Early Childhood

Abstract

It seems to me that in approaching the study of each age level, including early childhood, we need to ask what kind of neoformations appear at the given age, that is, what new thing that was not present in preceding stages is produced in the process of development at the given stage because the process of development itself obviously consists primarily of the appearance of new formations at each stage. Neoformations appear at the end of each age level and represent the result of the development that occurred during that period. The task of analysis is, first, to trace the paths and the genesis of the neoformation, second, to describe the neoformation, and third, to establish the connection between the neoformation and the subsequent levels of development.