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Taylor, Marjorie; Sachet, Alison B.; Maring, Bayta L.; Mannering, Anne M. – Social Development, 2013
Role-play (i.e., pretending in which children imagine and act out the part of another individual) was assessed with child interviews and parent questionnaires about invisible friends, personified objects, and pretend identities in a sample of 208 young children. Children who engaged in role-play did not differ from other children in age or…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Young Children, Imagination, Interviews
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Mares, Marie-Louise; Sivakumar, Gayathri – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Educational television for young children often combines factual content with fantasy. In 2 experiments, we examined 3- to 5-year-olds' reality judgments and the implications for their learning. In the 1st study, 145 children watched 3 clips featuring (respectively) a Hispanic, a Chinese American, and an Anglo character. Responses indicated…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Young Children, Imagination, Hispanic Americans