Pretend Play and Cognitive Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 285-311

  Lillard, Angeline ^a   Pinkham, Ashley M ^a   Smith, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural variation in pretense cultural differences in pretend play and frequency of different forms; High socioeconomic status (SES) children's play fantasy, witches, mermaids, Pokemon; Pretend play and cognitive development; Pretending, holding a mysterious place amongst apparently innate activities; Pretending, the most interesting activities of childhood; Pretense and cognitive neuroscience children differentiating whether an actor's intention was to perform an action or to pretend to do so; Pretense play as symbolic; Reading intentions interpreting pretense, one must also read through pretender's actions to his or her intentions; Social referencing abilities children categorizing new pretense events as pretense rather than real; Sociodramatic pretending with peers 4 years of age, proficient partners as older siblings or mother

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EID: 84866458992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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