Chapter 15 Flashcards
Closeness involves 6 components
knowledge, caring, interdependence, mutuality, trust, commutment
People in close relationships ___ a lot about each other, ___ about each other, ___ each other. They are ___________ sharing intimate, often confidential information….
know, care, trust
comfortable
Interdependence
Closer people are the more they experience this
What each person does significantly influences what the partner does over long periods of time
Mutuality
Partners’ acknowledgement that their lives are intertwined and that they think of themselves as a couple (“us”) instead of as two separate individuals (“me” and “you”)
Commitment
Partners’ investment of time, effort, and resources in their relationship with the expectation that it will continue indefinitely.
Parasocial relationships
Individuals’ relationship with people in the media
What doe parasocial relationships lack and what do they include
Lack: interdependency
Include: Know media personalities, care about them committed to follow them
Importance of close relationships
Practical benefits: facilitate our day-to-day meeting
People want and need love
When asked the name of the person people felt closest to, the most popular choice was _____
one’s romantic partner
Culture and Love
Culture tells us everything about our idea of love.
Such as arranged marriages or marriages because of love
The basics of attachment: Infancy and child hood
-What are the three forms of attachment
Secure attachment: 60% display this
Anxious-ambivalent: 20% display this
Avoidant attachment: 20% display this
Secure attachment
Mother and child in unfamiliar room. Stranger enters which brings distress the child. Child returns to play mother leaves. Child distressed and doesn’t calm down till mother returns
Anxious-ambivalent
Clingy. When mother leaves room there is distress. When mother returns child is angry and resistant.
Parents tend to be inconsistent.
Working models of relationships
Global feelings about the nature and worth of close relationships and other people’s trustworthiness.
Two dimensions of attachment
anxiety and avoidance
Two dimensions of attachment Figure 15.3: What are the four subparts
Secure: Low/ Low
Preoccupied: Low avoidance/ High anxiety
Dismissive: Low anxiety/ High avoidance
Fearful: High/High
Securely attached
An attachment style characterized by a positive view of the self and others, low anxiety and avoidance, and satisfying, stable relationship.
Like having sex but usually within a committed relationship.
Anxious-ambivalent
An attachment style characterized by a negative view of the self but a positive vie of others, high anxiety, low avoidance, and intense but unstable relationships.
Men have intercourse less and fewer partners. Women more likely to have intercourse and less exclusivity in partners.