Peer-to-peer

Peer pressure is substantially concentrated in teen and young adult years due to a coercion of teenagers’ minds to fit in as opposed to not associating oneself as an outsider. This theme is frequently portrayed in the visual text ‘Easy A’ produced in 2010, written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck. This theme is communicated through the characterization and dialogue of the main characters, especially Olive Penderghast. She is an enigma who presents a true representation and portrayal…

I never really had a good experience with peer-review back in high-school. It was mostly used as a time to mess around with classmates and do other stuff besides working on our papers. Needless to say, I wasn’t really looking forward to it. Once we actually got around to peer-reviewing I found it surprisingly helpful. I was able to get a lot of useful information from my partners on how I should improve my…

friends rather than family. During this stage of life peer pressure can be a challenge in most individuals. Although, many think of peer pressure as a negative aspect of life, it can have many positive effects like positive peer association; as well as empathy and social initiative. There are two types of peer pressure, one being direct and the other being indirect peer association. They both play a huge part when it comes to positive peer pressure. In order to identify how these play a…

Using “Mentoring Programs: A Framework to Inform Program Development, Research, and Evaluation” (2006) I realized that the term “peer mentoring” has been used to describe a variety of different things, such as cross-age peer mentoring, peer tutoring, and peer education to name a few (Karcher et al., 2006, p. 712). Dictionary.com defines the word peer as: “a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status.” It also defines the word mentor as:…

The peer-review was helpful to me, although my essays were not perfect, this help me to correct my errors. It was difficult to do the essays to me, but I was doing the most that I can. I gave all my effort to do the essays. Peer-review helped me to do the MLA format, how to summarize paragraphs, and used rhetorical appeals. In narrative essay was the most difficult to me. When the professor told me that I needed to do my essay in MLA format I get lost. I never heard that. I do the entire essay…

participate in group supervision. The goal is for everyone to learn something from their peers. Group supervision is informative and helpful to those training. They can go over the quality of that practice and elaborate on the practice of other team members. During group supervision different forms of training therapy can be observed. For example, cognitive therapy helps with dysfunction and intervention. Peer group supervision consist member communicating and gaining knowledge from one…

parents to their peers. During this time, people begin to form relationships outside of their family circles. These relationships heavily influence a person’s mental growth. According to the authors of How Peers Make a Difference: The Role of Peer Groups and Peer Relationships in Personality Development, (2014) “Adolescents spend an increasing amount of time with peers groups, and they become highly, and more than people of other ages, concerned with obtaining social acceptance in peer groups.”…

seemed like I was the only one who hadn 't joined yet. The amount of peer pressured I endured to simply sign up was already unbearable and I knew that it wasn 't going to get any better from the stories I had heard. Sure I wanted to get involved and meet tons of new people, but I also didn 't want ot have to deal with the other pressures that are involved with greek life itself. Although I overcame this specific aspect of peer pressure, I realized that it 's a bigger problem in many other areas…

The Effect of Peer Pressure on Adolescents According to Esen (2012) teens grow up and start to make their own decisions, for example choosing their own friends. Entering into middle school teens have the mind set of being a part of a group of friends that have the same interests as each other (Esen, 2012). Teens want to be a part of a group even if that means changing the way they dress or hair style to look like others in the group. Middle school teens care more about what the friends think…

Introduction In the article ‘Life is a tightrope’: reflections on peer group inclusion and exclusion amongst adolescent girls and boys, the authors seek to address the issue of peer group inclusion and exclusion by investigating the components of exclusion in relation to gender, the consequences of non-conformity, and strategies that girls and boys adopt in order to achieve group acceptance. The authors examined this through data, which was collected from interviews with adolescents at four…