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Social Foundations of Self I: Play and Game
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2025
The development of self in children is deeply rooted in social interactions, mainly through stages of play and structured games. These stages, outlined by sociologist George Herbert Mead, illustrate how children progressively learn to understand and adopt social roles, forming a cohesive sense of self.The Play Stage: Imitation and Simple Role-TakingIn the early years of childhood, the play stage is characterized by imitative behavior, where children engage in role-playing based on familiar...
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Peering into the Dynamics of Social Interactions: Measuring Play Fighting in Rats
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2013
Play fighting in the rat involves attack and defense of the nape of the neck, which if contacted, is gently nuzzled with the snout. Because the movements of one animal are countered by the actions of its partner, play fighting is a complex, dynamic interaction. This dynamic complexity raises methodological problems about what to score for experimental studies. We present a scoring schema that is sensitive to the correlated nature of the actions performed. Two experiments illustrate how these...
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Making MR Imaging Child's Play - Pediatric Neuroimaging Protocol, Guidelines and Procedure
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2009
Despite an increase in the use of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans, the study of young pediatric populations remains a challenge. We present a hands-on, step-by-step video protocol including guidelines for clinicians and researchers intending to perform (f)MRI in young children.
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A 'Plug and Play' Method to Create Water-dispersible Nanoassemblies Containing an Amphiphilic Polymer, Organic Dyes and Upconverting Nanoparticles
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2015
Organic dye molecules and oleic acid coated upconverting nanoparticles are not water-soluble. This protocol describes a ‘plug and play’ method that enables the transfer of organic dye molecules and upconverting particles from their initial hydrophobic solvent to water.
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Integrating Visual Psychophysical Assays within a Y-Maze to Isolate the Role that Visual Features Play in Navigational Decisions
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2019
Here, we present a protocol to demonstrate a behavioral assay that quantifies how alternative visual features, such as motion cues, influence directional decisions in fish. Representative data are presented on the speed and accuracy where Golden Shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) follow virtual fish movements.
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This separation allows children to treat an object according to a pretend scenario rather than only its practical purpose. Psychologically, that shift provides a setting for examining how children move between immediate perception and imagined meaning. It also helps researchers study flexible thinking, symbolic understanding, and the organization of imagined situations.
When children participate together, they must negotiate what roles, actions, and meanings the pretend situation will follow. These shared rules require children to consider another person’s perspective and coordinate their behavior with a group scenario. Observing this process gives psychology researchers information about communication, cooperation, and emerging social understanding.
Pretend scenarios can give children a structured way to represent situations and express emotions through imagined roles or actions. Because the child can approach experiences indirectly, the activity offers opportunities to examine how imagination relates to emotional expression and self-regulation. It can therefore complement psychological study of children’s developing responses and communication.
Researchers can examine how children organize scenarios, assign or negotiate roles, use language, and respond to the imagined actions of others. These observations connect the activity with questions about learning, perspective-taking, problem-solving, social understanding, and self-regulation. The same play episode may therefore provide evidence about several interacting areas of psychological development.
Educators may use structured pretend activities to create opportunities for communication, language use, perspective-taking, and problem-solving. The value lies in the organized social and imaginative demands of the activity rather than in a single toy or script. Observing children during these activities can also help educators notice how they participate and express ideas.
Clinicians may use structured pretend activities as one context for developmental assessment because children’s play can reveal how they organize scenarios, communicate meanings, and manage interactions. Such activities can provide observations related to language, social understanding, emotional expression, and self-regulation. They are especially relevant when assessment seeks information about behavior in an interactive, imaginative setting.