Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Problem Solving, Cyberbullying, Gender Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

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Levels of affiliation: peer relations might be especially powerful realm social influence, certain points= peers more important to children and more influential anyone else (parents dif influence) Friends: ongoing, positive reciprocal relationships w chosen companion. Toddlers= purposefully choose, more prosocial bahavs but more hostility friends and enemies: school-age= more sophisticated notions friendship reciprocity, more elaborate inferences. Enemies: mutual antipathies- intensely dislike each other, bullies and victim/ both aggressive and dominant. Inimical relationships- equally hostile and aggressive toward each other and consider both enemy. Increase get older= stressful, neg developmental outcomes social adjustment, depression and acting out/ misbehaving: boys= physical, girls= relational. Social groups: mental mechanisms maintain social structure appear to be largely implicit= unaware position in hierarchy. Individual difs but also general patterns development peer interactions, relationships and social groups apply virtually all. Television: vary function content and age, experimental= causal effects, cant extrapolate results, naturalistic= real-life influences, correlational ex: tv causes/ aggressive prefer violent shows.