Equal-Status Contacts with Peers May Be of Special Developmental Significance

question 56

Multiple Choice

Equal-status contacts with peers may be of special developmental significance because they

• A) show children that they can occasionally dominate someone, a lesson they can't learn at home
• B) help children to understand and appreciate the perspectives of other people like themselves and thus contribute to social competencies that are difficult to acquire at home
• C) occur so much more often than mixed-age interactions
• D) all of these

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