Saturday, June 21, 2008
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Solving Isaiah
Conversations between my pregnant wife and 3.5 year-old son.
Wife: Isaiah is moving around in my belly.
Sam: What he's doing in there?
Wife: Just playing and stuff.
Sam: He has toys in there?
Later the next day...
Sam: (pointing at gravid belly) It's dark in there?
Wife: Yeah, it's dark.
Sam: You turned off the lights?
Wife: Yeah.
Sam: Yeah.
That's inductive reasoning in a 3 year old. He's using specific rules of the world around him to explain all situations. Jean Piaget had a term for this type of processing in which kids will continue to re-formulate their explanations of the world around them as they see their current explanations break down, but the term escapes me now. I want to say "assimilation," but I think it was a different term or it included the word "assimilation." Maybe one of yous guys know. Pretty flippin' awesome either way.
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Comments (3)
i think it's accommodation...could be wrong though
that's a cute conversation. kids are so funny when they don't even try.
I agree with the person above. There is assimilation and accommodation. This case is assimilation though because he is using his preexisting knowledge to explain the new event. :) Great post!
Sounds like he's getting ready to be the big brother. Maybe you'll get to hear him explain it to his brother!