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Peer reviewedWatson, Malcolm W.; Jackowitz, Elaine R. – Child Development, 1984
Investigates the developmental sequence of learning to transform objects into agents and recipients of action in early symbolic play. Each of 48 children (from 14 to 25 months old) demonstrated initiative pretending after an adult modeled agent and recipient substitutions in pretending to talk on the telephone. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Imitation, Infants
