PSYC 355 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-355: Homophily, Harry Stack Sullivan, Sociometric Status
6 Dec 2013
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Peers individuals who are about the same age or maturity level. Aggression toward peers predicts delinquency or drop out of school. Fewer social skills: controversial children frequently nominated both as someone"s best friend and as being disliked. Social cognition thoughts about social matters; how adolescents process information during peer interaction. Interpretation: decoding of social cues, response search, selection of an optimal response, enactment. Conglomerate strategies coaching; involve the use of a combination of techniques, rather than a single approach to improve adolescents" social skills. Friends subset of peers who engage in mutual companionship, support, and intimacy. Intimacy/affection provides adolescents with a warm, close, trusting relationship with another individual, a relationship that involves self-disclosure. Intimacy in friendship defined narrowly as self-disclosure, or sharing of private thoughts. Harry stack sullivan most influential theorist in he studies of adolescent friendship; argued that friends are important in shaping the development of children and adolescents. Intimacy makes the relationship seem close or intense.
