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anti social

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acting in a way that is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to people not of same household

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labelling

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broad terms are used to describe a group of people. Happens when a group see another as inferior which creates majority and minority groups

  • have negative connotations and derive from stereotypes
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self-fulfilling prophecy

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false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour, which makes originally false conception come true.
we then internalise labels associated with us

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social learning theory

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acquiring behaviour by observing and imitating others

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evaluation

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  • SE from Jahoda 1954
  • SE from Madon et al 2004
  • ethical issues so can’t be tested/ proven
  • cannot accept a causal link as other variables may influence behaviour
  • CE from meta analysis on SLT and aggression = 0.19 which is a weak correlation coefficient so results not significant and there are other influences
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individual differences

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  • SFP, some do not live up to expectations as they usually have high self-esteem, greater autonomy and less regard for opinion
  • social explanations can explain development
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Jahoda

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1954
- Ashanti people from Ghana name boys depending on the day they were born
mondays = quiet boys
wednesday = aggressive and short tempered
- looking at 5 year records
22% violent offences committed by wednesday boys
6.9% monday
- suggests that cultural expectations and labels led to different treatment and they conformed to labels

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madon et al

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2004

  • whether parents expectations about childs alcohol use had any self-fulfilling effect on childrens future drinking behaviour
  • found a positive correlation between parents who overestimated childs alcohol use and actual alcohol use a year later. If both parents expected child was more likely
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