Make-Believe Play, Imagination, and Creativity: Links to Children's Media Exposure

The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 290-308

  Singer, Dorothy G ^a,b   Singer, Jerome L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive play and imagination; Children fantasy reality distinction; Children and media research advancement (CAMRA); Displacement effect; Imagination in childhood forms; Media exposure on imagination; Multi user dungeons (MUDs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889322672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302752.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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