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tentative explanation could be that children from the Black group could have possibly known
the picture, but chose not to name it, for fear of the bad omen.
The results shown in Table 16 indicate the mean number of small pictures correctly
identified, stimuli identified, descriptive words, descriptive sentences and pronouns elicited
from the large revised SA and UK pictures, for each two-month age group for the Black pre-
schoolers of sample 1 and 2.
Table 16
The responses given to the small and large revised SA and UK pictures for each two-month
age interval for the Black pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2
AGE SMALL
PICT-
URES
Two-month
interval
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2
LARGE SA PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
SMALL
PICT-
URES
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
LARGE UK PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
60-61 16 19 0 1 0 15 13 2 0 0
62-63 14 14 1 1 0 14 13 0 1 1
64-65 15 15 1 1 0 16 14 1 1 0
66-67 16 16 0 1 0 14 20 3 2 0
68-69 13 15 1 1 0 15 13 1 2 0
70-71 15 15 2 4 1 15 17 3 5 2
72-73 15 14 1 0 0 15 11 0 1 0
74-75 17 18 2 3 1 17 16 1 2 0
76-77 16 14 2 1 0 15 18 6 3 0
78-79 17 17 2 3 1 17 18 3 3 1
80-81 17 20 2 2 1 18 20 3 2 1
82-83 - - - - - - - - - -
The highest mean number of correctly identified small revised pictures occurred
amongst the older children in both samples. Regarding the large revised SA and UK
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
pictures, and the two-month age intervals of the Black pre-schoolers, a diverse array of the