HD FS 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mexican Americans, Social Learning Theory, Apache Hadoop
2 Sep 2016
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More children in the us grow up in a home with a sibling than with a father. No one else can fully appreciate (and perhaps commiserate about) the idiosyncrasies of their family life. Sibling relationships are the longest lasting relationships most people have. High levels of warmth and high levels of conflict. Switch from being best friends to being worse enemies in a snap. Relationships b/w firstborn and all other family members improve. Relationship b/w second-born and parents becomes more strained. Many within-family studies find few or no birth order effects. Very little research on more than 2 siblings. Experts used to believe that only children would have problems developing normally. Research shows few significant developmental differences b/w singletons and children w/ siblings. Typically used to study genetic variations and environmental. Individuals acquire novel behaviors, including cognitive behaviors such as attitudes and beliefs. Siblings are more likely to model each other when they are:
