PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Peer Group, Peer Pressure, Reinforcement
1 May 2017
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Chapter 12: expanding the social world: peers and friends. Relationships w/ peers are less enduring than family relationships and are more egalitarian. Facilitates growth of social competence, encourages sense of social justice, opens way for kids to form relationships outside the family. Even in earliest months, babies react to each other. Once they can speak, social interaction truly gets under way. By 3: prefer to interact w/ peers over adults. These early responses not considered true social interaction. It"s not until the second half of first year that infants begin to recognize peer as social partner. B/w 6-12 m/o, infant will start influencing another infant by vocalizing, looking, waving, touching. At this age, kids show ability to interact in groups. As kids develop competence in interacting w/ peers, they shift towards social play and start preferring peer interactions over adult ones.
