... children were asked to carry out two tasks. One of the task was to visualise the display and reproduce it. The other task was to reproduce it but in reverse order. This being the transposition task . This task consisted of the symbolic mode as children had to think about how to rearrange the display. The reproduction task involved the iconic mode as children could see and visualise the display. The findings showed that overall the children could reproduce the display before they could transpose it. The transposition task was done by 79% of seven year olds. However, none of the five year olds could do this task. The results also showed that 60% of five year olds and 80% of seven year olds could do the reproduction task. Overall, this suggests that out of the two tasks, transposition was harder to do. Also that iconic mode does come before the symbolic ...

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