Exam 5: Peer Groups

What is the most effective way to respond to a bully?

A group of individuals who are born during a particular time period (e.g., the baby boomers) is known as what?

According to some commentators, teenagers have become separate from adult society to such an extent that they have established their own society, which undermines parents' authority and emphasizes peer deviance. This society is called:

Self-esteem is _____ among students who are identified with peer groups that have relatively high status in their school.

Which adolescent is most likely to be rejected as a result of aggressive behavior?

One study of more than 160,000 adolescent from 35 countries found that:

Research on the structure of cliques during high school has suggested that adolescents can fall into any of the following categories, except:

In contrast to crowds, cliques:

Adolescent peer groups fall along two dimensions:

By the end of high school, crowds:

Discuss the significance of the book The Adolescent Society in shaping our ideas about peer relations during adolescence, and contrast James Coleman's views with researchers who have argued that peer groups play a vital role in preparing adolescents for adulthood in modern society.

Judy and Jessica hang around people their same age. These people are most accurately described as:

By middle to late adolescence, cliques are often segregated by race. All of the following are possible explanations for this phenomenon, except:

All of the following changes typically occur during adolescence, except:

The process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of chronological age is called:

Pepler, Jiang, Craig, and Connolly (2008) studied a sample of 10- to 17-year-old Toronto youths and found that:

Eric, a fourth-grader, spends a lot of time with his peers and is more likely to engage in which of the following activities?

Principal McGonagall has been watching his students for several years as they move through adolescence. Which groups are most likely to exhibit favorable patterns of achievement over time?

The main reason that reactive aggression is associated with unpopularity and greater problems with peers is that reactive aggression is characterized by:

Why is there an ethnic separation in adolescents' peer groups? Discuss ways in which society can break this cycle of separation.