What do toddlers learn from everyday picture-book reading interactions? To date, there has been scant research exploring this question. In this study, the authors adapted a standard imitation procedure to examine 18- to 30-month-olds’ ability to learn how to reenact a novel action sequence from a picture book. The results provide evidence that toddlers can imitate specific target actions on novel real-world objects on the basis of a picture-book interaction. Children’s imitative performance after the reading interaction varied both as a function of age and the level of iconicity of the pictures in the book. These findings are discussed in terms of children’s emerging symbolic capacity and the flexibility of the cognitive representation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Simcock, Gabrielle; DeLoache, Judy
Developmental Psychology. 2006 Nov Vol 42(6) 1352-1357
What do toddlers learn from everyday picture-book reading interactions? To date, there has been scant research exploring this question. In this study, the authors adapted a standard imitation procedure to examine 18- to 30-month-olds’ ability to learn how to reenact a novel action sequence from a picture book. The results provide evidence that toddlers can imitate specific target actions on novel real-world objects on the basis of a picture-book interaction. Children’s imitative performance after the reading interaction varied both as a function of age and the level of iconicity of the pictures in the book. These findings are discussed in terms of children’s emerging symbolic capacity and the flexibility of the cognitive representation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Simcock, Gabrielle; DeLoache, Judy
Developmental Psychology. 2006 Nov Vol 42(6) 1352-1357
