Journal article
Transfer by very young children in the symbolic retrieval task
Child Development, Vol.75(6), pp.1708-1718
2004
Abstract
Cumulative experience with a variety of symbolic artifacts has been hypothesized as a source of young children's increasing sensitivity to new symbol-referent relations. Evidence for this hypothesis comes from transfer studies showing that experience with a relatively easy symbolic retrieval task improves performance on a more difficult task. Significant transfer was found for the 21/2 -year-old children in the 3 studies reported here, even with relatively low levels of contextual support (according to the taxonomy of transfer by Barnett & Ceci, 2002). Transfer occurred even though the 2 tasks were encountered in very different settings and there was a prolonged (1-week) delay interval between them. Transfer also occurred to a much more difficult task (one that even 3-year-olds typically fail).
Details
- Title
- Transfer by very young children in the symbolic retrieval task
- Authors
- Judy S DeLoache (Author) - University of Virginia, United StatesGabrielle Simcock (Author) - University of Virginia, United StatesDonald P Marzolf (Author) - Maine Township High School District, United States
- Publication details
- Child Development, Vol.75(6), pp.1708-1718
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Date published
- 2004
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00811.x
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451323102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Psychology, Developmental
- Psychology, Educational