Question

Cindy, a six-year-old girl, is playing with plastic cubes like the rest of the children in her class. In the class, everyone has their individual set of cubes and individual figures to construct. Cindy, however, interacts with her friend to understand how to stack the plastic cubes so that she can construct her own model. In this scenario, Cindy is engaged in _____.

Answer 1

Associative play

Step-by-step explanation:

Associative play refers to children playing in a group in which every one of them is doing a separate activity but at the same time there exists cooperation between them.

Usually, during the associative play, there is a common activity being done but this activity is not done in teams or groups but rather individually.

However, children do observe other kids to see how things are done, get new ideas and also to get help on making something.

In the example, Cindy's class is playing with plastic cubes, everyone has their own individual set of cubes (so they are not working as a team), however she interacts to understand how to stack the plastic cubes and this is helpful to her, so there's cooperation in the group. Therefore this is an example of Associative play.