Economically disadvantaged preschool children were trained in one of three types of fantas
It was found that the physical enactment of fantasy experiences markedly improved children's performance on a variety of measures of intellectual functioning, empathy, length of resistance before touching an attractive but forbidden toy, and other measures of impulse control. Simply listening to and discussing the stories was usually no more effective than the control situation. In addition, the results suggested that fantasy play, which was farther removed from reality, such as that involving fairy tales, had more positive consequences than sociodramatic play dealing with more common experiences. Imaginative sociodramatic play can be used successfully as a means of facilitating cognitive development and self - control in young children.
The passage mainly concerns ______.
A.imaginative sociodramatic play
B.economically disadvantaged,children
C.training children in fantasy
D.experiments on children's intelligence