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Naturalistic Experience and the Early Use of Symbolic Artifacts

Naturalistic Experience and the Early Use of Symbolic Artifacts Experience with a variety of symbolic artifacts has been proposed as a mechanism underlying symbolic development. In this study, the parents of 120 2-year-old children who participated in symbolic object retrieval tasks completed a questionnaire regarding their children's naturalistic experience with symbolic artifacts and activities. In separate regressions predicting children's use of video and pictures for information in experimental tasks, predictor variables such as children's exposure to live video and their emerging understanding of graphic representation were significant, even after accounting for the effects of children's vocabulary and birth order and parents' education and occupation. The results support the role of experience in children's early detection of symbolic relations. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cognition and Development Taylor & Francis

Naturalistic Experience and the Early Use of Symbolic Artifacts

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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1532-7647
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1524-8372
DOI
10.1080/15248370701446772
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Abstract

Experience with a variety of symbolic artifacts has been proposed as a mechanism underlying symbolic development. In this study, the parents of 120 2-year-old children who participated in symbolic object retrieval tasks completed a questionnaire regarding their children's naturalistic experience with symbolic artifacts and activities. In separate regressions predicting children's use of video and pictures for information in experimental tasks, predictor variables such as children's exposure to live video and their emerging understanding of graphic representation were significant, even after accounting for the effects of children's vocabulary and birth order and parents' education and occupation. The results support the role of experience in children's early detection of symbolic relations.

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Journal of Cognition and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis

Published: Aug 10, 2007

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