Play and its relations to other mental functions in the child
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1993 (59), 17-28
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219935904
Abstract
Two indexes of toddler play, duration of attention and level of sophistication, are shown to interrelate, to predict one another over time, and to be predicted by infant activity and habituation as well as by aspects of toddlers' own emerging language abilities.Keywords
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