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Symbolic Play and Its Cognitive Significance

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Golomb, Claire; Cornelius, Cheryl Brandt – Developmental Psychology, 1977

This study examined the relation between symbolic play training and conservation in 30 middle-class nonconserving 4-year-old children. Results showed that 13 experimental subjects manifested some change in solving conservation problems after symbolic play training while only one control subject showed any change toward conservation on the…

Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Play, Preschool Education, Problem Solving

Combinatorial Play, Conceptual Development, and Early Multiword Speech.

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Shore, Cecilia – Developmental Psychology, 1986

Explores the relations among combinatorial capacities in language, symbolic play, blockbuilding, and nonsemantic action sequences within a sample of 18- to 24-month-old children, as well as assessing the developmental level of a selected subset of concepts. (HOD)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation