Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

• 12.2 -Infant Peer Interaction
  This one-minute video shows the social interaction of two infants as they laugh and respond to each other.

• 12.3 - Toddler Peer Interaction
  These toddlers are mimicking and following each other.

• 12.4 - Pretend Play
  This video focuses on the development of pretend play in children.

• 12.5 - What is a Friend?
  Children describe in their own words what a friend is.

• 12.6 - Adolescent Friendships
  Research highlights the importance role of friendships play during adolescence.

• 12.7 - Cliques and Crowds
  Teens describes the cliques and crowds at their schools.

• 12.10 - Sexting
  The video, made for a teen audience, graphically shows how sexting places a young person at risk.

• 12.11- Dating Violence
  This public service announcement on dating violence shows how the violence can escalate unless the young person discloses what is happending.

Video Links

• Social Cognition
  Professor Marcus Munafo discusses current research on social cognition, including the interpretation of ambiguous faces.

• False Belief Experiment
  Watch a 3-year-old take the false belief task, and how this changes by the time a child becomes 4.

• Play is More Than Fun
  A TED lecture on the benefits of all different types of play.

• The Benefits of Risk in Play
  Do you agree with this video that says that adults must let children experience some level of risk during this play in order to learn?

• Play Therapy
  This video describes how play therapy is conducted and the benefits that accrue from it for children.

• Fantasy Play
  The video discusses the importance of fantasy play for kindergarteners and argues against replacing play with academic activities and high-stakes testing.

• Universally Accessible Playgrounds (2:07)
  This video shows how playground equipment can be adapted to fit the special needs of children.

• Children's Friendships
  Professor William Bukowski discusses his research on child and adolescent friendships and their impact on development.

• Adolescent Cliques
  Description of adolescent cliques and why they exist.

• Peer Pressure
  Friendships take on a special importance in early adolescence, and most pressure from peers is positive pressure.

• Bullying
  Anderson Cooper talks to experts about the problem of bullying.

• Bullying Prevention Programs
  Children describe in their own words what bullying is, then the video describes the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.

• Relationship Violence
  The PBS series In the Mix explores abusive romantic relationships during adolescence.

Audio Links

• Play and Learning
  The importance of play in the development of different skills.

• Bullying Bystanders
  Bystanders can help to break the bullying cycle.