HDFS 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Animism, Magical Thinking, Logical Reasoning
20 Sep 2016
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Sensorimotor activity leads to internal images of experience, which children then label with words. By the end of the second year, children engage in sociodramatic play with peers. Offer a variety of realistic materials as well as materials without clear functions. Ensure that children have many rich, real-world experiences to inspire positive fantasy play. Viewing a symbolic object as both an object in its own right and as a symbol. Point out similarities between models and real-world experiences. Expose young children to symbols (picture books, drawing, make-believe, maps) Failure to distinguish others" symbolic viewpoints from one"s own. Magical thinking: assigning human purposes to physical events. Conservation: not understanding that physical characteristics stay the same even when appearance changes. Lack of hierarchical classification also demonstrates preoperational children"s centration and irreversibility: Children center on the overriding feature (red) and do not think reversibly, moving from the whole class (flowers) to its parts (red, blue)
