Exam 15: Peers

Jasmin is a rejected child.She

Adolescents who develop extreme orientation to their peer group,to the extent of ignoring parents and schoolwork to be popular,are more likely to become involved with

All of the following are true of children's friendships except

In ________ play,children interact with each other,often providing mutual suggestions.

Paolo was new to his school and did not initiate much contact with any of his classmates.To help Paolo develop his social skills,Mr.Watts decided to encourage Paolo for his successive attempts to get involved with his classmates.When Paolo started to look interested in groups of children at play,Mr.Watts would tell him that was a step in the right direction;when Paolo tried to share his toys with another child,Mr.Watts told him he was doing very well;and when Paolo engaged himself in a group of children by telling a joke,Mr.Watts told him that he was becoming a regular "pro." Mr.Watts made use of the _________ training strategy.

In sociometric nomination procedures,________ children receive low numbers of nominations in both the positive and negative categories.Although they lack friends,they are not disliked.

The dominance hierarchies among members of a peer group form

During the middle childhood years,quarrels and physical aggression with peers increase.

One of the most dramatic ways in which popular and rejected children differ is in their knowledge and use of social skills.Discuss the ways in which they differ and the implications of this information for specific parenting practices.

Dr.VanLeeuwen wants to study peer groups.When she places together several children who are unfamiliar with one another,they form an infrastructure based on power relationships called

The method of evaluating peer group relations and popularity that asks children to report with whom other children associate is called

In sociometric nomination procedures,________ children receive many more positive than negative nominations.

When peers report children as rejected,they tend to categorize them as

By age fourteen,association with antisocial friends was found to contribute statistically to the tendency to engage in

Rejected children tend to express more anger in their facial expressions and verbalizations in contexts such as losing a game and show ______ as they behave aggressively toward their peers.

Modeling is probably the most popular form of social skills training.

The Robber's Cave Study investigated

The patterns of peer acceptance that are established in the early school years change for years afterwards.

In sociometric nomination procedures,________ children receive high numbers of both positive and negative nominations.They have a high degree of social impact and are very visible,but are generally not preferred as social partners.

Cora is very shy and usually does not initiate play or discussion with her peers.Her teachers and parents are concerned about Cora's social competence and have begun to discuss Cora's difficulties with her.They are instructing Cora in how to initiate conversations with her peers.Cora's teachers and parents are using a training technique called