This template shows the role of play in children's cognitive development. Playing enhances their self-regulation, which means the ability to manage one's emotional and physical reaction. Then, it influences their attention, the ability to take notice of someone or something. Symbolic thinking: use of symbols or internal images to represent people and things and events that are not currently happening or present. Finally, it allows the development of multiple intelligences: the way we process different kinds of information. Learn more details from this diagram, and hope it will help you in some degree!