Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Montessori Education, Mental Model, Children'S Book Council Of Australia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Jackie Sullivan

Document Summary

Peer sociability is supported by & contributes greatly to development & serve as vital sources of support in threatening situations. Peer sociability begins in infancy with isolated social acts (grins, gestures), followed by coordinated exchanges in the second year: coordinated actions (sharing positive emotions, mutual imitation, like jumping together) Sociodramatic play (an advanced form of cooperative play) becomes especially frequent, supporting cognitive, emotional & social development. Developmental sequence of cognitive play categories (cognitive maturity) Simple, repetitive motor movements with or without objects. Running around a room, rolling a car back & forth, kneading clay with no intent to make something. Making a house out of toy blocks, drawing a picture, putting together a puzzle. Playing house, school or police officer, acting out storybook or tv characters. In middle childhood, improved perspective taking permits peer interaction to become more prosocial & cooperative & to transition to rule-oriented games. Boy-girl rough-and-tumble rises slightly in adolescence, perhaps through means of heterosexual interaction.