ld’s needed exploration of their environment. Furthermore, a child at play is not only developing basic motor skills but is also beginning to understand how the world relates to them personally because plays seems to further the nature psychological ability present in each person child of object permanence. This ability to imagine, “an object even though it is not presently sensed,” as the text says, is the foundation of human cognition. In effect, the fantasies created by a child during play which the text summarized as, “a pleasurable activity engaged in for its own sake, with means emphasized rather than ends,” which is, “not usually engaged in as a serious activity and is flexible in that it varies in form or context,” stimulates and cultivates the entire process of thought in a human being. The reality that a great deal of a person’s thought is formulated during play makes it a subject worth studying. One such study was conducted by Mildred Parten. In her study Parten observe 42 children between the ages of 2 and 4½ years old at play which lead her to identify five distinct ways in which children play. In the model, produced as a result of this experiment, children tend to become more social as they age. The child increases their social active by gradually begin to stop playing solitarily. Parten, believes that the move a child makes from playing alone to playing with other, called associative play, is done by a phenomenon, known as parallel play, in which children begin to parallel their behavior after one-another. According to Parten, as children spent more and more time at play during the associative stage of play they slowly begin to structure their actions around rules and this is identified as cooperative play. Imagination remains prevalent throughout the various types of play because the amount of mental activity increases at each stage of a child’s social development. Parten’s final stage of cooperative play wouldn’t be possible if the children didn’t agree upon the parameters to governs their play which requires that they share the same idea or vision, an event the text referred to as, “social fantasy play.” This constant sharing by a chil

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