Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in the current online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as ...

Pretend play is associated with a host of enhanced cognitive abilities such as executive function, language and perspective taking, which are important to education, making the minimization of ...

Ninety-two preschoolers (46 Anglo- and 46 Korean-American) were observed during free play activities and videotaped in an experimental toy play setting. Cultural differences were examined in the ...

Why incorporating play in preschool helps kids learn Tralee Pearce Published October 18, 2012 ...

My daughter’s preschool teacher Sylvia tells me that guns are just one prop in the vast arena of pretend play—“Kids shoot each other and then they get over it,” she says.

Communication strategies which children use to negotiate themes and roles in social pretend play as a function of social status and sex were examined. Using peer nominations, 68 preschool children ...