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Publication Date: 2020
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Understanding the Creator's Intention Helps 24- and 26-Month-Olds Use Picture Mediated Information as a Guide for Action
Szalai, Gerda; Egyed, Katalin
Infant and Child Development, v29 n5 e2195 Sep-Oct 2020
Toddlers show high sensitivity to creator's intention when they interpret pictures. Previous research suggest that toddlers' performance can be facilitated in a picture comprehension task by making available the creator's intention that is, the social origin of picture-creation. The present study aims to test the generalizability of this facilitative effect in two very young age groups (24- and 26-month-olds). In order to test how toddlers generalize their knowledge, we introduced a treatment in which the creator was intentionally drawing objects and a completely different test context with a retrieval task. The results suggest that two-year-olds can transfer their socially mediated knowledge of pictures to a novel problem solving test situation and contextualize pictures that does not contain any social cues.
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis, Generalization, Transfer of Training, Cues, Social Cognition, Problem Solving, Intention, Cognitive Ability
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Language: English
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