The first three trials in each block cor responded to three different warm-up filler pictures that appeared with unrelated distractor words.
Each warm-up trial asked children to evaluate a picture that ' another child made ' when given the statement read by the experimenter.
The warm-up story was not subsequently coded for narrative content.
The warm-up task was altered to avoid a bias to replace either the first or the second noun in the compound.
The warm-up was also designed to eliminate any children who were unable to follow the directions by erring on 2 of 3 trials.
Five pictures were used in the warm-up phase and 12 were used in the experimental phase.
After the warm-up the experimenter asked the child to look through the book, page by page.
This may be left as a warm-up exercise for the reader.
