health social devlopment

• involves learning how to socially interact with other individuals in the family and society in general.
• social development provides opportunity and skills that enable people to develop relationships
• not all individuals will experience social relationships in the same way
• solo play 


  babies will usally spend time playing on their own. they are exploring all aspects of their environment from the found of their own body parts to those of others. they want to gaze upon,grab,suck and rattle any object that comes their way.
• solo play examples

  • shake a rattle
  • clap
• parallel play 


  from the age of two to three, children move to playing alongside other children without much interaction with eachother. they will may be engage in similar activities or totally different activities but theylike being around other their age. even though it may appear that they don't care about the presence of the other children, just try separating them and you will see this contact from a far is very important to them.
• parallel play examples

  • two or more children playing blocks together but not talking to eachother
• associative play 


  begins to play co-opertavily with other children and starts to show reasoning skills, asking questions,why and how. they join in pretend and fantasy games neoogiating and taking on roles.
• associative play examples

  • two or more children palying with blocks building the same thing, talking with eachother but not working together to create something
• co-operative play 


  by the age of three, children are already for preschool. they are potty trained,able to commincate and solialize with others. they are able to share ideas and toys. through interactive play they begin to learn social skills such as sharing and taking turns. they also develop the ability to collabrorate on the theme of play activity. adults should only intervene when children exhibit the need for coaching on social and problem solving skills.
• co-operative play examples

  • concerned with solving problems by working together to achieve a common goal
• postives of banduras theory

  • supports social learning theory because he found that children to copy aggression
  • many tragedies, such as school shootings have been linked to tv and video game violence
  • uses scientific methodology
  • has led to understanding media violence, health psychology and treating disorders
• negatives of bandura's

  • many children watch violence but not all children copy it
  • watching violent tv and video games can actually lower aggression.this is because acts as a release for natural aggression
  • ignores personality differences
  • it could be that agressive children watch aggression on tv and paly violent video games rather than being affected by them.they could be naturally aggressive
  • does not take into account any biology or gentics
  • lab experiments are artificial and difficult to generalise to everyday living
  • unethical research on young children