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Rapid Change in the Symbolic Functioning of Very Young Children
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A remarkable difference in the understanding of the symbolic relation between a scale model and the larger space that it represented was displayed by two age groups of young children. Three-year-old children who observed an object being hidden in a model knew where to find an analogous object hidden in the corresponding location in a room, but 2.5-year-old children did not. The success of the group of older children reveals an advance in their cognitive flexibility: they think of a model in two ways at the same time--both as the thing itself and as a symbol for something else.
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- DeLoache, J. S.
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- Science
- Published
- 1987-12-11
- Volume
- 238
- Issue
- 4833
- Pages
- 1556-1557
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2073722943
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- en
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