Guide To The Playground Games

By Mayra Pierce


Chimpanzees and other primates have the ability to use representations, for example, some use verbal communication as part of a form of symbolic play. Games played by chimpanzees have the same characteristics as that of all mammals. The emergence of symbolic play occurs exclusively in human children, along with the symbolic language that is intrinsically inherent to their God given nature(the playground games).

In humans, after the emergence of symbolic play at age 2, begins a phase of social game in which children play more and more with each other and with adults, using the language. This social game requires the establishment of agreements, which eventually end up in formal suit, whose essential characteristic is that it's a game with clear rules.

It can be said that they like any sociocultural reality is impossible to define in absolute terms, and therefore the definitions specify some of its features. Among the well known concepts work as follows: In summary, these and many other creators including Moreno-Palos, etc. Include in definitions that cover numerous characteristics common to a variety of views, of which some are most representative.

Game always help build implicit or explicit relations between children bolstered by fun and educational reference. It is an activity that has the end in itself, ie, the individual performing the activity itself to achieving the goal that is to be pleasant. Game has an intrinsic purpose and character of conflict is liberating because it ignores the problems and solve them. One of its main features, which aims to make an ordinary business activity added motivation.

Game takes place in a separate fictional world, it like a game narrated action, away from everyday life, a continuous symbolic message. It a conventional activity, because every game the result of social contract established by the players, who designed game and determine its internal order, its limitations.

Expanding the memory and attention by stimuli that are generated. Foster runout thought. Develop imagination and creativity and the distinction between fantasy and reality. Promote the development of language and abstract thought. Game plays in mammals. Mammals play to learn. In fact the main feature of game is to learn.

Mammals are characterized by an evolved brain, long childhood, parental care, nursing pups, hunt group, social division and non-genetic work. Mammals play to hunt in a group, define hierarchies, exploration, division of labor, among others. Interaction between mammals (dogs, cats, water, primates) is based on imitation and exploration by trial and error. In some mammals there is a total lack of symbolic play.

Symbolic play is made on representations and not on real things. The cave paintings are the first example of symbolic play. Prehistoric man used them to act on the animals through their representations. Symbolic play all normal children is clearly present from 2 years of age. Symbolic play is present when a child picks up a rock and play with it like a car. This child is playing with the car, not the stone.




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