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- Play is gratification
- Play has a set of rules that we must follow
- Play leads to new learning (Zone of Proximal Development)
- Toys are pivots
- Play has stages
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Gratification- children have a desire that they cannot fulfill, they gratify that desire through play
Rules- Each play activity has rules that the child must follow even if they do not want to
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| Zone of Proximal Development |
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| when playing the child can do something they would not be able to do without play |
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| help make the external/internal |
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(0-3)- no play (imitation only)
(3-7) symbolic play
7-12 games with rules
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Paradox of play- play brings pleasure BUT we do not just do whatever we want; each play activity has rules that the child must follow even if they do not want to
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| are socially determined, but they are not fixed. they become more social as we get older |
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| Vygotsky on play and cognition |
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zone of proximal development- a person can do something with assistance that they would not be able to do alone
external to internal- a child develops the ability to separate thought froma ction and action from thought |
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| another word for the help that someone receives to reach a higher level. children can be ____ by people and by activites. |
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| vygotsky- children as they develop they get better at doing things inside their heads. a mature adult can do complicated operations in his head. play can help children develop this ability. |
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| toys and other objects. tows work as a help to the child to move from external to the internal. the toy helps the child pictue the object in their heads. |
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-play is social
-play is culturally determined
-play develops how we think and act
-play has rules |
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-Play is a way of understanding how children think
-play is consolidation : children learn a new idea and consolidate that idea through play
-stage dependent theory
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-we do not learn through play but assimilate something that we learned before
- play developeds in stages as our cognitive structures grow we can play with more and more complexity
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| stages of play- reflecting cognitive growth and how the child thinks |
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- sensorimotor: functional play- we do basic motor/physical/repetitive actions (0-2 yeasrs)
- Preoperations- symbolic play or dramatic/construction play- children can creat symbolic situations in their heads, but are still basically egocentric. (2-6)
- concrete operations- games with rules- our growing social awareness allows us to (6-12)
- Formal operations- no play- we longer need to play to creat these imaginary situations (12-adulthood)
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- repeated actions on objects (usually toys) or self
- acquire motoric understanding of qualtities of the physical world
- begin to form understanding of similarites and differences based on qualities
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| transition to symbolic play |
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| begin to demonstrate meaningful actions out of their contexts-pretending |
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- construction
- dramatic
- combining the two
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| construction symbolic play |
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| creating symbols for use in pretend play |
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| dramatic (sociodramatic or role play) |
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| taking roles in increasingly complex pretend |
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| creating settings for complex pretend |
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| begin by pretending with game pieces, learn game actions, acquire understanding of rules: turn taking, goals, strategy (how to win, how to keep others from winning) |
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