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Chapter 1: Building Blocks of Relationships Flashcards

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What are the 7 components of Intimacy

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knowledge, interdependence, caring, trust, responsiveness, mutuality, commitment

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Knowledge

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intimate partners have extensive personal, often confidential, information about each other

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Interdependence

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intimate partners have strong diverse and enduring influence on each other

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Caring

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intimate partners feel more affection for one another than they do for most others

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Trust

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intimate partners expects treatment from one another that is fair and honorable

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Responsiveness

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intimate partners are more attentive to each others needs, and they support each other more effectively than they do most others

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Mutuality

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intimate partners think of themselves as a couple instead of two entirely separate individuals

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Commitment

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intimate partners expect their relationship to continue and they work to realize that goal

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The Need to Belong

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a powerful drive to establish intimate connections to others; people suffer both mentally and physically when they lack intimacy; tendency to form stable, affectionate connections to others may have been evolutionarily adaptive

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Impact of Loneliness

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accelerate buildup of plaque in arteries; promotes inflammation of the brain; can contribute to alzheimers disease; can accelerate cancer growth; poor social relationships are associated with a 29% increase in risk of coronary heart disease

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The Influence of Culture

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times have changed since our grandparents married; fewere people are marrying; people are waiting longer to marry; people routinely live together even when they are not married; people often have babies when they are not married; about 1/2 marriages end in divorce; most children have mothers who work outside the home; sex ratio

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Why have our cultural norms changed?

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increasing socioeconomic development (people have more choices in affulent cultures); increasing individualism; new technology (being able to control fertility);

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Technoference

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frequent interruptions of their interactions that are caused by their technological devices

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Phubbing

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which occurs when one partner snubs another by focusing on a phone; is obnoxious; no one likes to be ignored while you text or talk with someone else

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Sex Ratio

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sex ratio is lower (fewer men)

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Cultures with high sex ratios…

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few women; tend to support traditional roles and to be sexually conservative

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Cultures with low sex ratios….

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few men; tend to be less traditional and more permissive

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The Influence of Experience

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attachment styles; anxiety about abandonment; avoidance of intimacy

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Attachment Styles

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infants interactions with their caregivers shape this; their learned orientations toward relationships with others

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What are the 3 attachment styles?

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secure, anxious-ambivalent, and avoidant

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Secure

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trusting and relaxed

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Anxious-Ambivalent

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nervous and clingy

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Avoidant

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suspicious and withdrawn

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Anxiety about Abandonment

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the worry that others will find us unworthy and leave us

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Avoidance of Intimacy

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affects the ease and trust with which we accept interdependent intimacy with others

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What are the 4 categories of adult attachment?

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secure, preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful

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Secure (adult)

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comfortable with intimacy and interdependence; optimistic and sociable

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Preoccupied

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uneasy and vigilant toward any threat to the relationship; needy and jealous

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Dismissing

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self-reliant and uninterested in intimacy; indifferent and independent

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Fearful

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fearful of rejection and mistrustful of others; suspicious and shy

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Attachment Styles are…

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learned through our experiences in close relationships

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The Influence of Individual Differences

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we are all individuals with our own combinations of experiences and traits; sex differences, gender differences, personality, self esteem

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Sex differences

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stereotypes suggests large differences; actual interests, styles, and abilities of men and women overlab substantially; some sex differences are quite small; misguided to say men and women are very different

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Gender Differences

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gender refers to social and psychological distinctions created by our cultures and upbringing; gender roles: men are expected to masculine and women feminine but only about half of us have attributes that fit these expectations well

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Masculine traits are…

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instrumental traits

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Feminine traits are…

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expressive traits

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Androgynous

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many of us are both instrumental and expressive; being both assertive and warm and sensitive and self-reliant

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The Big Five Personality Traits

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agreeableness- cooperative and trusting; extraversion- outgoing and sociable; conscientiousness- dutiful and dependable; neuroticism- anxious and angry; openness to experience- imaginative and unconventional

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Sociometer Theory

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self-esteem guage that measures the quality of our relationships with others; when others like us, we like ourselves

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When people have low self-esteem…

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underestimate their partners love for them; less optimistic that their loves will last; perceive disregard where none exists; respond less constructively to conflicts

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The Influence of Human Nature

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evolution has instilled in us certain tendencies that shape our relationships; some characteristics/traits may have helped our ancestors so they have become more common place;

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What are the three assumptions of evolutionary psychology?

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sexual selection has sculpted our species; men and women differ only to the extent that they have faced different reproductive dilemmas; cultures determine whether certain behaviors are adpative and cultural changes occur faster than human nature does

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What are different reproductive delimmas that men and women face?

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parental investment, paternity uncertainty, short term vs. long term lovers

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Parental Investment

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men and women differ enormously in the minimum time and biological effort they have to provide to each child they produce; so it is adaptive for women to be more careful inchooseing their mates

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Paternity Uncertainty

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men, but not women, may face doubts about whether or not a particular child is theirs; so men are especially vigilant toward the threat of marital infidelity

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Short Term vs. Long Term Lovers

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what we like in casual, short term lovers may differ from what we seek in committed, long term mates; ex) women may prefer sexy, charismatic, and dominant men for short term liaisons, they may not consider such men to make very good husbands, particularly if they are poor

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The Influence of Interaction

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relationships emerge from the combination of the partners experience ad talents and are often much more than the sum of those parts; two people may create a relationship that only faintly resembles the relationships they share with other people

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Relationships are….

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fluid, dynamic processes rather than static, changeless things

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What is the dark side of intimacy?

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intimacy is sometimes costly; distres and displeasure sometimes result from our dealings with others

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