Book contents
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
- Child Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editorial preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments: External Reviewers
- Introduction Study of child development: an interdisciplinary enterprise
- Part I Theories of development
- Part II Methods in child development research
- Part III Prenatal development and the newborn
- Part IV Perceptual and cognitive development
- Part V Language and communication development
- Part VI Social and emotional development
- Social development
- Emotional development
- Moral development
- Aggressive and antisocial behavior
- Attachment in early childhood
- Attachment in middle childhood
- Early childhood education and care
- Joint attention
- Parenting and the family
- Play
- Peers and siblings
- Selfhood
- Socialization
- Temperament
- Theory of mind
- Part VII Motor and related development
- Part VIII Postnatal brain development
- Part IX Developmental pathology
- Part X Crossing the borders
- Part XI Speculations about future directions
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Play
from Part VI - Social and emotional development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2017
Book contents
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
- Child Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editorial preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments: External Reviewers
- Introduction Study of child development: an interdisciplinary enterprise
- Part I Theories of development
- Part II Methods in child development research
- Part III Prenatal development and the newborn
- Part IV Perceptual and cognitive development
- Part V Language and communication development
- Part VI Social and emotional development
- Social development
- Emotional development
- Moral development
- Aggressive and antisocial behavior
- Attachment in early childhood
- Attachment in middle childhood
- Early childhood education and care
- Joint attention
- Parenting and the family
- Play
- Peers and siblings
- Selfhood
- Socialization
- Temperament
- Theory of mind
- Part VII Motor and related development
- Part VIII Postnatal brain development
- Part IX Developmental pathology
- Part X Crossing the borders
- Part XI Speculations about future directions
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development , pp. 476 - 481Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
Further reading
Bekoff, J.A., & Byers, M. (Eds.) (1998). Animal play: Evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Chudacoff, H.P. (2007). Children at play: An American story. New York, NY: New York University Press.Google Scholar
Pellegrini, A.D., & Smith, P.K. (Eds.) (2005). The nature of play: Great apes and humans. New York, NY: Guilford Press.Google Scholar
Sands, R.R., & Sands, L.R. (Eds.) (2010). The anthropology of sport and human movement: A biocultural perspective. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Singer, D.G., Golinkoff, R.M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (Eds.) (2006). Play = learning: How play motivates and enhances children’s cognitive and social-emotional growth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
References
Baldwin, J.D., & Baldwin, J.I. (1977). The role of learning phenomena in the ontogeny and exploration of play. In Chevalier-Skolnikoff, S. & Poirier, F.E. (Eds.), Primate bio-social development (pp. 343–406). New York, NY: Garland.Google Scholar
Bekoff, M. (1975). The communication of play intention: Are play signals functional? Semiotica, 15, 231–239.Google Scholar
Burghardt, G.M. (2005). The genesis of animal play: Testing the limits. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Byers, J.A., & Walker, C. (1995). Refining the motor training hypothesis for the evolution of play. American Naturalist, 146, 25–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dapporto, L., Turillazzi, S., & Palagi, E. (2006). Dominance interactions in young adult foundresses of a paper wasp: A play-like behavior? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120, 394–400.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Graham, K.L. (2010). Virtual playgrounds? Assessing the playfulness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. American Journal of Play, 3, 106–125.Google Scholar
Graham, K.L. (2011). A coevolutionary relationship between striatum size and social play in nonhuman primates. American Journal of Primatology, 73, 314–322.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Graham, K.L., & Burghardt, G.M. (2010). Current perspectives on the biological study of play: Signs of progress. Quarterly Review of Biology, 85, 393–418.Google Scholar
Kuba, M.J., Byrne, R.A., Meisel, D.V., & Mather, J.A. (2006). When do octopuses play? Effects of repeated testing, object type, age, and food deprivation on object play in Octopus vulgaris. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120, 184–90.Google Scholar
Lancy, D.F. (2014). “Babies aren’t persons”: A survey of delayed personhood. In Hiltrud, O. & Keller, H. (Eds.), Different faces of attachment: Cultural variations of a universal human need (pp. 66–109). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lewis, K.P. (2005). Social play in the great apes. In Smith, P.K. & Pellegrini, A.D. (Eds.), The nature of play: Great apes and humans (pp. 27–53). New York, NY: Guilford Press.Google Scholar
Lewis, K.P. (2010). From landscapes to playscapes: The evolution of play in humans and other animals. In Sands, R.R. & Sands, L.R. (Eds.), The anthropology of sport and human movement: A biocultural perspective (pp. 61–89). Lanham, MD: Lexington.Google Scholar
Lewis, K.P., & Barton, R.A. (2006). Amygdala size and hypothalamus size predict social play frequency in non-human primates: A comparative analysis using independent contrasts. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120, 31–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, P., & Caro, T.M. (1985). On the functions of play and its role in behavioural development. In Rosenblatt, J., Beer, C., Busnel, M., & Slater, P. (Eds.), Advances in the study of behaviour, Vol. 15 (pp. 59–103). New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Pellegrini, A.D. (1995). Boys’ rough-and-tumble play and social competence: Contemporaneous and longitudinal relations. In Pellegrini, A.D. (Ed.), The future of play theory: A multidisciplinary inquiry into the contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith (pp. 107–126). New York, NY: SUNY Press.Google Scholar
Pellegrini, A.D. (2009). The role of play in human development. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Pellis, S.M., & Pellis, V.C. (2009). The playful brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience. Oxford, UK: One World.Google Scholar
Pruitt, J.N., Burghardt, G.M., & Riechert, S.E. (2012). Non-conceptive sexual behavior in spiders: A form of play associated with body condition, personality type and male intrasexual selection. Ethology, 118, 33–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Špinka, M., Newberry, R.C., & Bekoff, M. (2001). Mammalian play: Training for the unexpected. Quarterly Review of Biology, 76, 141–168.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smith, P.K. (2009). Children and play: Understanding children’s worlds. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar