PSYC 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Peer Pressure

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2250
• Professor: Steven Hladkyj

Document Summary

Peer acceptance extent to which a child is viewed by a groups of age mates as a worthy social partner. Clique 4-6 friends who share similar interests and activities. Crowd larger groups with similar attitudes and values: conformity and peer pressure. 2 good things that they get from authoritative conformity authoritative parenting reduces conformity. It does it helps children makes better decision, involves children in reasoning things out so children get practice on figuring things out on themselves. Authoritative in friends tends to have children choose friends and peers that have similar kinds of attitudes and decision making ability. Even if you did have that peer pressure they will select friends that have prosocial attitudes. Parents who are controlling, children choose friends that conform more because they are not use to decision making to themselves. Popular prosocial children liked by their peers. Popular antisocial children popular not because of being friends, peers see them as being cool.