Pretend Play Skills and the Child's Theory of Mind.

Lillard, Angeline S.

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ERIC Number: EJ464490

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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Pretend Play Skills and the Child's Theory of Mind.

Lillard, Angeline S.

Child Development, v64 n2 p348-71 Apr 1993

Investigates whether pretend play is an area of advanced understanding with reference to certain skills that are implicated in both pretend play and a theory of mind, including the ability to (1) represent one object as two things at once; (2) see one object as representing another; and (3) represent mental representations. (MDM)

Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Imagination, Learning Processes, Pretend Play

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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