Seminar: Developmental origins of the fantasy-reality distinction
Blog 4: How do children distinguish between fantasy and reality
Sometimes it is assumed that children cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. Fantasy entails the “activity of imagining impossible or improbable things” while the reality is “the state of things as they actually exist” (Shtulman & Carey, 2007). In some cases, these assumptions are true. Adults should understand that children have more ability to distinguish fantasy is from reality than it was traditionally thought. Traditionally, children were thought to have not developed enough to realize that there is a difference between what is mental and what is physical, appearance and reality, and dreams and reality. The traditional beliefs that are not based on research have affected what children are taught in early stages either through formal education, media, and the environment.
Currently, many research programs such as Sharon and Woolley (2004) have confirmed that children are able to distinguish between fantasy and reality as early as age 3. At age three, a child can differentiate between a toy car and the actual car. Since the body of research has already confirmed that a child can distinguish between fantasy and reality from such tender ages, the most crucial aspect is to understand how this happens.
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