TY - GEN AU - Ruth Griffiths TI - Study of IMAGINATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: and its Function in Mental Development SN - 9781138875128 PY - 2014///1202 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This is Volume IX of thirty-two on a series on Developmental Psychology. First published in 1935, this study looks at the development of imagination in children. Which uses a method in which observation of the free behaviour of children plays the principal role, but in which experimental technique is represented by a somewhat rigorous control of conditions, by a discreet use of question and answer, and by an emphasis on the necessity for accurate and full report, while psychoanalysis, at the same time, contributes a depth of insight, a realization of the importance of affective factors, and an alertness for the significance of detail ER -