Ever tried to play pretend just to see your furry baby’s response? Lately, social media has been abuzz with trends of pet ...

He explains that pretend play functions as an experience-expectant process, enhancing the brain's readiness for focused learning. "It's not clear whether the extended period of childhood and ...

Kelly Morse entered her 4-year-old son’s pretend doctor’s office one day last April and asked him how she was doing. She was taken aback when he examined her with his toy stethoscope and ...

Social interactions within pretend play: A reciprocal, back-and-forth interaction with one or more peers while engaged in some element of pretense (e.g., object substitution, ...

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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 ...

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 allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings, and the modulation of affect, the ability to integrate emotion with cognition (Jent, Niec, & Baker, 2011; Seja, & Russ ...

While pretend play requires children to share a common pretend perspective, it doesn't require them to distinguish between their own perspective and that of another person.

Pretend play is their way of practicing being in the real world, and it gives them the tools they need to succeed in it when the time comes.

From developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a "metaphoric multivitamin" in an editorial published in the journal Neuroscience and ...