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TRC 1307: Play It Like You Mean It: Definition & Theories Assignment

Definition & Theories Assignment

Reference Materials

Below are the appropriate databases you should search through for the Definitions and Theories assignment:

Theories

Surplus Energy Theory (Spencer, Schiller)

Lev Vygotsky’s Theory of Play

Older adults - Activity Theory (Havigurst & Albrecht, 1953; Lemon et al., 1972; Longino & Kart, 1982).

Instinctive Theory/Pre-exercise Theory (Groos – 1898, Rousseau)

Cathartic/Psychoanalytic Theory of Play (Sigmund Freud, Puhler, Anna Freud)

Older adults - Continuity Theory (Atchley, 1989, 1993)

Competence/Effectance Theory (Robert White)

Compensation Theory (Alfred Adler)

Older adults - Disengagement Theor (Cumming & Henry, 1961)

Recapitulation Theory (Granville Stanley Hall - 1844-1924, Wundt)

Growth Theories (Appleton)

Older adults -  Gerotranscendence (Tornstam, 2005).

Autotelic Theory, or Motivational Model -Flow Theory (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

Meta-communicative Theory (Erikson, 1955)

Older adults - Innovation Theory of Successful Aging (Nimrod, 2008; Nimrod & Kleiber, 2007).

Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (Jean Piaget)

Infantile Dynamics (Lewin, Buytendijk)

Older adults - Selective Optimization with Compensation (Baltes & Baltes, 1990).

Practice Theory of Play (C. Hutt and H. Day)

Ego Expanding Theories (Lange, Claparde)

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (Carstensen, 1993).

Recreation/Relaxation Theory (Lazarus 1883, Patrick 1916, Mitchell, Mason) Parten’s Classification of Play

Substitution Theory (e.g., Brunson & Shelby, 1993; Iso-Ahola, 1986; Kelly et al., 1987).

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