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The relationship between interaction with the caregiver and the emergence of play activities during the one‐word period
Author(s) -
Zukow Patricia Goldring
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1986.tb01014.x
Subject(s) - psychology , period (music) , social relation , developmental psychology , semantics (computer science) , word (group theory) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , social psychology , philosophy , physics , computer science , acoustics , programming language
The relationship between interaction with the caregiver and the emergence of play activities during the one‐word period was examined in this research. In particular, Vygotsky's views regarding the importance of social interaction as the source of the child's knowledge of the world were discussed. In order to examine the role of the caregiver, observations were made of six children, two at each of three levels of semantic development within the one‐word period. At each level of semantic development the children's performance during interactive play sequences was significantly more advanced than their performance during non‐interactive sequences. These results lend support to Vygotsky's contention that children gain knowledge of the world through social interaction.