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Marzolf, 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
Sigel, Irving – 1968
Representational competence refers to the individual's capability to respond appropriately to external representations. For example, a child engaged in a grouping task may collect together all like objects even if the group contains varying representations of the object, including (1) the object itself, (2) a three-dimensional likeness of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Classification