Developing Symbolic Capacity One Step at a Time

Autor/inn/en	Huttenlocher, Janellen; Vasilyeva, Marina; Newcombe, Nora; Duffy, Sean
Titel	Developing Symbolic Capacity One Step at a Time
Quelle	In: Cognition, 106 (2008) 1, S.1-12 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.006
Schlagwörter	Object Permanence; Play; Scaling; Models; Young Children; Cognitive Development; Symbolic Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Objektpermanenz; Spiel; Scale construction; Skalenkonstruktion; Analogiemodell; Frühe Kindheit; Kognitive Entwicklung; Symboldidaktik
Abstract	The present research examines the ability of children as young as 4 years to use models in tasks that require scaling of distance along a single dimension. In Experiment 1, we found that tasks involving models are similar in difficulty to those involving maps that we studied earlier (Huttenlocher, J., Newcombe, N., & Vasilyeva, M. (1999). Spatial scaling in young children. "Psychological Science, 10," 393-398). In Experiment 2, we found that retrieval tasks, where children indicate the location of a hidden object in an actual space are substantially more difficult than placement tasks, where children put a visible object in a particular location in an actual space. We discuss possible implications of the differential difficulty of retrieval and placement tasks for the understanding of symbolic development. (Author).
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