PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Name Calling, Class Discrimination, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
23 Dec 2015
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Definitions, examples: what is victimization (vs. bullying): form of aggression at the hands of peers that can take different forms at different ages. Examples: ignoring someone, excluding them, verbal taunts, etc. Direct: physical or verbal (social, electronic, racial, religious, sexual, disability) Indirect: relational (being left out, having rumors spread about you: bullying: repeated aggression in which there is an imbalance of power between the bully and the victim. Can come from size, age, strength, social status, intelligence, knowledge of specific vulnerability, membership in a socially dominant group (racism, sexism, homophobia, classism) Prevalences: were you victimized in the last two months? . Girls and boys experience roughly equal amounts of bullying: did you victimize other people in the last two months . Higher for boys than girls: percentage of victims/bullies: Slightly higher for boys: canada ranks 26th/27th out of about 35 countries in terms of how often kids are bullied.
