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jwb375

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Describe peer relations in the middle childhood years.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

At about eighteen months of age, children show a virtual explosion in the acquisition of new words. This explosion is called
 
  a. the nominal dynamic. c. early language absorption.
  b. the verbal dynamic explosion. d. the vocabulary spurt.



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Answer to Question 1

Elementary school children engage in group activities that involve larger numbers of children and often primarily include only members of their own sex. Quarrels and physical aggression with peers begins to wane and prosocial behaviors, such as sharing and helping others, increase. Rough-and-tumble playphysical interactions that are not intended to harm a playmateemerges during the preschool years and increases during the early elementary school years, especially among boys. This form of play may function as a way to establish dominance relationships among peers.

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