PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Research Question, Communication, Language Module

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7 Apr 2016
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Research question: does children"s engagement with fantasy worlds advance their. Why would the authors think that these might be related: need hypothetical thinking to engage in fantasy world, very related to thinking abstractly and thinking what other people"s perspectives. Fantasy engagement measures: interviews about fantasy engagement, interviewed parents about how much kids like fantasy, ask kids to identify fantasy characteristics. Kids ability to talk about characteristics in stories: behavioral vs mentalistic. Engagement in fantasy did predict how well they did in theory of mind tasks: didn"t have anything to do with mentalistic descriptions. Give an example of the quinean . Identify and give examples of six parts of language. Individual differences: children don"t make achievements at the same time. Active child: how child takes charge of his/her own development. Other animals have language, but human language is special for a number of reasons. Doesn"t always carry meaning: ex. the sound k .

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