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“Pretend I'm the Princess”: Pretend Play Theory, Assessment, and Intervention

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1.  Collaborative pretend play is defined as the interdependent activity of two or more players who use symbolic transformations of each of the following EXCEPT:
  1. roles
  2. props
  3. events
  4. settings
  5. rules
2.  In the pretend play literature, metacommunication is defined as:
  1. talking about morphosyntax
  2. talking about semantics
  3. talking about pragmatics
  4. talking about ongoing play transaction
  5. talking about phonology
3.  Which of the following is NOT a criteria for pretend play?
  1. Decentration
  2. Contextualization
  3. Decontextualization
  4. Integration
4.  At what age are children competent in play, able to coordinate several scripts with multiple transformations?
  1. 5 years
  2. 6 years
  3. 7 years
  4. 4 years
5.  Which are standardized pretend play measures?
  1. Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales
  2. Symbolic Play Test
  3. Test of Pretend Play
  4. None of the above are standardized
  5. A,B and C
6.  Which is the best example of DECENTRATION or role transformation?
  1. Child announcing she’s the doctor
  2. Child taking a doll’s temperature with a chopstick
  3. Child giving doll a shot with a toy needle
  4. Child giving the doll a shot and then putting on a bandaid
  5. Child pretending to call the hospital by putting her hand to her ear
7.  Which is the best example of a Pretend Rule violation?
  1. “That’s not really a dragon”
  2. “I'm not the princess”
  3. “I don’t want to play with you”
  4. “This is a real sword”
  5. None are Pretend Rule violations
8.  Assessment of collaborative pretend play includes which of the following steps?
  1. Subjective assessment overall
  2. Objective assessment of script knowledge
  3. Collect and transcribe data
  4. Objective assessment of metacommunication skill
  5. All of the above are steps in the assessment of collaborative pretend play
9.  Which is NOT a therapeutic strategy for facilitating pretend play success?
  1. Teach script knowledge
  2. Insert yourself as actor and create play breakdowns that children have to repair
  3. Rehearse like a play, assigning parts, practicing dialog
  4. Have children practice only with adults
  5. Use video modeling for children on the spectrum
10.  Books can be used to facilitate pretend play skills when they do which of the following?
  1. Overtly use the word “pretend”
  2. Use animate animals
  3. Rhyme
  4. A & B
  5. All of the above