Mitchell and Robinson (1994) Investigated the Relation Between Children's Ability

Mitchell and Robinson (1994) investigated the relation between children's ability to evaluate a discrepant utterance and an ambiguous message. They found that:

A) Being able to evaluate a discrepant utterance developmentally precedes being able to detect ambiguity
B) Children aged 5 years were surprisingly effective at detecting ambiguity
C) Children begin to give appropriate evaluations of ambiguous and discrepant messages from about the age of 7 years
D) Evaluating a discrepant message is just as difficult as evaluating an ambiguous message
E) Evaluating a discrepant message is more difficult than evaluating an ambiguous message