HD FS 239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Attribution Bias, Shyness, Relational Aggression
3 Sep 2016
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The social map of adolescence: involvement in institutions controlled by adults, involvement in informal peer culture. Adolescents & their cliques: similarity among clique members. Cliques typically are composed of people of: same age, same race/ethnicity, same socioeconomic background, same sex at least during early & middle adolescence. Adolescents and their cliques: common interests among friends. 3 factors are important for determining clique membership: orientation toward school, orientation toward teen culture, involvement in antisocial activity. Deviant peer groups: antisocial, aggressive adolescents gravitate toward each other. Gangs: antisocial peer groups that are identified by name and common symbols: members are at greater risk for: Some teens are popular and aggressive: adolescents who use instrumental aggression (as opposed to reactive aggression) are more popular, sometimes identified as tough , extremely aggressive, physically competent, average or below average in: 3 types of unpopular adolescents: those who have problems controlling aggression ( reactive aggression ) Victims of bullying: aggressive and withdrawn.
