Play chapter 1 & 2

Play is voluntary or freely chosen.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Play is nonliteral and involves symbolism.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Play is meaningful and requires active engagement of the child.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Play is free of external rules.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Assimilation occurs when children adjust their schema or mental structures to accept new knowledge.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development is concrete operations.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Functional or practice play is the second stage of play.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Piaget’s second level of play is symbolic or pretend play.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Piaget’s research documents that play becomes more simplistic with age.

• TRUE

• FALSE

_____ defined play as “the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”

• Lev Vygotsky

• Friedrich Froebel

• Maria Montessori

• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi