TV guide: two-year-old children learn to use video as a source of information.

Full Abstract

Learning to use symbols is a challenge for young children even when the symbol in question (e.g., a live video image) is iconic and seems transparent to adults. This research examined the effect of experience on children's use of video-presented information. Two-year-old children saw themselves "live" on their family television for 2 weeks and then participated in an object-retrieval task. The children reliably used a live video presentation of an adult hiding a toy in an adjoining room to find the toy. Most also transferred what they learned to a task involving another symbol (pictures) that typically is very difficult for this age group. The results reveal flexibility in 2-year-olds' symbol use that follows from successful representation of a symbolic relation.

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Author information

Author/s: Troseth, Georgene L (GL);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA. georgene.troseth(-atsign-)vanderbilt.edu

Grants: HD-25271 (Agency:NICHD NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Developmental psychology (Dev Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 39 (issue 1) : pp 140-50

Dates: Created 2003/01/09; Completed 2003/04/22; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 12518815, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Humans
Learning
Male
Television

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