Child Development · 1974 · 12 citations · 1 references
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STEINBERG, BRENDA M. Information Processing in the Third Year: Coding, Memory, Transfer. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1974, 45, 503-507. Children 24-36 months old were studied in an effort to examine the influence of cognitive development on the nature of information extracted from stimuli and coded into memory. It was found that children beyond 28 months, but not before, are able to respond with recognition to a previously discriminated stimulus in the face of perceptual transformation. Children below 28 months easily remembered and recognized a re-presented stimulus for as long as 45 minutes, but they did not transfer their recognition response to an altered vision. It was concluded that the evolution of symbolic processes during the third year of life affects not the retention of information but coding. The younger children in this study appeared to code perceptual, and the older children conceptual, characteristics of the stimuli.
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