EDS200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parenting Styles, Birth Order, Pragmatics
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Today we will play a game so you can all see what i"m looking for in your class games. Question: three year old maya trips and falls while getting on the school bus. She reasons that the school bus tripped her because it was angry that she arrived late at her stop. Answer: animism; maya believes that an inanimate object (the bus) has the lifelike quality of anger and is capable of performing the action of tripping her. Maya is using her large muscles as she is walking and therefore is developing her gross motor skills. He speaks to his parents politely and formally but talks to his younger brother using shorter sentences. Answer: pragmatics; ben is learning to change his speech to suit the context he is in. Question: tommy, a kindergarten student, is having trouble zipping up his jacket.
