Peer influence: pressure, either planned or unplanned, exerted by peers to influence personal behavior.
Culture: the customs, traditions, mores, values, institutions, and art of a certain society or group.
Variations over time: the change in individuals' personalities and character traits over time, often studied by developmental psychologists.
The nature and nurture of gender: the role that nature and nurture provide in making genders different. (Example: are we different because biologically we are different, or because our environments contribute to and magnify those differences through setting up different roles and ideas of how different sexes should behave?)
try to explain peer pressure and culture a bit more. Think in terms of psych not just the definition you get online or even the one that is in the back of the book.
ReplyDeleteWell, an example of peer pressure would be a child who doesn't particularly care for a sport. However, all of her friends enjoy that sport, so she naturally tries the sport and maybe even grows to enjoy it, or at least tolerate it (even though she wouldn't have considered it in the first place).
ReplyDeleteAn example of culture would be the art (maybe the style is more like cubism, or maybe the style is more classic) the music (ex. maybe more pop-oriented)the beliefs (maybe Christianity is dominant) and all of the other details that make a society distinct from other groups.