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Toddler Cognitive Development

Published on Nov 27, 2015

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Cognitive Development in Toddlers

Amanda Cowick & Molly Keeler
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Older Toddlers: 'Preoperational Thinking' Learning

Children use symbols to represent objects and events
Photo by Merrick Brown
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Me, me, me!

Egocentric; view the world through their perspective, not through others.
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Centration

  • Psychological equivalent to "tunnel vision"
  • Children concentrate on one part of a problem, not all parts
  • Narrowly focused thought
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Appearance vs. Reality

  • An objects appearance is also its reality.
  • Halloween Mask; Scares them even if they watch it being put on
  • Milk through sunglasses; They think the milk is brown.
  • Very hard for preoperational children to distinguish what is real
Photo by Luca Assen
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Representational Thought

  • Ability to think (plan) before acting
  • This skill is developing in toddlers
  • Cruicial to math, reading, writing skills.
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