Solitary and Collaborative Pretense Play in Early Childhood: Sources of Individual Variation in the Development of Representational Competence

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2910-2929

  Bornstein, Marc H ^a,c   Haynes, O Maurice ^a   O'Reilly, Anne Watson ^b   Painter, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Natl Inst Child Hlth Hum Devmt

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0030342721     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01895.x     Document Type: Article

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