Ch. 11: Relationships in Young & Middle Adulthood Flashcards
Assortative Mating
Theory that people find partners based on their similarity to each other
Marital Success
Umbrella term referring to any marital outcome
Marital Quality
subjective evaluation of the couple’s relationship on a number of different dimensions
Marital adjustment
degree to which spouses accommodate to each other over a certain period of time
Marital Satisfaction
Global assessment of one’s marriage
homogamy
similarity of values and interests
exchange theory
relationship, such as marriage, based on each partner contributing something to the relationships that the other would be hard-pressed to provide
Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model
Proposes that marital quality is a dynamic process resulting from the couple’s ability to handle stressful events in the context of their particular vulnerabilities and resources
Covenant Marriage
Expands the marriage contract to a lifelong commitment between the partners within a supportive community (usually religiously bound and makes divorce harder)
Collaborative Divorce
voluntary, contractually based alternative dispute resolution process for couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than have a ruling imposed on them by a court or an arbitrator
5 Stages of Adulthood Friendship (ABCDE)
Acquaintanceship-Buildup-Continuation-Deterioration-Ending
Social Baseline Theory (Coan et. al)
the human brain expects access to social relationships that mitigate risks and diminish effort needed to meet a variety of goals by incorporating relational partners into neural representations of the self (basically you include your support system in your calculus of what you can do)
Mnemonic for Erikson’s 8 Stages
1 Tim Makes 2 Apple Sherries Divine. 3 Individuals Gain 4 Insipid Iterations. 5 Icelanders Ruin 6 Individual Items. 7 Greenlanders Eat 8 Entire Desserts
