{"id":7945,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fantasy_play\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:21","slug":"fantasy_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fantasy_play\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretend enactment of themes that commonly occurs in early childhood, with a tendency for the themes to be different between boys and girls. &nbsp;Some evidence suggests that for 3-4 year-olds that boys tend to indulge in more (active) fantasy play. &nbsp;Girls will make dolls the object of their play, while boys have a preference for (mechanical) toys. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Gender identity disorder, <a href=\"play\">Play<\/a>, <a href=\"play_fighting_-or_rough-and-tumble_play-\">Play fighting (or rough-and-tumble play)<\/a>, <a href=\"play_tutoring\">Play tutoring<\/a>, <a href=\"pretence\">Pretence<\/a>, Sex role, <a href=\"sex-typing\">Sex-typing<\/a>, Sociodramatic play<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretend enactment of themes that commonly occurs in early childhood, with a tendency for the themes to be different between boys and girls. &nbsp;Some evidence suggests that for 3-4 year-olds that boys tend to indulge in more (active) fantasy play. &nbsp;Girls will make dolls the object of their play, while boys have a preference for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fantasy_play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fantasy play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}