How do children come to understand that pictures and models are symbols for other things?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: In various studies, 2- and 3-year old children are asked to find a toy hidden in a room. Before searching for the object, they are shown a picture or scale model of the room, with the location of the hidden object made obvious in the picture or model. Children are then asked to find the toy in the room. After searching for the toy in the room, they return to the model and are asked to find where the miniature toy was hidden. If children cannot find the large toy in the room but can find the miniature toy in the scale model, then their failure to find the large toy cannot be because they forgot where the miniature toy was hidden. A better interpretation would be that the children cannot use the model in a symbolic fashion.
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