PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anna Freud, Lev Vygotsky, Sociometric Status
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Adolescents report that friends are more important confidants and providers of support than are parents. In elementary school, children who have antisocial and aggressive friends tend to exhibit aggressive tendencies themselves. Attractiveness, athletic ability, social behavior, personality, cognitions about self and others, goals when interacting with peers. Peer status is also influenced by the status of the child"s friends: common sociometric categories. Popular: children who receive many positive nominations and few negative nominations: a category of sociometric status that refers to children or adolescents who are viewed positively by many peers and are viewed negatively by few peers. Neglected: children who are low in social impact (i. e. , they receive few positive or negative nominations). These children are not especially liked or disliked by peers; they simply go unnoticed. Average: children are designated as average if they receive an average number of both positive and negative nominations. Controversial children who receive many positive and many negative nominations.
