PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peer Group, Parenting Styles, Social Change

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Peers: peer group = approximately the same age and social status, share common interests, children roughly same age and sex. Inwardly many distinctions: as children mature and develop new interests, their peer groups change, peer group = microsystem. Influence all of the following: social development, cognitive development, psychological development. The sense of belonging develops first within the family= attachment. Social interactions are impacted by the willingness of adults to provide opportunities. Social interactions impacted by parenting styles: authoritative: Socio-behavioural competence, confidence: permissive & authoritarian: less competence in social interactions, middle childhood. Opportunities for social interactions increase and are less dependent on parents: but family involvement seems to strengthen peer relationships. Children become more and more dependent on the approval of peers: adolescence. Satisfy belonging needs and organize social interactions according to the closeness of the relationship. Will share feelings with 1-2 best friends . Larger, more loosely organized associative group would be the.