Imagination, an Innate Human Capability

Have you ever wondered why kids have such immense imagination? Do you think that adults have different kind of imagination compare to kids. Imagination is always important aspect to discuss. It’s one of the most important aspects of human mind. It is playing an important role in learning as well as in living. Our well-being is very much determined by our imagination.

One presupposition states that imagination is already with us since we were born. A scientific study related to this conducted in Yale University. The ability to distinguish multiple fantasy words may be an innate skill. "Children's metaphysical reasoning is much more complicated than previously, "says Daena Skolnick, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Yale University.

In a recent study entitled "What Does Batman think about Sponge Bob? " Skolnick and Paul Bloom, a Yale psychology professor, asked 24 adults and 24 children ages four to six questions about familiar fictional characters. For example: Is Batman real? Does Batman think Robin is real? Does Batman think Nemo is real? For kids playing at home, the popular answers might be; no, yes, no. In most cases, the youngsters' responses closely matched the adults'. This concluded that the way kids thinking did not simply place all make-believe characters in one universe. The Batman’s world is different to Nemo’s.

To find out more about the claim that children make this multiword distinction on their own, the dynamic duo now plans to test three-year-olds and also to explore how kids deal with their own pretend word. "Our hunch is that certain facts about how fiction works
are not learned; they are natural by-products of the architecture of human imagination, " Bloom explains. That would mean that the flight of fancy needed to write a novel or appreciate a blockbuster might spring from the same skills we use to predict what might be happening around a corner ahead of us or in an upcoming week. From the everyday to the extraordinary, we spent much of our lived immersed in hypothetical scenarios, and Skolnick hopes to track how we manage them all.