05:300:306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Cognition, Cooperative Learning, Attribution Bias
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Peer importance (cid:324)heathens(cid:325): promotes distrust (cid:324)all my friends are dead(cid:325): promotes bad thoughts and bad behavior. Influence of the media effects children and their learning. Social development is based on students environment. For many students, social success is more important as children enter into adolescence. Schools reinforce this thought of social success being all students think about. Arena for learning and practicing social skills. Helping with schoolwork (cognitive and physical skills) Directly and indirectly enforce ways of behaving (socialization) Social development: development of increasing understandings of other people and society as a whole. Self socialization: tendency to integrate personal observations and others input into self constructed standards for behavior and to choose actions consistent with those standards. Contrary to socialization ideas from the past (peer pressure) Peer pressure does not take into account own agency. Aid in developing perspective-taking and self esteem. Social group of 3-10 frequently joins together. Larger than cliques; often groups of them.