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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 ...

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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.

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 ...

After identifying these key components of pretend play, we theorized that the components develop hierarchically, in the order presented above, across the preschool years (3-5 years of age).