PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Roaring Twenties, Physical Attractiveness, Normative Social Influence
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Friends de nitions: de nition of friends changes across development as well: childhood: friends = play-mates, adolescence: friends tend to be peers, but not all peers are friends; people with whom you develop a valued, mutual relationship. All friends are peers but not all peers are friends, with friends we care about each other, but this is not always true with peers - there is interdependence, intimate knowledge and intimate relationships with friends. Baby boom created an adolescent boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. Adolescents comprised over 10% of u. s. population in 1975. Today, 1 in 7 individuals in the u. s. is an adolescent. Youth culture: some researchers believe that age segregation has led to a separate youth culture that has negative effects on adolescents young people maintain attitudes, values, and styles different from the rest of the society: ex.
