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Peer Relationships
( we will not cover media or schooling)

2. Development of Peer Sociability
Infant and toddler beginnings
Preschool years
Nonsocial activity
Parallel play
Associative play
Cooperative play

3. Development of Peer Sociability
Middle childhood and adolescence
Rough-and-tumble play
Dominance hierarchy

4. Influences on Peer Sociability
Direct parental influences
Indirect parental influences
Age mix of children
Cultural values

5. Friendship Friendship
Close relationship involving companionship and wanting to be with friend

6. Friendship Level 1: Friendship as a handy playmate
About 4 to 7 years
Level 2: Friendship as mutual trust and assistance
About 8 to 10 years
Level 3: Friendship as intimacy and loyalty
11 to 15 years+

7. Friendship Characteristics of friendships
Friendship selectivity and stability
Interaction between friends
Resemblance between friends
Sex differences in friendships

8. Friendship Friendship and adjustment
Opportunities to explore the self and develop understanding of another
Foundation for future intimate relationships
Support in dealing with stress
Attitudes toward school

9. Peer Acceptance Sociometric techniques Popular children
Rejected children
Controversial children
Neglected children

10. Origins of Acceptance Popular children Rejected children
Popular-prosocial children
Popular-antisocial children
Rejected children
Rejected-aggressive children
Rejected-withdrawn children
Controversial children
Neglected children

11. Peer Groups
First peer groups
Cliques
Crowds

12. Peer Relations and Socialization
Peer reinforcement and modeling
Peer conformity