of creative and culture in children’s fantasy/reality judgments. Child Development, 68(6), 1015-1017. Many researchers have underestimated children’s ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality due to “methodological problems and overgeneralization” of children’s performance in conditions where they have little control. Therefore, the main goal of this article was to explain that children have the ability to differentiate between fantastical and real entities. Also, there are different
companion, have become accepted as normal aspects of development in children (Taylor, 1999). Research has also indicated an individual difference in children’s engagement in fantasy, some are more reality focused and others more fantasy oriented. Fantasy orientation (FO) has been described as “an individual’s tendency to think and play in a fantastical realm” (Sharon & Woolley, 2004; Singer & Singer, 1990; Taylor, Cartwright & Carlson, 1993). It is suggested to be an individual difference that is stable
It presents arguments on how this questionnaire is relevant in measuring the fantasy orientation among children effectively than other methods. Introduction The ability to distinguish between what is fantasy and what is reality is one of the most basic human cognitive functions; it signifies an understanding of what is ‘real’ and ‘not real’. However there are certain individuals who are geared more towards a greater affinity for the imaginative and the creative. This affinity or gearing towards getting
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle In the early sixties, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. released his candidly fantastical novel, Cat's Cradle. Within the text an entire religious sect, called Bokononism is born; a religion built on lies, absurdity, and irony. The narrator of Cat's Cradle is Jonah, a freelance writer who characterizes Bokononism as being, "free form as an amoeba" (Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, 3). It is boundless and unpredictable as the unconscious itself. Bokonon lives on the impoverished island