Geometric maps as tools for different purposes in early childhood
| Autor: | Jimena Rodríguez, María Belén Gariboldi, Romina Vivaldi, Analía Marcela Salsa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Map making Space (commercial competition) computer.software_genre Referent 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Child Development Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Early childhood Orientation Spatial media_common business.industry 05 social sciences Process (computing) Comprehension Symbol Child Preschool Female Artificial intelligence business Psychology computer Natural language processing 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental child psychology. 186 |
| ISSN: | 1096-0457 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | This study examined whether and how young children make spontaneous use of geometric maps for two different purposes: to determine and to represent the locations of objects. A total of 64 2.5-, 3-, 3.5-, and 4-year-old children solved a task with two phases in counterbalanced order; they needed to use a map to locate a toy hidden in a referent space (retrieval) and to indicate on the symbol with a sticker the location of the hidden toy (map making). Results show that there is a clear developmental progression, with 2.5-year-olds failing both phases, 3- and 3.5-year-olds succeeding only in the map making phase, and 4-year-olds succeeding in both the map making and retrieval phases. The differences between making use of maps to represent locations and locating objects in space allow for a closer comprehension of map reading as a progressive sequenced process and the factors at play as children develop symbolic understanding. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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