The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence.

AS Lillard, MD Lerner, EJ Hopkins, RA Dore… - Psychological …, 2013‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we
examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to …

A meta-analysis of 25 years of mood-creativity research: Hedonic tone, activation, or regulatory focus?

M Baas, CKW De Dreu, BA Nijstad - Psychological bulletin, 2008‏ - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis synthesized 102 effect sizes reflecting the relation between specific
moods and creativity. Effect sizes overall revealed that positive moods produce more …

[كتاب][B] Creativity in the classroom: Schools of curious delight

AJ Starko - 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Now in its seventh edition, Creativity in the Classroom helps teachers link creativity research
and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Ideal reading for any course …

Linking executive function and peer problems from early childhood through middle adolescence

CJ Holmes, J Kim-Spoon, K Deater-Deckard - Journal of abnormal child …, 2016‏ - Springer
Peer interactions and executive function play central roles in the development of healthy
children, as peer problems have been indicative of lower cognitive competencies such as …

[كتاب][B] Child development: A practitioner's guide

D Davies - 2010‏ - books.google.com
This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of
developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The …

Defining and measuring creativity: Are creativity tests worth using?

AJ Cropley - Roeper review, 2000‏ - Taylor & Francis
Creativity tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently, making
associations, constructing and combining broad categories, or working on many ideas …

[كتاب][B] Play in child development and psychotherapy: Toward empirically supported practice

SW Russ - 2003‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool
of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that …

[كتاب][B] Affect and creativity: The role of affect and play in the creative process

SW Russ - 2013‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to
the picture of creativity--the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing …

Creativity in the making

S Moran, V John-Steiner, R Sawyer - Creativity and development, 2003‏ - books.google.com
In representing creativity as a social as well as an individual process, LS Vygotsky
introduced some of the most critical new notions that characterize current systems …

Meta‐analyses of the relationship of creative achievement to both IQ and divergent thinking test scores

KH Kim - The Journal of Creative Behavior, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
There is disagreement among researchers about whether IQ tests or divergent thinking (DT)
tests are better predictors of creative achievement. Resolving this dispute is complicated by …