Pretend Play, Part 2: Theory of Mind and Imaginary Friends

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the world of pretend play in childhood development and human consciousness.

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0:42.4	Okay. to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick,
0:47.8	and we are back with part two in our series on pretend play, meaning play that involves non-literal action.
0:55.9	Now, this is really one of our series where I think, if you haven't heard part one,
1:00.3	I would really recommend you go back and listen to that one first,
1:02.9	because we really laid the groundwork there.
1:05.4	We establish a lot of the definitions and so forth.
1:08.9	But as a brief refresher in part one, Rob and I talked about
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