CFD 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Logical Reasoning, Intersubjectivity, Egocentrism

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 3250
• Professor: Victoria Voland

Document Summary

Piaget"s preoperational stage: ages 2 to 7, sensorimotor activity leads to internal images of experience; which children then label with words, advances in mental representation, development of make-believe play, gains in understanding of symbol real-world relations. Development of make-believe: with growing symbolic mastery, play, detaches from real-life conditions associated with it, becomes less self-centered, includes more complex combinations of schemes, by the end of the second year, children engage in sociodramatic play with peers. Benefits of make-believe: leads to gains in social competence, strengthens cognitive capacities, sustained attention, inhibition of impulses, memory, logical reasoning, language and literacy, imagination, creativity, perspective taking. Limitations of preoperational thought: egocentrism, animistic thinking. Inability to conserve: centration, irreversibility, lack of hierarchical classification. Egocentric and animistic thinking: egocentrism, animistic thinking, failure to distinguish others" symbolic viewpoints from one"s own, demonstrated by piaget"s three-mountains problem, belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, magical thinking: assigning human purposes to physical events.