EDP 3326 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Dual Representation, Lev Vygotsky, Discovery Learning

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDP 3326
• Professor: Janet Bagby

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Describe advances in mental representation during the preschool years, including changes in make-believe play. Language is most flexible means of mental representation. He believed that sensorimotor activity leads to internal images of experience, which children then label with words. Make-believe play: excellent example of development o representation in early childhood, three changes that reflect the preschool child"s growing mastery. Play detached from the real-life conditions associated with it. Starting out, make-believe is directed toward self. Make-believe becomes less self-centered as children realize that agents and recipients of pretend actions can be independent of themselves. Play includes more complex combinations of schemes. Sociodramatic play- the make-believe play with others that is under way by the end of the second year and increases rapidly in complexity during. Describe what piaget believed to be the deficiencies of preoperational thought. Young children are not capable of operations- mental actions that obey logical rules.