pretend play
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpretendandplay
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pretend
adjective
uk/prɪˈtend/us/prɪˈtend/
imaginary or ...
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play
noun
uk/pleɪ/us/pleɪ/
a piece of writing that is intended to be acted in a theatre or on radio ...
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(Definition ofpretendandplayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Promptedpretendplayin autism.
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Methodological issues in studying earlypretendplay.
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Pretendplayin high risk and developmentally delayed children.
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The real-life disciplinary episode occurred two days before thepretendplayepisode.
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Infants with autism : an investigation of empathy,pretendplay, joint attention, and imitation.
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It is highly plausible that jointpretendplayor playfulness fosters the understanding of mental states.
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Four of these children lacked bothpretendplayand joint attention at 18 months.
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This error points to the added workpretendplaymight cognitively create for a parent.
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In par t, this is because thepretendplayepisodes are interwoven with the ongoing action of the day.
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These questions were included becausepretendplaymay reflect a symbolic ability that is also useful in language development.
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Rather, they propose that a general basic cognitive deficit in autism underlies the social communication impairments in joint attention,pretendplay, and theory of mind.
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Both pairs, (1-2) and (3- 4) suggest that bothpretendplayepisodes are based on previous interactions that provide "scripts" for the role-play.
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We chose to focus on verbal participation inpretendplayas representative of the important discourse competencies that children acquire in the preschool years.
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Most studies examining the play abilities of children with autism have shown that they produce very littlepretendplayunder spontaneous, or free, play conditions.
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This review examines the evidence for the possible relationships that may exist between joint attention andpretendplayand the later development of a theory of mind.
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Other accounts of impairments in joint attention andpretendplaysee them merely as symptoms of a more basic underlying cognitive deficit, in attention or executive function.
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Remembering to enact apretendplayrole while being a parent (and a person) can lead to speech errors that point to the cognitive work the play requires.
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This result suggests thatpretendplayis not only positively related to language development but the lack of play behavior is negatively related to language development.
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For instance, children increased theirpretendplaywhen they had a doll represent a person compared to having a rock or a pencil represent a person.
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In children a range of precursors to the full development of theory of mind such as gaze following, joint attention behaviours andpretendplayhave been identified.
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This study does not focus on the child's ability to invent a fictional story, nor does it focus onpretendplay, where the child attributes imagined characteristics to real objects.
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Ifpretendplaymakes the expression of hostile actions and feelings more acceptable, it did so here in a selective manner-for boys in general and for disruptive boys in particular.
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