PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Noncustodial Parent, Parenting Styles, Peer Pressure

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Parental and peer relations are innate and reflect the evolutionary history of the species. Parents and peers can influence children"s development by reinforcing, punishing and modeling. Interactions with parents and peers are crucial to cognitive development. Parents and peers nurture development when they provide experiences that are within the child"s zone of proximal development. The amount of support and affection a parent gives to a child. The degree to which a child is supervised and regulated by the parent. Authoritative parenting style is associated with the most positive social and cognitive outcomes. The role of ethnicity/culture, fathers, and the child"s temperament must be considered when examining parenting styles and outcomes. Relationships between siblings can range from close and supportive to distant and hostile (sibling rivalry) Child temperament and parental influence can affect the quality of sibling relationship. Siblings can be a positive influence in development (e. g. , theory of mind, gender- role development)