CH 5 Peers Flashcards
Important things having peers
- usually same age and social status = ez to relate to them
- having frens = better normal development
- teaches new skills, roles, teamwork
- learns about fairness and group systems
- source of joy and distress
- without socialness may lead to mental health issues
Mead Pace of Change: Postconfigurative
-slow change
- elders teach the youngsters
Mead: Pace of Change: Cofigurative
- faster change, elders and youngsters both equally teach one another
Mead: Prefigurative
- even faster
- youngsters teach elders
Peer Influence: Normative Social Influence
- conform to the social norms or rules that are expectedPe
Peer Influence: Informational Social Influeence
info u receive affects ur behaviour
Reference Group and Peers as the Models
- thinking about the norms that are expected of them from peers
- compare their level or standard of performance to peers
- peers are audience on how theyre evaluated and perceived
Social Cognitive Theory
factors prediciting which models r observed n imitated more
Factors of Social Cog Theory
- similarity = u are like me
- status = u are admired like me
- social power = u control resources importan to me (bosses)
Social comparison
- adolescents evaluate events and respond
- someone does smth n u compare ur performance with that standard
- if u meet the standard = prideful
- if u dont = shame
ex. body image, skool achievement, sports
Social Preference
liked ppl minus disliked ppl
Social Impact
liked ppl + disliked ppl
Social Status: Popular (liked)
- life of the hallways
- peers can rely on them
- confident but not conceited
- liked boys hav a better rep cuz its about their abilities
liked girls more on body image
Social Status: Rejected
- serious adjusted problems
- impulsive
- emotionally reactive
- fewer social skills
-disruptive
SOcial Status: Neglected
- low rates of interacions with peers
- can appear shy but doesnt mean they having mental health issues
Social Status: Controversial
- adjustment problems
- might jsut be seen as immature or just want attention
-rage bait kid
Average
- ppl content with them
- like dislike
- good
Strats to teach social skills
- modelling the appropriate skills
- discuss and reasoning
- reinforcement
- counselling them on particular issues
- help them set goals n plan for them
Dodge’s 5 Steps Adolescents Process Info
- decode social cues
-interpret - response search
- select the best response
- do it
PREVNet’s Mandate
EAIP
- Education = build awareness to change attitudes n commmit to address problems
- Assessment = tools to eval extent of bullying/victimization problems
- Intervention= provide guildlines based on research for anti-bully programs
- Policy = policies n guidelines ensuring child’s safety and support rights
