The Play Years

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peaks, designated by different colors, could not pick a picture representing the three peaks from a doll’s point of view. Instead, the pictures represented their own point of view.
Conservation problems also are characteristic of early childhood. Conservation refers the changing of an object’s outward appearance while its physical make-up stays the same. For example: Joe and Judy both receive a box of raisins each. Joe eats his from the box while Judy spreads hers out onto the table. Joe seeing that Judy’s raisins appear to take up more space, declares that “Judy got more than I did.”
Although the skill of reasoning makes improvements during childhood, often times, children link two unrelated events together in a cause-and-effect fashion. This reasoning is called transductive reasoning and results from the lack of reversibility, or the ability to work backwards to the starting point.
Children, in their play, develop animistic thinking: assigning ...

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