PSY-PC 2550 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peer Group, Preadolescence, Puberty
12 Dec 2018
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Age grouping in contemporary education and changes in the size and diversity of the adolescent population. Age grading: process of grouping individuals within social institutions (ie school) based on their age. Changes - increase bc baby boom, age segregation over time bc of feeling that peer groups are more important because adults can no longer prepare us for future. Changes in diversity - open to being diverse/having diverse friends. Describe the nature of the adolescent peer groups: changes in groups, differentiate between cliques and crowd, and changes in cliques and crowds over time. Males and females, larger groups than preadolescence. Attractive groups start earlier, associated with drugs. Girls more likely to be in a clique - membership based on reputation and stereotype. Crowds are large, loosely organized groups of young people, composed of several cliques and typically organized around a common shared activities. Cliques- smaller and based on friendship and time spent together with similar beliefs.
