PSY-PC 2550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior, Peer Pressure, Parenting Styles

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

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Be able to give evidence for each theory. Detachment: adolescent severs emotional ties to parents because of repressed sexual urges towards parent of opposite sex, causes turmoil and conflicts. False, most parents get along with kids during adolescent years, bicker more but the closeness of the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sfo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:374)ot (cid:271)(cid:396)eaki(cid:374)g off. Individuation: g(cid:396)adual, p(cid:396)og(cid:396)essi(cid:448)e sha(cid:396)pe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of o(cid:374)e"s se(cid:374)se of self as auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)ous, competent, and sepa(cid:396)ate f(cid:396)o(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts. No turmoil, less childish dependencies and more responsibility, take responsibility for actions, less rebelling and more asking questions. Research: start seeing parents as less ideal, more friends that parents do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449), less (cid:396)elyi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) the(cid:373), more privacy. Kids who detach from parents but feel distant score poorer on psychological adjustment than kids who detach but still feel close to their parents. Important to detach and stay close and not to be alienated. They need to branch off but in a positive way because they start seeing parents as not ideal.