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Women’s sex drive

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More adaptable sex drives. Otherwise similar to men’s.

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What are the 3 types of sexual attitudes?

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  1. Procreation
  2. Relational
  3. Recreational
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Procreation

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Primary reason is to have children.

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Relational

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To express love and affection

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Recreational

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Primary reason is to have fun.

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What are the influences on sexual behaviors?

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Culture, media, peers, family, previous relationships.

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Serial Monogamy

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Sexually active with one partner.

Generally more adjusted than promiscuous adventurers or virgins

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Changes to sexual behaviors in the 60s

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Birth control pill

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Indirect, Timid, and ambiguous behaviors

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Gives deniability and protection from rejection.

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Scheflen’s Five Stages of Courtship

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  1. Attention
  2. Courtship readiness stage
  3. Positioning
  4. Invitations
  5. Resolution
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Courtship readiness stage

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Recognition of partner

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Positioning

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Commitment to one another.

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Invitations

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More physically intimate. (Should take more time)

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Resolution

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Accept invitations and engage in sex.

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3 positive Initiation strategies

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  1. Hinting/indirect strategies
  2. Expressions of Emotional and Physical Closeness
  3. Logic and Reasoning
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Quasi-courtship

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Stages 1-4 of scheflen’s model

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2 negative initiation strategies

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  1. Pressure and manipulation

2. Antisocial acts

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Refusal

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Women tend to be more upset when refused for sex.

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Token resistance

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Unclear, confusing, dangerous.

Communication about sex should be clear.

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Safe sex

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Abstinence is the safest sex. Unsafe sex occurs more frequently in close relationships.

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Dynamic process that involves continually adjusting to new needs and demands.

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Relational maintenance

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Pro social Behaviors

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  1. Positivity
  2. Openness
  3. Assurance
  4. Social Networking
  5. Task sharing
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Antisocial behaviors

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  1. Avoidance

2. Jealousy induction

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Sex differences in relational maintenance

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Women talk more together, men do more together.

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3 challenges in maintenance behaviors in cross-sex friendships
1. Emotional bond 2. Potential sexual attraction 3. Public presentation challenge
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What are long distance relationships doing?
Increasing in number.
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When couples are together they each are on their best behavior, when a part they focus on positive aspects. (Issues can arise when proximity becomes closer.)
Idealization
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Cohabiting is successful when there are long-term plans to get married.
Selection effect
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Distribution of resources is fair for both relational partners
Equity theory
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Focuses on balance between benefits and contributions in a specific area.
Specific equity
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An overall assessment of balance between two people’s benefits and contributions.
General equity
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An expressed struggle between interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals.
Conflict
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Parents who have dysfunctional conflict skills will probably have dysfunctional parenting skills.
Spillover effect
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Children pick up and mimic their parents conflict styles.
Socialization effect
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Win/lose. Direct and uncooperative, generally ineffective.
Competitive
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Direct and moderately cooperative. Part win/part lose
Compromise
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Win/win. Cooperative and direct. Most effective.
Collaborating
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Indirect and uncooperative. Passive aggressive. Lose/lose
Indirect fighting
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Indirect and neutral. Lose/lose.
Avoiding
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Cooperative and indirect. Lose/win
Yielding
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Aggression equals aggression.
Negative reciprocity
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Storing up pat grievances and releasing them during an argument.
Gunnysacking
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Bringing up old arguments during a current one.
Kitchen sinking
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Insulting or talking about a 3rd party in relation to the argument
Bringing in a 3rd party
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Assuming you know your partners thoughts and feelings
Mind reading
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Four horsemen of the apocalypse
1. Complaints vs. criticisms 2. Accepting responsibility vs. defensiveness 3. Respect vs. contempt 4. Physiological self-soothing vs. stonewalling
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Assigning reason to someone else’s behavior.
Attribution
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Focuses on logic and reasoning
Argumentative ness
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Attacks the other person.
Aggressiveness
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An individual’s ability to control or influence another
Power
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People have to recognize your power.
Perception
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Exists in relationships, you power compared to your partner’s.
Relational
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Struggle over resources
Resource based
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The person with less to lose holds greater power.
Less to lose
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What does appearance and clothing do?
Triggers judgement about power.
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Parent/child
Parent needs power, but it should be inversely related to the child’s age.
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Individuation and seperation
Teenage years. Teens become individuals and separate themselves from their parents.
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Obey without question.
Authoritarian parents
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Children can do whatever they want.
Permissive parents
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Middle ground between permissive and authoritarian. Children respect boundaries but still have freedoms.
Authoritative
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Power is associated with height and vertical position
Principle of elevation
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Based on male dominance and clearly specified roles.
Traditional marriages
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Both partners raise the children and share household responsibilities.
Egalitarian marriages
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Dominant and controlling messages.
One-up messages
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Deferent or accepting messages
One-down messages
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Neutral messages
One-across messages

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