PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sociometric Status, Peer Pressure, Peer Group

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Robert Ley

Document Summary

Psyc 355 chapter 9 peers, romantic relationships, and lifestyles. Peers: individuals who are about the same age / maturity level. To many a, how they are seen by peers is the most important aspect of their lives. Most important funcion of peer group: provide a source of info about the world outside the family: peer contexts. Include the type of peer that a interacts with, the situaion / locaion where they are, culture. Contexts inluenced by how parents manage a"s peer interacions. Study: when parents failed to monitor young a adequately, a were more suscepible to peer pressure. Include personality traits (e. g. shy / outgoing), openness to peer inluence, status / power of a. Study: trait of negaive emoionality (involves a low threshold for experiencing anger, fear, anxiety, and irritaion) impairs peer relaions: developmental changes in ime spent with peers. A spend an increasing amount of ime in peer interacion during middle and late childhood and adolescence.