Toddlers show high sensitivity to creator's intention when they interpret pictures. Previous research suggest that toddlers' performance can be facilitated in a picture comprehension task by making available the creator's intention that is, the social origin of picture‐creation. The present study aims to test the generalizability of this facilitative effect in two very young age groups (24‐ and 26‐month‐olds). In order to test how toddlers generalize their knowledge, we introduced a treatment in which the creator was intentionally drawing objects and a completely different test context with a retrieval task. The results suggest that two‐year‐olds can transfer their socially mediated knowledge of pictures to a novel problem solving test situation and contextualize pictures that does not contain any social cues.

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了解创作者的意图有助于24岁和26岁的孩子使用图片媒介信息作为行动指南

幼儿在解释图片时表现出对创作者意图的高度敏感性。先前的研究表明，通过使创作者的意图即创造图片的社会根源可用，在图片理解任务中可以促进幼儿的表现。本研究旨在测试在两个非常年轻的年龄组（24和26个月大）中这种促进作用的一般性。为了测试幼儿如何概括他们的知识，我们引入了一种处理方法，其中创建者有意地绘制对象和带有检索任务的完全不同的测试环境。结果表明，两岁儿童可以将他们在社交媒体上获得的图片知识转移到一种新颖的解决测试情况的​​问题上，并将没有任何社交线索的图片背景化。