PS276 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Rejection, Attachment In Adults, Social Cognition
Document Summary
Changes in social cognition permit relationships characterized by empathy, self disclosure, sensitivity. Recognition of adolescents as near adults may prompt parents to confide in/turn to them for support. Emphasizes social aspects of growth and satisfying changing interpersonal needs. Middle childhood: accepted into peer groups and same sex friendships where intimacy first develops. Psychosocial developnent is cumulative, experiences affect later relationships. Main challenging transitioning from intimate same sex friendships to intimate sexual ones. Establishing intimate relations w opposite sex is chief developmental task in middle/late adolescence. Romantic relationships are context in which intimacy is expressed but not learned and quality of friendships is predictive of romantic relations (not other way around) Inittial attachments form basis for general model of interpersonal relationships employed through life. Secure attachment as infants = positive working model during adolescence. Insecurely attached infants have higher rejection sensitivity and show different pattern of brain activity.
