Assessment of actions with objects in Mexican children from 13 to 52 months old

Abstract

Acquisition of actions with objects corresponds to dominant activity of early preschool childhood. Psychological practice doesn’t count with specific instruments for assessment of acquisition of actions with objects within qualitative interaction meaningful for this age. The objective of the article is to present the data of assessment of such actions in children between 13 and 52 months old. For the interactions with children, new qualitative instrument of assessment "Evaluation of objection actions in preschool children" was used (Solovieva and Quintanar, 2014). The results of the study allowed to establish specific qualitative stages of development of actions with concrete objects and toys. Particularly, the stages of initial appearance of symbolic actions with an important role of animated toys were found. The authors discuss the usefulness of qualitative instruments and procedures for assessment of early psychological development and for interaction with children together with the possibility of creation of programs for correction of children at this age.

Keywords

• preschool age
• development
• object activity
• symbolic action
• early play