Look-look game
The peep-peep game (after the verb to watch ; English : Peek-a-boo , also peekaboo , translated Gucki-Buh , Swiss German : guguseli ) is a game for toddlers. In German-speaking countries it is also known as the cuckoo game (after the call of the cuckoo ).
game
In this game, the other player, often the mother, holds her hands over her eyes. Maybe she is squinting through her fingers. Then the mother takes her hands away again and calls boo or cuckoo . This interaction with a child can take place from the age of six months. The concept of object permanence is not yet fully developed in small children up to the age of 18 months . Objects outside of your field of vision, even if this is restricted, for example, only by a hand held in front of your eyes, cease to exist to a certain extent. A detailed study of this can be found in a paper by JS Bruner and V. Sherwood from 1976.
variants
Instead of covering their eyes, the caregiver can hide behind a door, a cloth or a curtain. After the exclamation “peep-peep” she comes out of the hiding place and calls out there I am or something like that. If the child has known the game for a long time, they will want to go on a discovery and remove the obstruction. From about one year of age, the child then also plays by hiding.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.handbuch-kindheit.uni-bremen.de/teil3_2.html
- ↑ Bruner, JS, & Sherwood, V. (1976). Peek-a-boo and the learning of rule structures. In J. Bruner, A. Jolly, & K. Sylva (Eds.), Play its role in development and evolution (pp. 277-287). Middlesex: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-465-05781-8
- ↑ http://www.rund-ums-baby.de/fremdeln.htm