They found that every child in the study attempted to interact with the pictures as if they were the objects they represented, suggesting that symbolic thinking is not inhibitory control as the frontal cortex develops.
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This is an important stage in the development of a child because the child is beginning to think symbolically, associating behaviors with actions, thus setting the child up for the development of further symbolic thinking.
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Symbolic thinking, scientists explain, is a form of consciousness that extends beyond the here and now to a contemplation of the past and future and a perception of the world within and beyond one individual.
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Terror Management Theory argues that humans are equipped with unique cognitive abilities beyond what is necessary for survival, which includes symbolic thinking, extensive self-consciousness, and perception of themselves as temporal beings aware of the finitude of their existence.
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During the preoperational stage symbolic thinking continues to develop, however, the majority of thought processes tend to be more magical and these children lack the ability to think through cause and effect and more difficult comparisons of groups, objects, and ideas.
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In " Language and Species " ( 1990 ), he suggests that all three questions might be answered by postulating that the origin of language can be traced to the evolution of representation systems and symbolic thinking, together with a later development of formal syntax.
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Though it is definitely not a manufactured object, it has been suggested that some australopithecine might have recognized it as a symbolic face, in possibly the earliest example of symbolic thinking or aesthetic sense in the human heritage, and brought the pebble back to the cave.
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Dr . Philip G . Chase, an archeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, said the artifact record for early music was too sparse to allow for any definite connections yet between music and the evolution of intelligence, language and symbolic thinking.
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The first forms of symbolic thinking made stone tools possible, which in turn made hunting for meat a more dependable source of food for our nonhuman ancestors while making possible forms of social communication that make sharing between males and females, but also among males, decreasing sexual competition:
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Currently paleoanthropologists are debating whether these " Homo " species possessed some or many of the cultural and behavioral traits associated with modern humans such as language, complex symbolic thinking, technological creativity etc . It seems that they were culturally conservative maintaining simple technologies and foraging patterns over very long periods.
