The document discusses the role of play in children's cognitive development. It defines play as activities that are freely chosen by children and done for their own intrinsic motivation. Studies show rats raised in enriched environments with toys had thicker brain cortices and were smarter than those in solitary confinement. While similar experiments cannot be done on children, human brains likely respond similarly to play and exploration. Play is linked to benefits like self-regulation, narrative recall, problem solving, and rule understanding. The document also covers types of play like social, constructive, fantasy, and games with rules.

1. The Role of Play in Children's
Cognitive Development
By: Seema, Sehrish, Sadaf

2. The Role of Play in Children's
Development
 Jeannine refers to play as “activity that is
unencumbered by adult direction, and does not
depend on manufactured items or rules imposed by
someone other than the kids themselves”(2007)
 Stuart Brown, Founder of the National Institute for
Play, has said that “play is anything that
spontaneously is done for its own sake(2008)
 Edward Miller and Joan Almon describe play as
“activities that are freely chosen and directed by
children and arise from intrinsic motivation.(2009)
According to some Educationist:

3. The Role of Play in Children's
Cognitive Development

4. The cognitive benefits of play:
 The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain
 In1964, Marion Diamond and her colleagues published an
exciting paper about brain growth in rats. The
neuroscientists had conducted a landmark experiment,
raising some rats in boring, solitary confinement and others in
exciting, toy-filled colonies.
 When researchers examined the rats’ brains, they discovered
that the “enriched" rats had thicker cerebral cortices than did
the “impoverished" rats (Diamond et al 1964).
 Subsequent research confirmed the results—rats raised
stimulating environments had bigger brains.
 They were smarter, too--able to find their way through mazes
more quickly (Greenough and Black 1992).
 Do these benefits of play extend to humans? Ethical
considerations prevent us from performing similar
experiments on kids. But it seems likely that human brains
respond to play and exploration in similar ways.

5. The cognitive benefits of play:
 A number of researchers have
focused on the relationship of play to
specific cognitive strategies such as:
 self-regulation
 narrative recall
 divergent problem solving
 rule understanding
 regulate their behavior

6. Some Theories of Cognitive
Development

9. Types Of Play
 Social Play
 Constructive Play
 Fantasy Play
 Games With Rules

10. Conclusion

11. The End