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Psychology 1230: Psychology of Adolescence

Don HartmannSummer 2004Lecture 11: © (Social) Information Processing

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Quiz 1 Information

80% of the multiple choice items will come from the study guides. The MC portion of the quiz will contain 30-40 items from the following sources: 3-5 questions from each chapter, 1-2 items from each lecture, and 0-1 questions from each handout.

The essay portion will include 3-5 relatively brief essay questions taken from the study guides. You will have some choice over which questions you can choose to answer

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Discussion Topic #9

II: #1. IQ Myths: Whippets II: (Summary-Evaluation due on Monday, October 3rd ):

Our culture has a substantial number of myths regarding IQ testing and the nature of what IQ tests measure. What are some of these myths? Do the myths have any truth to them? Are there any issues we should be particularly sensitive to if we were teaching a high school course in psychology while discussing IQ (Feel free to use your own experiences)? Also feel free to comment on other discussants’ comments.

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Discussion Topic #10

II: #2. Modifying Self-Esteem: 4♀+1♂ II (Summary-Evaluation due on Tuesday, October 4th ): Both the text and the lecture discuss methods of modifying self-esteem. We have all had personal experiences in which our self-esteem was either substantially raised or lowered. Describe one of those experiences, and how it fits in, if at all, with the material on self-esteem in our text. Also feel free to comment on other discussants contributions.

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Discussion Topic #11

#11. Best Things Teens do: Hotties II (Summary-Evaluation due on Wednesday, October 5th): The Friels have written about the best and worst things teens do. The list of Best things include the following: Become competent; master your feelings; break the silence: It takes so much energy to silently scream; get healthy power; face the serious stuff; find an identity; and start learning to stake out the extremes. How might you as a parent (or a teacher) facilitate these “Best things?” Comment on at least one of these “Best Things” in your response, and feel free to critically comment on the comments of others.

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WEB Discussion Process

Group #1 due #2 due #3 due #4 due #5 dueWhippets 09/12 (09/19) 10/03Hotties 09/13 (No takers) 10/054♀+1♂ 09/19 (09/19) 10/04GypsyMafia 09/20JusticeLeague 09/21Psyched 09/22PithHelmets 09/23MAJACS 09/26

----------Note: Anyone can contribute to any WEB discussion; group members are responsible to

summarizing the discussion. The last day to contribute to any discussion is 3 days before the due date. Dates in parenthesis indicate the date handed in.

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Handout Summary Handout WEB

Date Date 14. HO-Completing a Film Review* 08/14 15. HO-Preparing a Book Review 08/14 16. Completed Class Locator 08/31 17. Lect. #4: Introduction to Theory 09/02 18. Lect. #5: Bandura 09/02 19. Supplemental Lecture: Termpaper 09/06 20. Lect. #6: Method I 09/07 21. Lect. #7: Method II 09/09 22. Lect. #8: Puberty 09/13 23. Lect. #9: Piaget 09/16-----*Indicates handouts discussed in class.

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Overview:

Goals: To acquaint you with some of the notions of the information processing model and how they might change with development, and to show how such models may be applied to social phenomena

Overlap with text, pp. 134-144 & pp. 357-358 Outline

Introduction to Information Processing model Illustration: Dodge’s SIP applied to aggression

Next: Lecture 10: Social Cognition

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Lecture Resources

Crick, N. R., & Dodge, K. A. (1994). A review and reformulation of social information processing mechanisms in children’s social adjustment. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 74-101.

Dodge, K. A. (1986). A social information processing model of social competence in children. In M. Perlmutter (Ed.), Minnesota symposia on child psychology (vol. 18). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Introduction

Text discusses basic information processing model—speed of processing; attention; short-term, working, and long-term memory; etc.

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Information Processing: An introduction (1)

Adolescents have more cognitive resources available to them because of automaticity, increased information processing capacity, and greater familiarity with a range of content

knowledge. Short-term, working-, and long-term memory

are all part of the information processing armamentarium. Each improves with age, perhaps into young adulthood

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Information Processing: An introduction (2)

Decision making improves with age, at least into adulthood.

Critical thinking improves with age—perhaps substantially into adulthood

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Introduction (2)

We will explore how that general information processing model has been applied to social phenomena—specifically aggression.

Dodge’s Social Information Processing (SIP) model

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Basic Processes in Dodge’s SIP Model

Encoding Cues Interpret Cues Formulation of Goals Generate Responses Evaluate Responses Enact a Response

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The Dodge Model Diagrammatically

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Reactive Aggressors

Have history of bickering with peers. Have hostile attribution bias. More likely to become angry.

Short circuit search.

Respond aggressively.

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Aggression Comes in Many Forms

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Focus on Interpretation (attributions)

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Strengths & Weakness of Dodge’s SIP Model

Strengths: Useful in predicting aggressive responding Highlights variables that are important in

changing behavior Dynamic

Weaknesso Not developmentalo Does not explicitly deal with emotions

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Summary of Social Cognition Lecture

Information Processing Model Social Information Processing

Model of Dodge Next: Lecture #10: Social

Cognition Go in Peace