A4 - Social development across the life stages

Question 1

How do children learn and practise social skills?

Answer 1

Through play

Question 2

What does social development involve?

Answer 2

Learning how to interact socially with other individuals in the family and society

Question 3

What does play develop?

Answer 3

• A sense of self
• Learn to interact with other children
• How to make freinds
• How to role play

Question 4

What did Piaget highlight?

Answer 4

The importance of play for learning and development

Question 5

What is play essential for?

Answer 5

Communication skills, negotiating roles and beginning to appreciate the feelings of other children

Question 6

What are the two ages of solo play?

Answer 6

0-1 year
12 - 18 months

Question 7

What happens in solo play at age 0-1 years?

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

What happens in solo play at age 12-18 months

Answer 8

• Begins to play and talk alone
• Repeats actions and starts to play with adults
• Notices other children

Question 9

What is the age of parallel play?

Answer 9

18 months to 2 years

Question 10

What happens In parallel play?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

What age is associative play?

Answer 11

3-4 years

Question 12

What happens in associative play?

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

What are the two ages of cooperative play?

Answer 13

4-6 years
6-8 years

Question 14

What happens in cooperative play at age 4-6 years

Answer 14

• Begin to use simple rules in games
• Plays cooperatively towards a shared goal
• Takes turns when playing table top games with other children

Question 15

What happens in cooperative play at age 6-8 years?

Answer 15

• Begins to enjoy playing in small groups
• Make up own games and rules
• Enjoying understanding and using roles
• Don’t like losing

Question 16

What are the social benefits of friendship groups?

Answer 16

• Help cope with traumatic life events
• Help maintain a healthy lifestyle
• Help avoid loneliness

Question 17

What happens during adolescence socially?

Answer 17

• Become more independant
• Socialise outside the family
• Gain more freedom
• Peer groups influence values and opinions

Question 17

What happens during adolescence socially?

Answer 17

• Become more independant
• Socialise outside the family
• Gain more freedom
• Peer groups influence values and opinions

Question 18

What to young children to tend to form relationships on?

Answer 18

Play

Question 19

What happens in infancy in social development?

Answer 19

• 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

Question 20

What happens in childhood in social development?

Answer 20

• 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

Question 21

What happens in adolescence in social development?

Answer 21

• Sense of self worth influenced by peers not family
• Copy values etc by freinds

Question 22

What happens in early adulthood in social development?

Answer 22

• Friendship networks important
• dominated by forming intimate partners
• Marriage and parenthood

Question 23

What happens in middle adulthood in social development?

Answer 23

• Experience time pressures which may limit social activity

Question 24

What happens in later adulthood in social development?

Answer 24

• Retirement allows for more free time to develop new friendships