The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits

By Gordon M. Burghardt. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children (2018, background): “‍ 25 It is also suggested play teaches young animals what they can and cannot do at times when they are relatively free from the survival pressures of adult Play and learning are inextricably linked.”
The Function of Play in the Development of the Social Brain. (2010, background): “The question has perplexed scientists for over a century (Burghardt 2005; Smith 1978).”
Learning Latent Plans from Play (2019, background): “What is play? Developmental psychologists and animal behaviorists have offered multiple definitions [7, 49, 20, 40, 60].”
Breaking the Social–Non‐social Dichotomy: A Role for Reptiles in Vertebrate Social Behavior Research? (2013, background): “Rivas, J. A. & Burghardt, G. M. 2002: Crotalomorphism: A metaphor to understand anthropomorphism by omission.”
Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures (2012, background): “Play may have different roles as a function of the sex of the players (Fagen 1981; Burghardt 2005; Pellis & Pellis 2009).”
The Elements of Play: Toward a Philosophy and a Definition of Play. (2014, background): “And Thomas Henricks, in his thoughtful Play Reconsidered (2006), noted that scholars have tended to isolate volition, pretending, ordering, seclusion, and secrecy.(2) Boil the lists down, and five basic qualities emerge: play is apparently purposeless, voluntary, outside the ordinary, fun, and focus”
The Development of Play (2015, background): “A more recent approach to defining play is that of Burghardt (2005, 2011), which sets out five criteria , all of which an activity must meet to qualify as play.”
How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “[aMAK] Burghardt, G. M. (2005) The genesis of animal play: Testing the limits.”
Environmental challenge and animal agency. (2011, background): “One of the defining features of play behaviour is that it is a spontaneous, intrinsically motivated activity that is being performed for its own sake rather than to achieve a consummatory goal such as to obtain food, escape a predator or gather information (Burghardt, 2005).”
Partner preferences and asymmetries in social play among domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, littermates (2008, unknown): “Hypotheses abound concerning the functions of social play (Burghardt 2005).”
Play in evolution and development (2007, background): “two important ways, however: The range of reaction and the norm of reaction views (Gottlieb, 2003). The reaction range is a high and low limit of responses to a “usual” environment and is set by the genotype, suggesting that behavioral responses at diVerent times in ontogeny were naturally selected ”
From game design elements to gamefulness: defining "gamification" (2011, background): “However, several scholars also point out that although that is the case, there are still certain observable formal properties of activities when they are playfully approached [11,22,45].”
Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences (2006, background): “ Burghardt 2005 ), so the play observed in New Caledonian crows could enable them to learn the wide range of tool-oriented behaviours displayed by the species in natural circumstances.”
Play behaviour in nonhuman animals and the animal welfare issue (2009, background): “Play behaviour is more readily identified in mammals, but it has evolved in many animal species, probably including invertebrates (Burghardt 2005).”