PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peer Pressure, Casual Dating
3 Dec 2017
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Identity is a self-portrait composed of many pieces. Search for identity aided by a psychosocial moratorium. When parents engage in positive parenting practices, adolescents are more likely to disclose information. Higher levels of parental monitoring reduced negative peer influence on adolescent risk-taking. Much involves the everyday events of family life. Often escalates during early adolescence, somewhat stable during high school years, lessens as adolescent reaches age 17-20. Need for intimacy intensifies in early adolescence, motivating teens to seek out close friends. If fail to forge such close relationship, loneliness and reduced sense of self-worth. Peer pressure - conformity to peer standards; peaks around 8th or. Cliques - small groups ranging from 2 to about 12, average 5-6. Usually same sex and about the same age. Entering into romantic attractions and affiliations at about age 11 to 13. Exploring romantic relationships at approximately age 14 to 16. Consolidating dyadic (two people/a couple) romantic bonds about age.
