The use of iconic and symbolic means in preschoolers intellectual development

The article presents the features of the intellectual development of preschool children, shows the role of the iconic and symbolic function of thinking in this process, the meaning of this function in the socialization of children. The characteristic of the system of iconic-symbolic means of thinking and the stages of its acquisition by preschoolers are given. Information encoding and decoding, situation modeling, environment and other circumstances substitution and schematization are used to fulfill these functions. Some methods of identifying the levels of development of iconic-symbolic means of thinking (modeling ability), pedagogical technologies for the formation of modeling ability will be interesting for practicing preschool education teachers.