Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Peers and Friends

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				A developmentalist who identified the process about how children and adolescents decode social cues.


2				A psychoanalytic theorist who believed that "chumships" or friendships were even more fundamental than parent-child relationships to the development of adolescents.


3				An observer of young children at play who found that the nature of pretend play in boys involves superhero roles while in girls it involves portraying familial characters.


4				The individual who studied peer relations for four decades, especially how peers exert more influence in friendship choices while parents are more influential in academic choices and job preferences.


5				Two researchers from Laurentian University who reported that students' school goals are scaffolded by the parent-child relationship.


6				A Canadian-based researcher who studies the relationship between play and social competence in preschoolers.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

A)	Willard Hartup
B)	Catherine Garvey
C)	Kenneth Dodge
D)	Brian Bigelow and Run Min Zhou
E)	Ken Rubin
F)	Harry Stack Sullivan

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