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Psychological Science and Education
2008. Vol. 13, no. 1, 50–57
ISSN: 1814-2052 / 2311-7273 (online)

Features of Symbolic Mediation in Early School-Age Children

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A.N. Veraksa

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Abstract

The paper discusses the problem of the correlation between symbolic and sign mediation. The study involved 87 early school-age children and showed that the specificity of symbolic mediation is determined by the replacement of orientation in reality with orientation in the characteristics of a symbol, the latter helping the child to interpret concrete situations. The study also revealed that children use symbolic mediation in cognitive situations with a high degree of ambiguity.

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Keywords: symbolic mediation, sign mediation, orientation

Journal rubric: Educational Psychology

For citation: Veraksa A.N. Features of Symbolic Mediation in Early School-Age Children. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie = Psychological Science and Education, 2008. Vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 50–57. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Aleksandr N. Veraksa, Doctor of Psychology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Неad of the Laboratory of Childhood Psychology and Digital Socialization, Federal Scientific Center of Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of the Moscow State University Publishing House, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6080, e-mail: veraksa@yandex.ru

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