PSYCH 3400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Prosocial Behavior, Social Rejection, Relational Aggression
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Empathy: feeling the exact emotion that another person is experiencing. Sympathy: feeling upset for a person who needs help. Prosocial behavior that are carried out for selfless, non-egocentric reasons. Play that involves shoving, wrestling, and hitting, but in which no actual harm is intended. Play that involves making up and acting out a scene. Fantasy play in which children work together to develop and act out the scenes. Play in which boys and girls associate only with members of their own sex. Allows for children to practice adult roles. Boy traits: rambunctious, play in larger groups, competition, dominance, rigid gender barriers. Girl traits: play in intimate groups, cooperative, flexible gender barriers. Socialization: parents may say that little boys don"t play with dolls, a way to socialize your child into an appropriate type of play. Once children know their own gender label they selectively watch and model their own sex.
