PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conduct Disorder, Sociometric Status, Lev Vygotsky
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Anna freud and sophie dann"s research: studied orphans liberated from a nazi concentration camp at the end of ww ii. What"s special about peer relationships: peers are people of approximately the same age and status, theorists such as piaget, vygotsky, and sullivan have argued that peer relationships provide a unique context for cognitive, social, and emotional development. In their view, the equality, reciprocity, cooperation, and intimacy that can develop in peer relationships enhance children"s reasoning ability and their concern for others. Friendships: intimate, reciprocated positive relationships between people, the degree to which the conditions of friendship become evident in peer interactions increases with age during childhood, early peer interactions: Some researchers have argued that children can have friends by or before age 2. Even 12- to 18-month-olds seem to select and prefer some children over others. Starting at around 20 months of age, children also increasingly initiate more interactions with some children than with others.
