Educational Psychology / Unit 3 EDP 0253 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Peers Teach
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The idea
Peers teach children to start and keep up interactions, manage conflict and cooperate; acceptance feeds self-esteem, while rejection foreshadows later problems.
In practice
Two children argue over a game's rules and settle on a compromise themselves.
Where people slip
In adolescence friendship shifts toward intimacy and loyalty, and peers become a key source of social comparison.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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