{"id":74474,"date":"2025-11-14T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/psychology-of-play\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:21","slug":"psychology-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/psychology-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology of play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the study of play as a special type of activity and relationships. It was actively studied by the Soviet psychologist D.B. Elkonin. In the traditions of Soviet psychology, play is considered as a game activity and a special form of mastering social reality, in which the child models the relationships of adults. Play activity is the leading activity of a preschool child. Play does not arise spontaneously, but is formed under the influence of adults. In the game, the child learns to act in a conceivable field, which creates the basis for the development of abstract thinking. The structural components of play activity include: plot, content, role and rules.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the study of play as a special type of activity and relationships. It was actively studied by the Soviet psychologist D.B. Elkonin. In the traditions of Soviet psychology, play is considered as a game activity and a special form of mastering social reality, in which the child models the relationships of adults. Play activity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-11-key-psychological-concepts-in-educational-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}