List and Describe the Three Types of Competitive Games Discussed

question 18

Essay

List and describe the three types of competitive games discussed by Sutton-Smith in his cross-cultural analysis of children's play. In which type of culture is each type of game usually found?

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Definitions:

Nourishment

The provision of necessary materials, especially food, required by organisms and cells to stay alive, grow, and reproduce.

Waste Products

Substances that are produced as byproducts of biological, industrial, or other processes and are not of further use within that process.

Conjoined Twins

Twins that are physically attached to each other at birth, due to the incomplete splitting of the fertilized egg during early development.

Dizygotic Twins

Also known as fraternal twins, these are siblings that develop from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm cells, but are carried in the womb simultaneously.