PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Subitizing, Impulsivity, Causal Structure
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Play is important and is/was in decline: children play is good for them, reduces stress, wenner 2009, evidence that play reduces stress and anxiety. Anxious kids much less anxious after imaginative play. After free play, kids given social conflicts to reason about, offer better solutions. After playing with tools, kids generate more creative uses for them. Increases self regulation, lowers impulsivity: there has been more of an emphasis of free play, kids learn better when they have less structure. Scientific thinking in play: play is about discovering causal structure. Schultz & bonawitz: children want to figure out how a toy works before they play with something else. Lecture 18- thinking during play: a variable they didn"t consider controlling for. Buchsbaum et al 2012 pretense and counterfactual reasoning. Classifying: rules of classification is part of mathematical thinking. Magnitude: children engaging in activities are describing or comparing the size of objects by side.
