Transfer between Picture Books and the Real World by Very Young Children

Ganea, Patricia A.; Pickard, Megan Bloom; DeLoache, Judy S.

doi:10.1080/15248370701836592

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“…A total of 48 participants were included in the study, with 13 children in the youngest age group (range ϭ 15.4 -23.0 months, M ϭ 20.0, SD ϭ 2.4; nine girls), 20 children in the middle age group (range ϭ 24.0 -29.8 months, M ϭ 27.1, SD ϭ 2.1; 12 girls), and 15 children in the oldest age group (range ϭ 31.1-38.2 months, M ϭ 35.4, SD ϭ 2.0; seven girls). The age of the youngest group of participants (20-month-olds) was chosen to parallel the age of the 18-month-old infants who performed successfully on similar tasks in the United States (Ganea et al, 2008). An additional 12 children were tested but excluded from analyses.…”

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The role of symbol-based experience in early learning and transfer from pictures: Evidence from Tanzania.

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Ganea³

2013

Developmental Psychology

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Extensive exposure to representational media is common for infants in Western culture, and previous research has shown that soon after their 1st birthday, infants can acquire and extend new information from pictures to real objects. Here we explore the extent to which lack of exposure to pictures during infancy affects children's learning from pictures. Infants were recruited from a rural village in Tanzania and had no prior experience with pictures. After a picture book interaction during which a novel depicted object was labeled, we assessed infants' learning and transfer of the label from pictures to their referents. In a 2nd study, we assessed infants' learning and generalization of new names using real objects, rather than pictures. Tanzanian infants demonstrated a similar pattern of learning and generalization from real objects, when compared with infants in Western culture. However, there was a significant difference in learning and generalization from pictures to real objects. These findings provide evidence for the important role of early experience with representational media in children's ability to use pictures as a source of information about the world.

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“…For example, Ganea et al (2008) found that American infants as young as 15 months extend newly learned labels from realistic photographs to their real-world counterparts following a single picture book interaction. By 18 months, infants also generalize to new real-world exemplars of the depicted objects.…”

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The role of symbol-based experience in early learning and transfer from pictures: Evidence from Tanzania.

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Ganea³

2013

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“…Por el contrario, la metodología de Preissler y Carey (2004) se trataba de un entrenamiento exhaustivo, en el cual el nombre era presentado junto con la imagen en repetidas ocasiones y sin presencia de otras imágenes con sus respectivos nombres. Consideramos que este tipo de sesiones de entrenamiento no son usuales en la vida cotidiana de los niños, por lo tanto, podemos pensar que el procedimiento diseñado por Ganea et al (2008Ganea et al ( , 2009) y el utilizado en nuestra investigación tiene mayor validez ecológica.…”

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“…Los resultados que aquí presentamos son consecuentes con los hallazgos de diferentes investigaciones que destacan el gran efecto de la similitud perceptual en la comprensión simbólica de imágenes en niños hasta, por lo menos, los 30 meses de edad (Callaghan, 2000;Ganea et al, 2008;Simcock & DeLoache, 2006). Esta investigación pone de relieve que ciertas características de las imágenes pueden incidir en el establecimiento de la relación que las une con el objeto que representan.…”

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