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

Frontiers in Psychology

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Daniela Jauck¹  Olga Peralta¹ 

[1] Instituto Rosario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación;Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI)

关键词: symbolic use;    images;    tablet;    means of communication;    sources of information;    2-year-old children;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02891

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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 was transferred to the Point task, task which 2-year-olds otherwise fail.

【 授权许可】

CC BY