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Chapter 1: Why Love Matters Flashcards

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Einstein’s demands on his first wife

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  1. do not expect intimacy
  2. stop talking to me if I request it.
  3. Leave me alone to study without protest if I request it.
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What is the strongest contributor in one’s life.

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your Intimate relationship.

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_____ levels of happiness are especially likely to be found among people in happy relationships.

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Higher

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TRUE OR FALSE: People in intimate relationships are generally more sad than people who are not in intimate relationships.

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False. people in intimate relationships are generally HAPPIER.

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Greater susceptibility to the common cold, poorer wound healing, higher mortality rates, increased hypertension, and increased risk of being diagnosed with and dying from cancer all associate with what?

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Discordant couples

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What activity makes people the happiest?

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Sex

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Are people having more or less sex than before?

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People are having LESS sex than before.

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what is the happiness-maximizing number of sexual partners calculated?

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1

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Those who remain _____ accumulate more wealth compared to ______.

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married, divorced

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which gender’s household income drops 58% following divorce?

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Women

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what is selective well-being?

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A person’s experience of how happy (s)he is generally in life.

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what is Relationship status?

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Independent of relationship quality. The type of relationship a person is currently experiencing. (eg. dating, married, divorces, widowed.)

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what is relationship quality?

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how good or bad an individual judges his or her relationship to be.

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what is Relationships transition?

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A change of one relationship status to another. (Ex. married couple separates or divorce).

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What is the selection Effects?

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A bias that can arise in research because preexisting characteristics of people lead them to choose, or “select themselves” into certain experiences.

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What is protection Effects?

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An association between two phenomena whereby one causes improvement or benefits in the other.

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Social Control Theory

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The view that social relationships regulate how individuals behave by encouraging people to conform to social norms.

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What are pairbonds?

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A connection between two people who have some degree of emotional/ practical investment in each other. Often with the purpose of reproducing.

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what are pair-bonds also known as?

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Dyadic bonds

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Natural selection

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The process by which organism that are best adapted to their environment survive and produce more offsprings.

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What happens to kids exposed to frequent and intense parental conflict?

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They develop poorer relationships with parents and peers, which can lead to compulsive internet use.

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Reduced quality of sleep, , speeding up the onset of puberty, and more physical health problems are biological processes in children that are affected by what?

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High parental conflict.

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Classmates of children exposed to ______ _______ have lower reading and math scores, reducing future earnings by up to 4% 20 years later.

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Domestic violence

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Parental relationship satisfaction is related to 3 things.

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  1. more emotional security
  2. fewer emotional problems
  3. Fewer behavioural problems.
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What is the biggest stakeholder in a relationship?

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Children.

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what is an Intimate Relationship?

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A close relationship that includes some kind of sexual passion that could be expressed and shared.

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What is a close relationship?

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A personal relationship in which the partners have strong and frequent influence on each other across a variety of activities.

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Personal Relationship

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An interdependent relationship in which the partners consider each other special and unique.

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What is an Interdependent relationship?

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A relationship in which the behaviour of each participant affect the other

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What is the defining characteristic of any social relationship.

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Interdependence.

HECOL210- INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS (2 decks)

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