PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lev Vygotsky, Wish Fulfillment, Deductive Reasoning
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Preschool age (10 months to 4 years) due jan 27. Child understands the world through overt and sensory actions. We can remember objects, events and ideas in our head. Remember action or sensation the infant has about the ball. Representational thought language is a representational system and may be one of the most important ones for child cognitive dev. but not the only one. Three occur at the same time: below. Allow the child to think independent of the object there but it is so unique to a child that it is(cid:374)"t helpful in communication. They are directly related to what they represent. (ex hubcaps and cars: words. Have very little to do with what they represent. Sound of the word rarely related to what that word represents. Useful for communication although sounds not directly related to what it is. Onomatopoeia words that sound like what they mean.
