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Senior Library Books
Social Psychology by Call Number: 302 SMIISBN: 9781848728943Publication Date: 2014-12-04Using an engaging narrative, this textbook demonstrates how social processes are inherently interconnected by uniquely applying underlying and unifying principles throughout the text. With its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary research--illustrated with real-world examples from many disciplines, including medicine, law, and education--Social Psychology 4th Edition connects theory and application, providing undergraduate students with a deeper and more holistic understanding of the factors that influence social behaviors.
Psychology and the Challenges of Life by Call Number: 155. 24 NEVISBN: 9780470592311Publication Date: 2010-01-07A long-respected standard in the psychology of adjustment, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, Eleventh Edition has been thoroughly updated and contemporized to provide students the ability to reflect on how psychology relates to the lives we live and the roles that psychology can play in helping us with the challenges we face. Authors Jeffrey Nevid and Spencer Rathus explore the many applications of psychological concepts and principles used to meet the challenges of daily life, while encouraging students to apply concepts to themselves through active learning exercises, self-assessment questionnaires, and journaling exercises.
Introduction
Welcome to the research guide for Relational Influences. Relationships with peers provide a context for acquiring new social skills and for experimenting with values and social roles in the absence of parental monitoring. Forming positive cliques can create a sense of connectedness and well being. Deviant peer cliques can generate aggressive and delinquent behaviours. (Encyclopedia.com, 2017) This guide explores the influence of relationships for the task of writing a formal essay on its theories and concepts.
Social Thinking
Nature and Nurture of Relationships
- Narvaez, D. (2014, December 14). Kindness in Kids and The Nature-Nurture Debate. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201412/kindness-in-kids-and-the-nature-nurture-debateWhy is it that Charlie was able to consider what Lucy wanted and shared, but Lucy thought only of herself? Was it because of the way the two were raised? Alternatively, was there some kind of genetic factor that made Charlie inherently generous and Lucy naturally greedy? As it turns out, the development of prosocial behavior is a matter of both nature and nurture; genes and parenting (Saturn 2014).
Online Relationships - Study
- Australian Psychological Society. (2010). The social and psychological impact of online social networking. Retrieved from https://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/2010/december/socialIncreasingly, studies are indicating that social networking has a positive impact on social connectedness and wellbeing (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009; Ofcom, 2008). However, negatives are evident (Cross et al., 2009), with much media attention focused on the ‘dangers’ of online social networking such as bullying and inappropriate use of personal information.
Key Terms
- adolescence Adolescence, these years from puberty to adulthood, may be roughly divided into three stages: early adolescence, generally ages eleven to fourteen; middle adolescence, ages fifteen to seventeen; and late adolescence, ages eighteen to twenty-one. In addition to physiological growth, seven key intellectual, psychological and social developmental tasks are squeezed into these years. The fundamental purpose of these tasks is to form one’s own identity and to prepare for adulthood.
- cliques small groups who interact frequently
- crowds larger groups of adolescents (or others) with similar identities or affiliations.
- Dexter Dunphy A sociologist in the 1960s who engaged in the participant observation where he observed the social activities of adolescents to determine rules governing their social activity.
- dyad pairs of close friends or lovers
- stage 1 the stage in which adolescents form cliques of four two ten people, typically of the same sex
- stage 2 the stage in which unisex cliques interact to form crowds
- stage 3 the stage in which crowd structures change and higher-ranking clique members form heterosexual cliques
- stage 4 the stage in which a fully developed crowd is formed by a number of close couples
- stage 5 the stage in which couples begin to separate
Kitty Genovese
Kitty Genovese
- Bystander effect. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch. wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/bystander-effect/627527#334618.tocGenovese, returning home late from work, was viciously attacked and sexually assaulted by a man with a knife while walking home to her apartment complex from a nearby parking lot. As reported in the The New York Times, for over half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding people heard or saw the man attack her three separate times. None of the witnesses called the police during the attack, and only one bystander contacted authorities after Kitty Genovese died.
Peer Cliques
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (2008). Cliques. Retrieved from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/peer-cliquesFriendships can foster important psychological and social growth. During late childhood and early adolescence, friends start to gather in a loose-knit collection of members called a peer group. Within these larger peer groups are smaller, tightly organized peer cliques. Peer cliques consist of a small group of close friends, about three to ten, whose members typically resemble one another in family background, attitudes, and values (Ennett, Bauman, and Kock 1996).