PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes -Peer Group, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Peer Pressure
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Ch 8: peers: the wider world of social development. Kids relaitons with peers differ from relations with adults. Peer is another child of roughly the same age, friend is a peer with whom the child has a special relationship. Kids form groups of peers with defined boundaries and social organization= cliques, teams and crowds and these groups dev own norms, rules and hierarchies that regulate actiivites of other group members. Kids are active social partners from very early age. In first 6 months of infancy, babies touch and look at eahcother and are responsive to eachothers beahviors at second half of first year they begin to recognize a peer as asocial partner. Social exchanges between infants are shorter and less sustained because infants are less reliably responsive than adults. They are likely to smile or laugh during positive social interaction and as they grow older, kids prefer to interact with peers rather than adults.
