Pretend Play and Cognitive Development

摘要: When children pretend, their behavior is driven by imagination and capacity for seeing the world in a way that contrary to how really it is. They use objects ways are inconsistent with intended purpose, attribute items properties they do not have, act as someone not. Doing so unique human universal associated range of core social cognitive achievements. Here, evidence outlined cultural universality pretense alongside explication links between pretending other developmental domains.