may have resulted from the use of small sample sizes and between-subject designs.
(4) In the present study, we applied the Markman et al.
(5) 3 experiments were carried out to assess Markman's hypothesis that the organizational principles underlying collection concepts facilitate children's performance on cognitive tasks requiring part-whole comparisons.
(6) Markman speculated that it was a generational issue.
(7) Both experiments failed to replicate Markman's findings.
(8) Markman and Hutchinson (1984) claim this demonstrates that young children know that words are "names of object categories" (and that this knowledge protects them against false hypotheses, facilitating their acquisition of words).
(9) Producer Seth Markman, who oversees the channel's coverage of the draft, told the Associated Press: "We never had one discussion about: 'What if he's drafted, his partner's there and they kiss?'
Marksman
Definition:
(n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
(n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(2) A former Navy Seal who went on to write a bestselling book chronicling his life as the US's most prolific marksman has been shot dead at a gun range in Texas .
(3) He added: "If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it's built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman.
(4) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(5) Duggan’s death on 4 August 2011 at the hands of a police marksman triggered riots across the capital in which shops were looted, buildings set alight and standoffs with police occurred.
(6) Another player hoping to head to Germany to revive a career is Tottenham’s anti-marksman Roberto Soldado who is hoping the goals in the Bundesliga are a foot wider and are hung 20 foot up in the air so he might find them more often.
(7) For him, it was Ian Wright, and he still seems a little starry-eyed when he recounts how he signed for West Ham at the age of 16, and Wright took the time to stay behind after training to practise drills with him, and pass on tips designed to hone a marksman's eye and develop his cunning.
(8) "I didn't want to personalise [the tragedy] and blame the marksman.
(9) On Sunday, exactly a month later, both arrived together at the the Zeinhom morgue – but this time Fahmy was dead in a battered brown coffin, shot through his right temple by a police marksman, after a night-time pro-Morsi march on Saturday morning turned into a massacre.
(10) They also said the marksman’s mistaken belief that Duggan had a gun should have meant the jury were told not to conclude the killing was lawful unless they also concluded the mistake was reasonable.
(11) Shooting a suspect in the arm or the leg would be difficult for John Wayne, never mind the most skilled marksman on the force, said Candace McCoy , a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
(12) But Liverpool, sharper in all facets than of late and showing the obvious benefit of a proven marksman in their ranks, held firm to release some of the pressure on Rodgers.
(13) Duggan was shot by a Scotland Yard marksman after armed officers stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011, sparking riots across England.
(14) The marksman was granted anonymity because of fears of reprisals and was known at inquest into the death only as V53.
(15) In January, an inquest jury decided Duggan was not holding a gun when shot by police but also found the decision by marksman "V53" to open fire was lawful.
(16) Some sources suggested it was a Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a marksman on the roof of a nearby house.
(17) A jury at the inquest into the 29-year-old's death found he had been killed lawfully by a police marksman, despite also finding that he was not carrying a gun when he was shot.
(18) When they were on the pavement, a police marksman immediately jumped out from behind the bus.
(19) An inquest jury this month found he was lawfully killed by a police marksman despite being unarmed when he was shot.
(20) If Agüero appeared every inch the expert marksman as he toe-poked Navas’s deflected left-wing cross into the roof of the net from close range, Billy Jones looked a thoroughly wrong-footed right back.