Toddler & Preschool communication

Question 1

autonomy

Answer 1

ritualism, negativism, ambivalence

Question 2

initiative

Answer 2

begins to plan acitivites, make up games, initiates acitivities with others

Question 3

centration

Answer 3

they can center on one thing at a time and you can’t move them. *tell them what they can/will see, feel, hear, smell, what they wake up to, what they will hear

Question 4

irreversibility

Answer 4

don’t understand all their body boundaries

Question 5

transductive reasoning

Answer 5

they put things together in time just because they once coexisted at one time (ie. going to the mall and seeing grandma)

Question 6

animism

Answer 6

they think inanimate things are alive (naming IV poles, etc)

Question 7

magical thinking

Answer 7

they think they can make things happen with the power of their mind very evident through “HIGH ACCESS SIBLINGS” (less than 2 years apart and same sex) = emotionally bound/binding.

Question 8

symbolic play

Answer 8

when they use an object to represent another object *ie. using a box as a pirate ship, should have some sign of symbolic play by age 18 months (won’t be seen in children with autism)

Question 9

limited concept of time

Answer 9

use events instead of time *after lunch is your nap, meds before bedtime

Question 10

cognitive egocentrism

Answer 10

they think the way they view/see things is the way that everyone can (ie. show me your hands - they put them up and think that you can see them the same way they can)

Question 11

illness as punishment

Answer 11

they think that only bad things should happen to bad people

Question 12

fear of bodily harm, castration

Answer 12

no concept of body boundaries, a lot of fears about body boundaries, may ask if something will leak out (ie. IV or bandaid taken off)