Pretend Play
Definition
Pretend play, also known as imaginative play or make-believe, is a type of play where children use their imagination to create scenarios and act out different roles and events.
Analogy
Pretend play is like being the director of your own movie. You get to create the characters, decide what they do, how they interact with each other, and even control the environment around them.
Related terms
Symbolic Play: A type of play that occurs when children use objects, actions or ideas to represent other objects, actions, or ideas as play.
Role Play: The acting out or performance of a particular role, either consciously (as a technique in therapy or training) or unconsciously, in accordance with social expectations attached to that role.
Sociodramatic Play: A type of pretend play where children enact various roles and themes in stories that they create.
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- What experimental design would best assess if pretend play enhances executive function skills in preschoolers?
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