SYMBOLIC PLAY

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Nugent, Pam M.S.
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type of children games where the child's neural system plays pretend games: child pretends that he/she is someone else, and that game includes activities that this other persons engages into

SYMBOLIC PLAY: "Example of symbolic play is game of Indians and Cowboys."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. PRUNING
  2. PLAY THERAPY
  3. ANIMISTIC THINKING
  4. ASSOCIATIVE PLAY
  5. BABY TALK
  6. PSYCHOANALYTIC PLAY TECHNIQUE
  7. NONDIRECTIVE PLAY THERAPY
  8. SUBSTANCE P
  9. STRUCTURAL THERAPY
  10. KIDS' CULTURE
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "SYMBOLIC PLAY," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 13, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/symbolic-play/ (accessed June 23, 2017).
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