PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Imaginary Friend, Johan Svendsen, Vocal Tract
12 Jul 2018
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Imaginary friend - must have own personality and consciousness. Incorporate myth into play: highly and imaginative and creative, explain events as magical, do not differ from non-ic children in number of real friends (in kids under 10, positive play experiences, varying status: child interview. Facilitates understanding that their internal world is private: ascribe less knowledge of their internal states (dreaming feeling ill) to adults, ascribe more self-knowledge to themselves. Ic status is associates with better understanding of others beliefs. Language: boulden et al. (2002): children with ics asked to tell a story about a monster. Ic children: relative clauses: the monster that eats dinosaurs, adverbial clauses: the monster ate the dinosaurs whilst standing on one leg, trionfi and reese (2009): narrative (story telling) Sequential (linear) plot: cohesive, children with ics produced better quality past-event narrative and. Increases social experience: creativity, pretence is a form of creativity, hoff (2005): found that children with ics scored higher on.
