Imagination also called the faculty of imagining is

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses.

Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process

Children often use narratives or pretend play in order to exercise their imagination. When children develop fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make -believe situation by acting as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.

Regarding the volunteer effort, imagination can be classified as: • voluntary (the dream from the sleep, the daydream) • involuntary (the reproductive imagination, the creative imagination, the dream of perspective)

Memory and imagination have been shown to be affected by one another. "Images made by functional magnetic resonance imaging technology show that remembering and imagining sends blood to identical parts of the brain. "

Механизмы воображения: • агглютинация — создание нового образа из частей других образов; • гиперболизация — увеличение или уменьшение объекта и его частей; • схематизация — сглаживание различий между объектами и выявление их сходств; • акцентирование — подчеркивание особенностей объектов; • типизация — выделение повторяющегося и существенного в однородных явлениях.

Развитию воображения способствуют: • ситуации незавершенности; • разрешение и даже поощрение множества вопросов; • стимулирование независимости, самостоятельных разработок; • билингвистический опыт; • позитивное внимание к ребёнку со стороны взрослых.