A4 - Social development across the life stages Flashcards
How do children learn and practise social skills?
Through play
What does social development involve?
Learning how to interact socially with other individuals in the family and society
What does play develop?
- A sense of self
- Learn to interact with other children
- How to make freinds
- How to role play
What did Piaget highlight?
The importance of play for learning and development
What is play essential for?
Communication skills, negotiating roles and beginning to appreciate the feelings of other children
What are the two ages of solo play?
0-1 year
12 - 18 months
What happens in solo play at age 0-1 years?
- Looks at adults closely
- Puts things in mouth and touches things with hands
- Plays alone with boys
- Gradually begins to play simple games
- Begins to explore toys alone
What happens in solo play at age 12-18 months
- Begins to play and talk alone
- Repeats actions and starts to play with adults
- Notices other children
What is the age of parallel play?
18 months to 2 years
What happens In parallel play?
- Begin to enjoy repetitive actions
- Begins to copy other children and adults
- Enjoy playing with adults and on own
- Learn to complete tasks from trial and error
What age is associative play?
3-4 years
What happens in associative play?
- Begins to play co-operatively with other children
- Show reasoning skills by asking questions
- Join in pretend and fantasy games negotiating and taking on roles
What are the two ages of cooperative play?
4-6 years
6-8 years
What happens in cooperative play at age 4-6 years
- Begin to use simple rules in games
- Plays cooperatively towards a shared goal
- Takes turns when playing table top games with other children
What happens in cooperative play at age 6-8 years?
- Begins to enjoy playing in small groups
- Make up own games and rules
- Enjoying understanding and using roles
- Don’t like losing
What are the social benefits of friendship groups?
- Help cope with traumatic life events
- Help maintain a healthy lifestyle
- Help avoid loneliness
What happens during adolescence socially?
- Become more independant
- Socialise outside the family
- Gain more freedom
- Peer groups influence values and opinions
What happens during adolescence socially?
- Become more independant
- Socialise outside the family
- Gain more freedom
- Peer groups influence values and opinions
What to young children to tend to form relationships on?
Play
What happens in infancy in social development?
- A built in tendency to interact with carers
- By 2 months they may smile at humans
- At 3 months they’ll respond when you talk
- At 5 months they can distinguish between people
What happens in childhood in social development?
- Emotionally attached and dependent on adults which care for them
-Family may give a safe base for children to explore - Become increasingly independent
- Friendships become increasingly important
What happens in adolescence in social development?
- Sense of self worth influenced by peers not family
- Copy values etc by freinds
What happens in early adulthood in social development?
- Friendship networks important
- dominated by forming intimate partners
- Marriage and parenthood
What happens in middle adulthood in social development?
- Experience time pressures which may limit social activity
What happens in later adulthood in social development?
- Retirement allows for more free time to develop new friendships
