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Play preference and its relationship to egocentrism, popularity and classification skills in preschoolers.

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According to Piaget, the child's growing repertoire of logical skills evolves as a result of maturational processes and of the changing nature of his interactions with the environment. For example, Piaget (1926) believes that one crucial factor in the decline of egocentric thought and the onset of role-taking skills is peer interaction. During peer interaction the young child often receives information dissonant from his own, thus creating a conflict whereby he is forced to take the points of view of other persons. If the focus of the interaction happens to be a cognitive activity (e.g., as in a small group discussion of a classification problem, see Sigel, Roeper, & Hooper, 1966), then dissonant feedback can evoke a state of disequilibrium which, when resolved, leads to a more mature level of logical thought. Piaget's beliefs concerning the relationship of social interaction to cognitive development have been supported by recent findings that have re ported significant correlations between measures of popularity among peers and cognitive development as tested by measures of classifi cation and seriation (Rardin & Moan, 1971) and communicative ego centrism (Deutsch, 1974; Rubin, 1972). Ostensibly, popularity is equated with a high degree of peer interaction. Peer conflict inducing paradigms in which children discuss particular logical problems also have been utilized to successfully accelerate both conservation (Mur ray, 1972) and spatial decentration skills (Wilmshurst & Rubin, 1974). While the above mentioned studies have suggested that child in teraction is crucial to the development of cognitive skills, little, if any, research has directly related qualitative differences in child's play to the growth of logical thought. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to carefully examine the relationship between Piaget's (1962)

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