ED PSYCH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dual Representation, Animism, Language Development
16 May 2018
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04/24/18 lecture 21: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
• Piaget’s preoperatioal stage
o Major change: Increase in representational, or symbolic activity
▪ Sensorimotor activity leads to internal images of experiences, which
children label with words
▪ Language development: language is the most flexible means of mental
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childhood cognitive change
o Advances in mental representation
▪ Make-believe play
▪ Dual representation
• Advances in mental representation
o 1. Make-believe Play: Make-believe play gradually becomes
▪ More detached from real-life condition
▪ Less self-centered
▪ More complex, socio-dramatic play
• end of the 2nd year
• create & coordinate several roles
o Benefits of Make-believe Play
▪ During social pretend, interactions last longer, show more involvement,
and draw more children into the activity in a more cooperative manner.
▪ Make-believe strengthens a variety of mental abilities, including
sustained attention, logic, memory, reasoning, and creativity
o 2. Dual Representation: viewing a symbolic object as both object and symbol
▪ Whether or not a child gains the representational insight depends on
• The level of information provided about the relationship between
the symbol and the referent
▪ Child’s prior experience with symbols
• Video: DeLoahe, , 5 The sale odel
• The redile shrikig roo
▪ Mastered around age 3
▪ Adult could help make the connections between the object and its
symbol
• provide maps, photos, drawings, picture books, etc.
• point out their similarities to the real world
▪ Limitations of preoperational thought
• Egocentrism
o failure to distiguish others’ ies fro oe’s o
• Animistic thinking
o tendency to attribute thought & feelings or lifelike
qualities to inanimate objects & forces
• Lack of conservation
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Document Summary
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