PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sensory Memory, Egocentrism, Metamemory
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Great expansion in use of symbolic thought, or ra, but not in logic. Ability to use symbols or mental represenations (words, numbers, or images) to which a child has attached meaning e. g. language. Preschool children show the symbolic function through deferred imitation, pretend play, and language. Deferred imitation- based on having kept a mental represnation of an observed action. Pretend play- children may make an object, like doll, represent something else like aperson. Language also symbolic where wrods stand for objects and conecpts. At 3, most children grasp pcitures, maps, scales , spaces etc. Older preschoolers prestn spatila understanding using maps. Instead of reasoning by cause and effect, they reason by transduction- mentally link 2 events close in time, whether or not theres a logically causal relationships. By age 4, many children can classify by 2 critieria such as colour and shape. One type of categorization is ability to distinguish living from non.
