Exam 8: Supporting Children's Peer Relationships and Friendships

A friendship skit can be used to model appropriate friendship skills.

Which of the following characteristics is often displayed by peer-neglected children?

During the friendship stage of one-way assistance, children often try out different social roles.

Adult: "Why is Craig your friend?"?Child: "He's my friend because he will play what I like to play." Which level of friendship is this child demonstrating?

It is important to tell children in advance if their friend is moving away.

It is a substantiated fact that children who move frequently have well-developed friendship skills.

Which of the following strategies have been associated with improving children's friendship skills?

Teaching children to say, "Hello, I'm Charlie. I'd like to play too." is a good strategy.

A child who avoids an argument by suggesting an agreeable solution is demonstrating skill in what phase of the friendship-making process?

What are two normal reactions children exhibit when they lose a friend?

One's attractiveness is highly correlated to one's desirability as a friend.

A lack of friends is known to cause juvenile delinquency.

During the period of intimate, mutually shared relationships, friends lose their possessiveness of one another.

Children who are less attractive are naturally more friendly than children who are physically appealing.

Children who lack friendship skills benefit from watching skilled children interact.

By the time they are six or seven, children have achieved a mature sense of friendship.

List three pitfalls to avoid in supporting children's friendships.

The last step in implementing a friendship skit is to thank children for their attention.

People go through six stages in achieving mature concepts of friendships.

Children's earliest friends are those who exhibit personality traits they admire.