PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Relativism, Prosocial Behavior, Attribution Bias
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Psy302, section 011 (dr. ma) |child development | april 2 & 9, 2014| lectures 9 & 10. From ~20 months, children increasingly initiate more interactions with some children than with others. Peers: people of approximately the same age and status, helps develops equality, reciprocity, cooperation, and intimacy. Children may have friends by or before age 2. 12- to 18-month-olds seem to select and prefer some children over others. Choice of friends: for preschoolers: proximity is key (ex. same neighborhood, daycare, camp) and similarity (gender, age, sex, race) Age 6-8: define friendship primarily on the basis of actual activities and view friends in terms of rewards and costs (ex. I"m nice to her so she should be nice to me and therefore we can be best friends) Early school years - adolescence: experience and define friendships in terms of mutual liking, closeness and loyalty etc.
