On “Symbolic Dogs” and Productive Imagination

In the last article, we began a discussion of the principal characteristics of imagination – its realism and abilities to see the whole before the parts, regarding them as the key components of a child’s creative potential. For the past two decades, my associates and I have conducted experimental studies of these characteristics of imagination. Special methodologies were developed for this purpose. One of them is a modification of the methodology of A.V. Zaporozhets (1986), which the author himself used to study the