Exam 8: Ecology of the Peer Group

Getting along with others is related to the ability to _______________.

Oden & Asher (1977) identified four categories of social skills linked to the research on popularity. Which of the following is not one of those skills?

Using the concept of morality of cooperation, describe how a child might decide who gets to play on a kickball team at recess. Describe the difference between this and the morality of constraint.

The extent to which modeling influences behavior depends on

Peer groups begin to segregate boys and girls starting in

Loosely organized reference groups of cliques are called

You observe 3-year-old Karla standing in one corner of your preschool room. She is watching the other children play and occasionally talking to them. We would classify Karla's actions as

_________ is an intervention designed to help children who have trouble making and keeping friends learn to relate to others.

In a study by Adler & Adler (1998), a child was likely to be expelled from the group if he/she

Gangs are usually made up of how many cultural groups?

Some children are able to acknowledge that friendship involves give-and-take. However, these children often still see friendship as mutually serving individual interests rather than mutually cooperating toward a common interest. These traits are characteristic of

Play that involves fighting, wrestling, and/or chasing is called _________.

Positive Peer Culture (PPC) aims to

Which parenting style often has children who alienate themselves from parental values and are attracted to the peer group to gain understanding and acceptance?

Play in which children manipulate objects, such as by emptying, filling and inserting with organization, is which kind of play?

Howes (1988) examined relationships among toddlers in a child care center. Howes found that children differentiated between friends and playmates at least by age

The collective term for resources provided by others in times of needs is _________.

Jane belongs to a group in which if one wants to participate in the group, one freely accepts the rules. In Jane's group, rules are imposed on oneself by oneself. Jane's group membership would be characterized as ascribing to a(n)

Gang members usually come from families with _________ adult supervision.

The socializing mechanism peers use to influence behavior is