PSY 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dead Reckoning, Joint Attention, 18 Months
25 Feb 2018
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Chapter 7: conceptual development- understanding who or what(i) / understanding where, In the first half of the second year, toddlers begin to show a grasp of several ideas that are crucial for psychological understanding: Intention: the goal of acting in a certain way : joint attention: in which two or more people focus deliberately on the same referent. Imaginary companions: taylor (1999) found that as many as 63% of the children she interviewed at ages 3-4 and again at 7-8 have imaginary companions at one or both ages. Infants as young as 5 months appear to have such a sense of numerical equality, at least as it applies to sets of 1, 2, or 3 objects. In addition, infants possess an approximate sense of larger numbers. It is not until 3 or 4 years of age, however, that children show precise representation of sets even slightly larger than 3.
