PSY311H5 Chapter Notes -Showoffs, Homophily, Prosocial Behavior
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Peer relationships are briefer, freer, and more equal than relationships with adults. Also more likely to involve shared positive emotions and conflicts. They offer children opportunities for new types of interpersonal exploration, facilitate the growth of social competence, and open the way for children to form associations outside the family. Friend: a peer with whom the child has a special relationship. In the first 6months of life, babies touch and look at each other and are responsive to each other"s behaviors. But these early behaviors can"t be conserved truly social in the sense that an infant seeks and expects a response from another baby. It isn"t until the second half of the first year that infants begin to recognize a peer as a social partner. Between 6 and 12 months infants try to interact with other infants by vocalizing, waving, and touching. Social exchanges between infants are noticeable y different from those with adults.
