Two-Year-Olds' Symbolic Use of Images Provided by a Tablet: A Transfer Study.

ABSTRACT: Touch screen devices are nowadays part of everyday life and parents and educators assume that young children use their images in a symbolic way. This research aims at replicating and expanding a previous one that reported that, contrary to expectations and to studies with printed or video images, 2-year-old children used the images on a touch screen tablet to retrieve a hidden object (Search), but not to communicate the location of an object they have observed being hidden (Point). In this research, we carried out a transfer study comparing the performance of an Experimental (Search-Point) and a Control group (Point-Point). First, we found that the Experimental group outperformed the Control group. Second, we found that the successful symbolic previous experience gained in the Search tasks

SUBMITTER: Jauck D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6932993 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature