CHAPTER 5 – PEER GROUPS

Flashcards providing vocabulary terms and definitions related to adolescent peer groups, their structures, dynamics, and related social issues.

Peer groups

Groups of individuals of approximately the same age.

Age grading

The process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of age.

Cliques

Small, tightly knit groups of between 2 and 12 friends, generally of the same sex and age.

Reference groups

A group against which an individual compares him or herself; crowds act as reference groups and provide their members with an identity.

Iatrogenic effects

Unintended adverse consequences of a treatment or intervention.

Sociometric popularity

How well-liked an individual is.

Perceived popularity

How much status or prestige an individual has.

Relational aggression

Acts intended to harm another through the manipulation of his or her relationships with others (e.g., malicious gossip).

Hostile attribution bias

The tendency to interpret ambiguous interactions with others as deliberately hostile.

Bullying

Activity differentiated by its repetitive nature and by the imbalance of power between bully and victim.

Cyberbullying

Bullying that occurs over the Internet or via cell phones.