CYC 702 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Active Listening, Externalizing Disorders, Behavior Management
11 Dec 2016
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Peer influence becomes the dominant factor for most teenagers, allows youth to experiment with new roles and interpersonal interactions. Peer cluster: small subset of a peer group that influences the attitudes and beliefs of each. Peer cluster theory suggests that antisocial behavior and school problems are major factors in creating deviant peer clusters; troubled youth tend to find each other and encourage each other"s deviant behaviors. Dynamics of peer clusters explain why prevention and treatment don"t work; youth go back to the same peer group, need to either remove them completely or work with the whole group member (ex. Using the same drugs, drop out, sexual attitudes) Co-operative learning: students working on one task divided up or working on a task as a group, better than a competitive model. Helping and supporting others, increase in academic performance, active learning through communication, team work, improving relations between different subgroups (races, Positive outcomes in motivation, peer support, self attributions and self esteem.
