Toys, Play and Child Development

Edited by Jeffery H. Goldstein 

Page 9: 
"Repetition compulsion". 
(scan in table on page 10) 
"Schemas" - Research into this further. 

Page 13: 
"The child who plays at pretending is finding out many things that sort of look like others, can be manipulated and played with, and eventually learns that many things can be played with in the privacy of the mind". 

"Not all children grasp this concept. Leslie proposed that autistic children, who rarely play imaginatively, seem never to be able to make the step toward metarepresentational thought". 

Page 15: 
"The ability to think in the subjunctive mode of 'might this be'?". 

Page 22: 
"Toys can serve multiple functions seem to have the longest play life and are used more extensively in children's development of story materials". 

"The miniaturisation of the adult world into manageable entertaining stories". 

Page 38: 
"When they play with realistic toys, their play relates to the theme of the toys and is more context bound. Play episodes with these toys, however, are long and involved. In contrast, play with less realistic props tend to be more varied, and the language surrounding this play episodes with ambiguous toys tend to be shorter".