PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Genetic Marker, Cyberbullying, Youth Culture
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Chapter 10 adolescence: psychosocial development pt 3: psychosocial development and the media. Relationships with peers: moee important in adolescence, selection and facilitation. Peers facilitate both destructive and constructive behaviors. Deviancy training leading your friends into trouble. Peers also lead their friends into music, art, biology, studying. Norms differ from crowd to crowd (cavanaugh, 2007: sex ed. Abstinence only vs. teaching about sex prctices. 5 uses of the media: entertainment, identity formation, high sensation, coping, youth culture identificiation, last 4 specific to adolescence than any other age schee. Internet benefits: access to information, potential to enhance eduction, positive social interactions. Internet cautions: sexual predators, academic cheating, promote social isolation (displacement effect) Internet addiction: 1:25 irresistible urge, added to dsm-v as condition recommended for further study (10/2/2012, similar genetic marker (chrna4) as found in individuals at risk for nicotine addiction (8/29/2012, science daily)
