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Direct linkFriedman, Ori; Leslie, Alan M. – Cognition, 2007
The ability to engage in and recognize pretend play begins around 18 months. A major challenge for theories of pretense is explaining how children are able to engage in pretense, and how they are able to recognize pretense in others. According to one major account, the metarepresentational theory, young children possess both production and…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Behavior Theories, Child Behavior
