Toddlers and Logic

I had never realized previous to taking this class just how much our brain changes and develops when we are especially young. Chapter 9's discussion about the theory of mind and how we learn to understand the difference between reality and belief totally blew my mind. I don't spend allot of time with very small children, so these revelations are really interesting to me. I have definitely seen the processes of magical thinking and story telling noted in the chapter and like Piaget, find children's stories to be of immense interest in how they interpret the world. It is very interesting how children tell stories and what that says about their processing, for example, if they are hero's in the story, if there is something they are scared of ect. Even at three children can tell highly elaborate tales that can express how they are feeling about the world. The fact that this demonstrates our propensity for logic and making sense of our human experience, really says allot to me about human nature. Learning things such a this, the relationship between children's stories/theories and our natural tendency towards logic and rational, has been what I have enjoyed most about the class so far. I like that the class takes on some level an anthropological approach to the psychological study as oppose to a more functional form, like learning the specifics of which glands and neuron do what.