According to Piaget, list and describe the four types of play in which children engage.

What will be an ideal response?


Functional play. Beginning in the sensorimotor stage, the first kind of play involves repetitive motor activity, such as rolling a ball or running and laughing.

Symbolic play. Also called pretend play, imaginative play, or dramatic play, symbolic play emerges toward the end of the sensorimotor stage and increases during early childhood. In symbolic play, children create settings, characters, and scripts.

Constructive play. Children use objects or materials to draw something or make something, such as a tower of blocks.

Formal games. Games with rules include board games-which are sometimes enhanced or invented by children-and games involving motor skills, such as marbles and hopscotch, ball games involving sides or teams, and video games. Such games may involve social interaction, as well as physical activity and rules.

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A. mouth B. large intestine C. stomach D. small intestine

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