PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sand Art And Play, Peer Pressure
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Week 9 chapter 12: expanding the social world: peers and friends. How peers help to socialize children: modelling behaviours, teaching and reinforcing ( peer pressure , social comparison and the developing self. Sociometric techniques: a procedure for determining children"s status within their peer group in which peers nominate others whom they like best or least or rate each child in the group for her likeability or desirability as a companion. Child"s cognitive and social skills (ability to interact with other and to communicate effectively) 5 stages (processing and acting on social info: encodes cue, 2. In western societies, children spend most of their time with same-age peers, playing less than one third of the time with children 2+ yrs older or younger. Consequences of rejected children = poor achievement, school avoidance and loneliness. Reputational bias: children"s tendency to interpret peers behaviour on the basis of past encounters with and feeling about them.
