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The Effect of Symbolic Distancing on Delay Tolerance across the Preschool Period
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Pecora, Giulia; Bellagamba, Francesca; Chiarotti, Flavia; Paoletti, Melania; Castano, Maria Letizia; Addessi, Elsa – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
We aimed to longitudinally examine how symbolic distancing affects preschool children's delay tolerance in a delay choice task. We presented children with choices between a smaller immediate reward and a larger delayed reward in conditions with either symbolic stimuli or edible rewards. Overall, symbolic distancing modulated children's delay…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Rewards, Food, Stimuli
The Effect of Parental Involvement and Encouragement on Preschool Children's Symbolic Play
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška; Podlesek, Anja – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The purpose of our study was to examine the ways in which parents engage in play with their children within the family context and to establish which parental play behaviour predicts the play behaviour of their children during interactive play with toys. The sample included 58 children from 2;6 to 6 years old and their parents. The parent-child…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Young Children
The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations about Pictures and Objects
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Gelman, Susan A.; Waxman, Sandra R.; Kleinberg, Felicia – Cognitive Development, 2008
Mother-child conversations about pictures systematically differ from mother-child conversations about objects: Pictures are more likely than objects to elicit talk about kinds, whereas objects are more likely than pictures to elicit talk about individuals. The purpose of the current study is to examine whether this difference between pictures and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Concept Formation, Child Development
Social and Cognitive Play Forms and Toy Use by Nonhandicapped and Handicapped Preschoolers.
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Johnson, James E.; Ershler, Joan L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1985
Social and cognitive values of different play materials for 21 normal and 21 handicapped preschool children were examined. Analyses showed that handicapped preschoolers exhibited comparable amounts of symbolic play but lower quality of symbolic play than that shown by nonhandicapped preschoolers. Symbolic play by handicapped children depended much…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Play, Preschool Education
Infants' Comprehension of Toy Replicas as Symbols for Real Objects
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Younger, Barbara A.; Johnson, Kathy E. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
Infants' understanding of "toy model-real exemplar" relations was assessed through preferential looking and habituation tasks. Results from the preferential looking task suggest that 18-month toddlers are just beginning to demonstrate comprehension of symbolic relations between iconic models and their real object counterparts. Performance of 10-…
Descriptors: Toys, Infants, Habituation, Toddlers
Physical Similarity and Young Children's Understanding of Scale Models.
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DeLoache, Judy S.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Tested understanding of correspondence on the part of 2.5- to 3.5-year olds who watched a toy hidden in a model and tried to find an analogous toy in a room. Retrieval scores increased with increasing model-room similarity; were higher for older than younger children; and were affected by object and size similarity. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Individual Development