PSYC 2076 Chapter : Ch 14
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Chapter 14 friends and family: friendships in preschool and middle childhood, preschooler"s friendships. 1: around age 3, children develop real friendships. Doing something with in the moment: playing together remains an important part of all preschoolers" friendships. At the beginning of the preschool years, children typically engage in functional play define play that involves simple, repetitive activities typical of 3 year olds. By age 4, children typically engage in constructive play define play in which children manipulate objects to produce or build something. Constructive play allows children to test developing cognitive skills, practice motor skills, problem solve, and learn to cooperate. Older preschoolers engage more in constructive play than in functional play. They also engage in more associative and cooperative play than do younger preschoolers, who do more parallel and onlooker playing. Building friendship in middle childhood: friendships are becoming more important to kids as they move into middle childhood, partly because the nature of friendships starts to change.
