Social cognition is how we think about and understand interaction between people.
The theory of mind is the ability to understand self and others as agents who act on the basis of heir mental states, such as beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions.
Play is the hallmark of preschool peer interaction. Play contributes to physical development in several ways.
Jean Piaget developed a developmental sequence of play based on a child's cognitive maturity.
Bullying
Bullying is being exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions on the part of peers, including physical bullying, verbal bullying, and/or emotional bullying.
Cyberbullying is the use of electronic technologies, including e-mails, text messages, digital images, webpages, blogs, or chat rooms to socially harm others.
The theory of mind is the ability to understand self and others as agents who act on the basis of heir mental states, such as beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions.
Play is the hallmark of preschool peer interaction. Play contributes to physical development in several ways.
- Physical activity play: type of play that involves large muscle activity
- Exercise play: play in young children that involves large muscle movement, such as running or jumping
- Rough-and-tumble play: play that looks like fighting or wrestling, where the goal is not to hurt or win, but to have fun
- Play therapy: a way to help children work through difficult feelings with the help of an adult who is trained to understand play as a type of communication
- Solitary independent play: engaging actively with toys that are different from this being used by other children
- Parallel play: playing next to a peer with the same type of materials, but not interacting with the other child
- Cooperative play: play with peers that has a common goal
- Associative play: sharing toys and interacting with peers, but without a common goal
Jean Piaget developed a developmental sequence of play based on a child's cognitive maturity.
- Practice play: performing a certain behavior repetitively for the mere pleasure of it
- Symbolic/sociodramatic play: using symbolic representations and imagination for play
- Games with rules: making up rules for a game or playing games with pre-established rules
Bullying
Bullying is being exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions on the part of peers, including physical bullying, verbal bullying, and/or emotional bullying.
Cyberbullying is the use of electronic technologies, including e-mails, text messages, digital images, webpages, blogs, or chat rooms to socially harm others.