PSY-PC 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peer Group

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 2550
• Professor: Wadsworth Leigh

Document Summary

Minute topics not big things: family systems theory. Relationships change when individuals or circumstances change within: particularly during adolescence and midlife. Parents might be upset when kids meet the peak and the adults are seeing their decline. Problems financing clothes and toys and supplies for kids but also financing parents. Peer group importance: increased importance of friends: parenting styles and effects. High control, high warmth: authoritative: good grades, independence, responsible, self-reliant, curious, high self-esteem, mature. High control, low warmth: authoritarian: low self-esteem, less curious, more dependent on others, lack social competence, more likely to rebel, lots of secrecy. Low control, high warmth: indulgent: no boundaries, (cid:862)spoiled(cid:863), (cid:374)ot respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility, i(cid:373)(cid:373)ature, diffi(cid:272)ulty (cid:449)ith authority and taking instruction in schools. Low control, low warmth: indifferent: negative, low self-esteem, engage in delinquent behavior, low academic success, impulsive, sometimes too mature, relationships with siblings. Rate si(cid:271)li(cid:374)gs as peers (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)"t treat the(cid:373) as (cid:374)i(cid:272)e as peers.