With the conception of first friendships developed in early childhood comes the introduction of social problem solving. This mechanism concerns both generating and applying strategies to resolve disagreements. Resulting outcomes are beneficial to the individual and acceptable to others. Diverse social understandings largely contribute to the decided outcome. Children ages 2-4 increasingly exhibit positive emotion when negotiating and interacting with their peers. Additionally, 5-7 year olds have the ability to deliberate alternative plans concerning peers when their initial ideas fail (Berk & Meyers, 2016). The model below organizes the steps of social problem solving using an information-processing approach. This approach explicitly describes the steps a child must exercise to solve a social problem (Crick & Dodge, 1994).
