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Sutherland, Shelbie L.; Friedman, Ori – Child Development, 2012
Children acquire general knowledge about many kinds of things, but there are few known means by which this knowledge is acquired. In this article, it is proposed that children acquire generic knowledge by sharing in pretend play. In Experiment 1, twenty-two 3- to 4-year-olds watched pretense in which a puppet represented a "nerp" (an unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Child Development, Play