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Children use realistic materials, such as trucks, dolls, tea sets, dress-up clothes, and toy scenes (house, farm, garage, airport) to act out everyday roles in their culture. Materials without clear functions (such as blocks, cardboard cylinders, paper bags, and sand) inspire fantastic role play, such as "pirate" and "creature from outer space."
They believe that Piaget's strict stage definition must be transformed into a less tightly knit concept, one in which a related set of competencies develops over an extended period, depending on brain development and specific experiences.
These investigators point to findings indicating that as long as the complexity of tasks and children's exposure to them are carefully controlled, children approach those tasks in similar, stage-consistent ways.
For example, in drawing pictures, preschoolers depict objects separately, ignoring their spatial arrangement.
In understanding stories, they grasp a single story line but have trouble with a main plot plus one or more subplots.
This flexible stage notion recognizes the unique qualities of early childhood thinking.
At the same time, it provides a better account of why, as Leslie put it, "Preschoolers' minds are such a blend of logic, fantasy, and faulty reasoning.
Representations of personally meaningful, one-time events.
As 3- to
6-year-olds' cognitive and conversational skills improve.
Their descriptions of special events become better organized in time, more detailed.
Enriched with a personal perspective, and related to the larger context of their lives
A young preschooler simply reports, "I went camping."
Older preschoolers include specifics: where and when the event happened and who was present.
And with age, preschoolers increasingly include subjective information—why, for example, an event was exciting, funny, sad, or made them feel proud or embarrassed ("I loved sleeping all night in the tent!")—that explains the event's personal significance.
Young children learning Chinese, Japanese, and Korean—languages in which nouns are often omitted from adults' sentences, while verbs are stressed—acquire verbs more readily than their English-speaking agemates.
Besides increased exposure to verbs, Chinese-speaking children hear a greater variety of verbs denoting physical actions, which are easiest to master—for example, several verbs for carry, each referring to a different way of carrying, such as on one's back, in one's arms, or with one's hands.