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Social Play: An Interactional Analysis of Play in Face-to-Face Social Interaction
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Building Connections Through Play: An Exploration of Social Play in Children's Early Relationships
Social play has long been considered a key context for exploring children’s early social relationships, with substantial research exploring children’s interactions with parents and peers. As part of social play, children use verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to create a shared …
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Social play in the South American punare (Thrichomys apereoides): a test of play function hypotheses
The role of social play in juvenile behavioral development was examined in the punare (<u>Thrichomys apereoides</u>). Three proposed functions of social play were evaluated: 1. play serves to develop agonistic skills, 2. play has a role in the onset of weaning and 3. play establishes dominance …
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Social play in competitive contexts. Exploring community, sociability and sociality through team-based competitive video games, relating activities and spaces
… has been given to the vast and diverse social and communal worlds of MMOs (massively multiplayer online games) and MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role playing games). Research has delved into the exploration and examination of such spaces and its inhabitants and players and shown …
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Improvised Musical Play: A Way of Fostering Group Play Among Handicapped and Non-Handicapped Preschool Children
… the effect of improvised music and lyrics on the social play of handicapped and non-handicapped preschool children. The study sought to discover (1) how the teacher and children interact to create improvised musical play, (2) to understand the effect of improvised music and lyrics on the social …
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Solitary and Social Object Play in the Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… have focused on the emergence of solitary and social play in early development. However, few consider observer and parallel forms of solitary play. In this study, use of video analysis revealed that there is a significant difference between the frequency of solitary, observer, parallel, and …
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Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques
… statistically analyzed the relationship between player age, player sex, genetic kinship and social play duration in juvenile Tibetan macaques.</p> <p>Chapter I provides a general introduction and addresses current and past literature on the behavior, ecology and play among macaque genera and …
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Playing games together: play interventions for community and communal play
This thesis is concerned with play, particularly the role of social play in a co-located context and its ability to bring people together. Participation in social play can have significant effects on an individual, group, community and culture, and thus, through practice-based research, this thesis …
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Expression of Emotion by infants with and without Disabilities
… immunisation, oral polio vaccination, social play and response to a surprise toy. These were designed to elicit a range of emotional behaviours. 20 infants with congenital, developmental disabilities of varying aetiologies were matched on developmental age and filmed in the same …
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Play in Immature Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>): Location, Use of Play Signals, and Play Bout Termination at Mt. Huangshan, China
… this study, I examined the relationship between play behaviors, play location, the frequency of selected play signals, and play bout termination in Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) during immature social play. I gathered video data at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, Mt. Huangshan, …
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Temperament, cognition, social skills, and play in young children
… of the relations among temperament, cognition, social skills, and social and cognitive levels of play in 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old preschool children. Subjects were 126 preschool boys (n=67) and girls (n=59) selected from two community child care programs in north-central Indiana. The mean age of …
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Parent descriptions of the active play behaviours of their twins and triplets with autism
Children with autism engage in active play in different ways than children who are neurotypical, but the active play behaviours of children with autism are not well understood. Research with twins and triplets with autism offers a unique opportunity to explore the active play behaviours of children …
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Effects of friend support on the parenting behavior of Latina adolescent mothers
Social support and parenting research with adolescent mothers has principally focused on samples of African American and European American mothers and support provided by the parenting adolescent’s own mother. There are gaps in the available empirical evidence regarding support provided by other …
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Child's play: playgrounds and child development
Nature‐based play environments refer to children’s playgrounds that are designed with an abundance of natural elements and materials. As evident in the work of numerous design firms throughout the United States and Europe, there is a growing interest in nature‐based playgrounds in part because they …
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The role of teacher interaction in preschool children's dramatic play
… area of the childcare setting, the dramatic play area. In addition, parent reports of child behavior problems were used to delineate two groups of children, with high and low scores on this measure. A normative analysis of differences across teacher involvement conditions indicated that …
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Experience of Play Participation and Use of Lower Extremity Orthoses in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Case Study
… using lower extremity orthoses (LEOs) in natural play contexts. CP is the most commonly occurring motor disability in childhood. Associated with CP, impairments in functional mobility, spasticity, varying degrees of muscle tone, ROM, and impaired gross and fine motor control are barriers to …
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Galápagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollekaeki) Play Behaviors on San Cristóbal Island, Ecuador
<p>My thesis concerns observations of play activities from videotapes of Galápagos sea lions on San Cristóbal Island from mid-summer of 2008. I begin with a discussion of ideas about play and types of play, elaborate the conceptual system of projects and routines in play, and provide a brief …
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