TY - JOUR
T1 - What do mothers know about the developmental nature of play?
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
AU - Damast, Amy Melstein
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
N1 - Funding Information:
C.T.L. was supported by research grants HD20559, HD20807, and MH48915. A.M.D. was supported by an N.Y.U. Predoctoral Fellowship. M.H.B. was supported by research grants HD20559 and HD20807 and by a Research Career Development Award HDO0521 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. We thank L. Baumwell, L. Cyphers, J. Goodnow, R. Kahana-Kalman, and J. McClure for feedback and assistance.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Mothers of 21-month-olds were given a list of 24 child play acts and asked to rank order the acts in terms of relative difficulty. Included were exploratory behaviors (e.g.,mouthing), nonsymbolic acts (e.g., nesting cups), and symbolic acts (e.g., drinking from an empty cup). In general, mothers' rankings matched scalings of play established in the developmental literature. These findings represent a first step in elucidating mothers' knowledge about development in the domain of child play.
AB - Mothers of 21-month-olds were given a list of 24 child play acts and asked to rank order the acts in terms of relative difficulty. Included were exploratory behaviors (e.g.,mouthing), nonsymbolic acts (e.g., nesting cups), and symbolic acts (e.g., drinking from an empty cup). In general, mothers' rankings matched scalings of play established in the developmental literature. These findings represent a first step in elucidating mothers' knowledge about development in the domain of child play.
KW - developmental sequences
KW - maternal judgments
KW - play
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90014-0
DO - 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90014-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38149146482
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 17
SP - 341
EP - 345
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 3
ER -