PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pragmatics, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Parenting Styles
21 Oct 2013
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Did poorly in most subjects at school and lacked a retentive memory. A magnetic compass sparked his curiosity and at age 67 still made a lasting impression several years later he showed an interest in arithmetic and solved every problem in the books given to him by his uncle jacob. Einstein claimed he had a furious impulse to understand that underlay his lifetime quest for knowledge. Jean piaget named early childhood the pre-operational stage: the second major stage in cognitive development, in which children become more sophisticated in their use of symbolic thought but are not yet able to use logic (age 2-7) Advances of pre-operational thought (refer to summary table 10-1 on pg. Symbolic function: piaget"s term for ability to use mental representations or symbols(words, numbers, or images) to which a child has attached meanings. Preschool children show symbolic function though imitation, language and. Pretend play: play involving imaginary people or situations.
