Completing direct questions of Lifespan class

Answer the following questions as a way of taking N otes about Chapter 6, pages 187-201:

PLAY

1. Define “rough and tumble play,” “fantasy play,” and “collaborative pretend play.”

2. Identify a specific purpose of play in young children for physical, social, emotional and cognitive development, according to the text. Give a specific example for each purpose listed.

3. What does Belsky say is the danger in intervening with the play of young children?

4. When does gender-segregated play tend to appear? Describe some of the different ways boys and girls tend to play in elementary school.

FRIENDSHIPS

5. Describe some of the differences observed in how preschoolers described their friendships compared with elementary aged children.

6. In the research on popularity described in the text, what is the definition of popular children, average children, and rejected children?

7. Identify the factors that this research found that contribute to why some of the children were rejected by their peers. Be sure to include how the bidirectional process can impact this.

8. By middle school, what is one change from elementary school researchers found in the children who were now considered “popular” by their peers?

9. Describe your understanding, based on the text, of what can happen long-term to the children who were in the “rejected” category in elementary school.

10. Define “bullying” and being a “bully-victim.” Describe your understanding of externalizing and internalizing behaviors as they relate to bullying and being a victim.

11. What are some of the long-term effects of bullying described in the text?

12. Describe your understanding of why traditional advice on how to handle bullying is ineffective.

13. Describe your understanding of the components of the “real solution” to bullying as described in your text.

14. What are some of the interventions Belsky describes that parents/teachers/caregivers can do to help prevent bullying from a very young age?