PSY302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sociometric Status, Contingency Management, Cooties
12 May 2016
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Children learn best when cooperating and working together with others. Operating at similar levels of behavioural complexity. Can teach you what other people"s views and perspectives are and what they would put up with. Older peer learns compassion, caregiving skills, prosocial behaviour, assertiveness, leadership skills; especially useful for younger siblings to learn this. Younger peer learns older peer"s skills, to seek assistance, to defer gracefully to more powerful peers, social skills, intellectual skills; especially useful for older siblings to learn this. You spend more time with peers, less time with parents. You tend to spend less time with people your own age and more time with older peers. Mother-only monkeys: failed to develop normal patterns of social behaviour; aggressive towards other monkeys their own age. Raised monkeys together with the same peer group, and never with their mother: not aggressive towards monkeys in their peer group, aggressive towards other peers.
