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Homer, Bruce D.; Petroff, Natalya; Hayward, Elizabeth O. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
The effects of language on symbolic functioning were examined using the "boxes task," a new symbolic understanding task based on DeLoache's model task. Children ("N" = 32; ages 2;4--3;8) observed an object being hidden in a stack of four boxes and were then asked to retrieve a similar object in the same location from a set of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Usage, Age Differences, Verbal Ability