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Transfer of learning between 2D and 3D sources during infancy: Informing theory and practice
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The ability to transfer learning across contexts is an adaptive skill that develops rapidly during early childhood. Learning from television is a specific instance of transfer of learning between a 2-Dimensional (2D) representation and a 3-Dimensional (3D) object. Understanding the conditions under which young children might accomplish this particular kind of transfer is important because by 2 years of age 90% of US children are viewing television on a daily basis. Recent research shows that children can imitate actions presented on television using the corresponding real-world objects, but this same research also shows that children learn less from television than they do from live demonstrations until they are at least 3 years old; termed the video deficit effect. At present, there is no coherent theory to account for the video deficit effect; how learning is disrupted by this change in context is poorly understood. The aims of the present review are (1) to review the conditions under which children transfer learning between 2D images and 3D objects during early childhood, and (2) to integrate developmental theories of memory processing into the transfer of learning from media literature using Hayne's (2004) developmental representational flexibility account. The review will conclude that studies on the transfer of learning between 2D and 3D sources have important theoretical implications for general developmental theories of cognitive development, and in particular the development of a flexible representational system, as well as policy implications for early education regarding the potential use and limitations of media as effective teaching tools during early childhood.
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- Barr, R.
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- Georgetown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Barr, Rachel
- ORCID
- Barr, Rachel
- Venue
- Developmental Review
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- 2010-06
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- 128-154
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- 0273-2297 (ISSN-L)
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- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
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- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- transfer of learning, television learning, representational flexibility, memory processes, imitation, early childhood, early childhood education policy
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