PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.1: Motor Action F.C.
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3-4 m/o looking + touching each other. 6 m/o: peer directed smiles and babbles. 1-2 y/o: understand that others have intentions, desires and emotions distinct from their own regard others as playmates. Exchanges promote peer engagement and joint understandings that aid verbal communication. Interactions with adults babies learn how to send and interpret emotional signals in their first peer associations. Nonsocial activity: unoccupied onlooker behavior and solitary play. Parallel play: limited form of social participation in which children play near each other with similar materials but do not try to influence each others behavior. Associative play: children engage in separate activities but exchange toys and comment on one another"s behavior. Cooperative play: advanced interaction in which children orient toward a common goal (e. g. acting out a make believe theme) Later appearing forms do not replace earlier ones in a developmental sequence, coexist. Older children engage in more cognitively mature behavior than younger children.
