PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Psy, European Canadian, Asian Canadians
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By age 4 or 5 children usually claim to have a best friend and at that point the key elements of friendship are a mutual liking for one another and they enjoy playing together. By age 8-11 friendship begins to revolve around mutual liking and shared activities as well as trust and assistance. By adolescence, friendship involves intimacy as well as the previous aspects stated. Intimacy is more present in friendships among girls who are more likely to have. Loyalty goes hand in hand with this. In childhood and adolescence friends are usually alike in: Girls and boys are equally likely to have other-sex friendships but important to understand why some kids have only other-sex friends which is unusual for age group kids in this situation tend to be/have: **rejected by same-sex peers so turn to other-sex peers as last resort.
