Chapter 12 Social Development

Question 1

Understanding and thinking about how people interact with one another.

Answer 1

Social cognition

Question 2

The inability to understand and theorize about other peoples thoughts

Answer 2

Mindblindness

Question 3

The understanding that someone else may believe something that a. child knows to be untrue

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False belief

Question 4

An experimental task used to assess a child’s understanding that others may believe something the child knows to be untrue.

Answer 4

False belief paradigm

Question 5

The ability to think about other people thinking about your thinking

Answer 5

Recursive thinking

Question 6

A tendency to interpret the innocent behavior of others as intentionally hostile rather than bengin

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Hostile attributional bias

Question 7

An inability to play because the child’s emotions are preventing the kind of free expression linked with the fun of play

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Play disruption

Question 8

The ability to think about other people thinking about your thinking

Answer 8

Recursive thinking

Question 9

An inability to play because the child’s emotions are preventing the kind of free expression linked with the fun of play.

Answer 9

Play disruption

Question 10

The type of play that involves large muscle activity

Answer 10

Physical activity play

Question 11

Repeated large muscles movement that have no purpose, such as kicking the legs or waving the hands, usually seen in infants.

Answer 11

Rhythmic stereotypes

Question 12

Play in young children that involves large muscles movement, such as running or jumping

Answer 12

Exercise play

Question 13

Play that looks like fighting or wrestling, where the goal is not to hurt or win, but to have fun

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Rough-and- tumble play

Question 14

A way to help children work through difficult feelings with the help of an adult who is trained to understand play as a type of communication

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Play therapy

Question 15

Looking around at whatever occurs but engaging in no activity

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Unoccupied behavior

Question 16

Watching other children play

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Onlooker behavior

Question 17

Engaging activity with toys that are different from those being used by other children

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Solitary Independent play

Question 18

Playing next to a peer wit the same type of materials but not interacting with the other. child

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Parallel Play

Question 19

Sharing toys and interacting with peers but without a common goal

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Associative play

Question 20

Play with peers that have a common goal

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Cooperative play

Question 21

A mutual relationship marked by companionship, closeness and affection

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Friendship

Question 22

Performing a certain behavior repetitively for the mere pleasure of it

Answer 22

Practice play

Question 23

Using symbolic representations and imagination for play

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Symbolic/sociodramatic play

Question 24

Making up rules for a games or playing game with preestablished rules

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Games with rules

Question 25

Building or making something for the purpose of play

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Constructive play

Question 26

The level of peer acceptance or peer rejection of an individual in the peep group

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Social status

Question 27

A research technique used to assess a child’s social status within the peer group

Answer 27

Sociometry

Question 28

Children who receive a lot of nominations as “like most” and few as “like least” on a sociometric measures

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Popular children

Question 29

Children who receive a lot of nominations as “like least” and few “like most” on a sociometric measure

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Rejected children

Question 30

Children who receive a number of nominations for “like most” and “like least” that is close to the medium in the peer group on a sociometric measure

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Average children

Question 31

Children who receive relatively few nominations either as “like most” or as “like least” on a sociometric measure

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Neglected children

Question 32

Children who receive both a large number of nominations for “like most” and a large number of nominations for “like least” from peers on a sociometric measure

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Controversial children

Question 33

Children who are popular among peers because they are low on aggression and have a number of desirable characteristics

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Popular-prosocial children

Question 34

Children who are popular with peers by combining prosocial behavior with social manipulation

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Popular-antisocial children

Question 35

Children who are rejected by peers because they are aggressive annoying, or socially unskilled.

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Rejected-aggressive children

Question 36

Children who are rejected by peers because they are socially withdrawn and anxious

Answer 36

Rejected-withdrawn children

Question 37

The extent to which a child is affected by peer rejection

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Rejection sensitivity

Question 38

A preference for playing with other children of the same gender

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Gender segregation

Question 39

Small groups of friends who spend time together and develop close relationships

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Cliques

Question 40

Large, reputation-based groups that are based on a shared stereotype but whose members do not necessarily spend time together

Answer 40

Crowds

Question 41

Being exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions on the part of peers, including physical bullying, verbal bullying, and/or emotional bullying.”

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Bullying

Question 42

Harming others socially using electronic services like email or social media.

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cyberbullying

Question 43

An approach to teaching that children emphasizes allowing children to discover for themselves new information and understanding

Answer 43

discovery learning

Question 44

The ability to understand self and others as agents who act on the basis of their mental states, such as beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions.

Answer 44

Theory of mind

Question 45

Influence exerted by peers to get others to comply with their wishes or expectations.

Answer 45

peer pressure