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Peer reviewedMarzolf, Donald P.; DeLoache, Judy S. – Child Development, 1994
In 3 studies, 2.5- and 3-year-olds transferred knowledge from an easy task that required appreciation of a symbolic relation to a more difficult task involving a symbolic relation that children their age typically do not appreciate. Results support the theory that young children use insight into one symbolic relation to understand other symbolic…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Spatial Ability
Peer reviewedUttal, David; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Toddlers were asked to find a hidden toy based on one hidden in a scale model of the room, after varying periods of delay. Subjects experiencing a longer delay on the first trial performed more poorly than those experiencing the long delay later in the trials. Results indicate the difficulty for children of keeping a symbol-referent relation in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Recall (Psychology), Short Term Memory
