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 ...

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

Then we presented each picture pair, side-by-side, to 100 children at the height of the pretend play years (3 to 6 years old). Pictures were gender-matched to the child.

My daughter recently told me the one rule for playing with pretend guns at her preschool: “You can shoot someone. But you have to ask them if it’s okay first. And they have to say yes.” And ...

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 ...