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Pamela Blewitt

Dr. Blewitt is a Professor of Psychology at Villanova. She has co-authored a text on lifespan human development and is Past-President of the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children.  

 

Nicole Sorhagen

Nicole is a completing a master's thesis on the "slow-mapping" of word meanings - the gradual enrichment of word meaning over time - as a function of social class, age, and vocabulary size. Nicole is a graduate of Bloomsburg University, with a Bachelors in Psychology.

 

Ryan Langan

Ryan is beginning a master's thesis on the kinds of input that are most effective for young children's word learning, especially the learning of synonyms. Ryan received a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Scranton.

 

Meredith Henry

Meredith is beginning a master's thesis examining young children's understanding of words referring to morality and moral emotions, such as "guilt" and "shame."  Meredith graduated from Samford University with a Bachelors in Psychology.

 

Travis Nichols

Travis is the Early Child Development Lab coordinator, and he is conducting independent research investigating young children's understanding of words as categorical labels. Travis is a second year graduate student with a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Brigham Young University.

 

 

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