The neighborhood playground where children congregate on weekends and during the summer to socialize ...

The neighborhood playground where children congregate on weekends and during the summer to socialize would be considered an example of:
 
  a. Social address
  b. Social arena
  c. Ecological niche
  d. Ecological arena

Ques. 2

Common ways that schools shape friendships and peer interactions is through:
 
  a. Curriculum tracking
  b. Extracurricular activities
  c. Recess and lunchtime
  d. All of the above

Ques. 3

The most common strategy parents use to influence their children's choices of friends is:
 
  a. Limit time with certain friends
  b. Talk about values
  c. Talk about future consequences
  d. Invite friends to the house

Ques. 4

Effective social skills are skills:
 
  a. Children are born with
  b. That can be taught
  c. That can only be modeled
  d. None of the above

Ques. 5

_____________ is important to maintaining peer relations and friendships in middle childhood.
 
  a. Paying compliments
  b. Impressing your friends
  c. Resolving conflict
  d. Sharing your allowance

Ques. 6

Imagine you are the director of an after-school program that has been asked to coach children in social skills as well as skills to help them maintain friendships. Based on successful practices, what are the concepts you will need to include in this program?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 7

Social needs, such as companionship, acceptance, and the need for belonging, that are fulfilled by having close friends are also referred to as:
 
  a. Survival needs
  b. Communal needs
  c. Agentic needs
  d. Social competence

Ques. 8

Yolanda does not have many friends, is somewhat shy but always behaves appropriately in school. She would most likely fit into which peer status?
 
  a. Popular
  b. Rejected
  c. Neglected
  d. Controversial

Ques. 9

Carolyn Pope Edwards (2002) reanalyzed data from a classic study that studied play behavior in six different cultures. List as many of these cultures as you can. Outline some of the major findings from this study. Finally, based on this study, comment upon the universality of play behavior in children and subsequent public policy.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 10

By ages 10 or 11, most school-age children demonstrate ____________ friendships, in which they recognize that friends are supposed to be loyal to each other.
 
  a. One-way
  b. Normative
  c. Empathic
  d. Intimate