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Chapter 5: Romantic Love and Positive Families Flashcards

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1
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What is the hormone that increases the affection of love?

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Oxytocin

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Oxytocin creates an _ motivation to seek out social support.

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Increased

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_ _ are involved with social affiliation, diminishing stress.

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Endogenous Opioids.

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What is the need for affiliation?

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The need to feel like you belong

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What was Baumeister and Leary’s belongingness hypothesis?

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We have a need for long-lasting, positive and meaningful relationships.

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Married people are _ satisfied in life than _ people, in general.

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More, single

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Quality of marriage is a _ predictor of well-being, especially for women.

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significant

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What predicts quality of marriage?TCC IES

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Trust, communication, conflict management
Interactions, expressiveness, sharing

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The effect of marriage on well-being is stronger for _.

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Men

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Being married seems to improve _ health, as in lower _ pressure, lower _ to negative interactions and more _ health indicators.

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Physiological
Blood
Reactivity
positive

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Positive marital relationships lead to more…

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Longevity (live longer)

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What is the two factor theory of love made of?

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Passionate and companionate love.
All varieties came from these two elements.

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What is passionate love in the two factor theory?

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Intense longing for union with another, joyful emotional union and sexual fulfillment, terrible despair in rejection

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What is companionate love in the two factor theory? What are its four parts?ACFC

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Affection when life is deeply intertwined.
Affection, companionship, friendship, long term commitment

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What are the three parts of Sternberg’s Theory of Love?

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Commitment, intimacy, passion

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What is the ideal love, according to Sternberg?

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Consummate love

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How do the pieces of Sternberg’s love fair over time?

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Passion tapers off
Intimacy increases steadily over time
Commitment starts low and increases until highest point

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What are the 7 types of Sternberg loving?

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Liking (int)
Empty love (commit)
Fatuous love (pass+commit)
Infatuation (pass)
Romantic love (int+pass)
Companionate love (int+commit)
Consummate love (int+pass+commit)

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What are the four things that attracts us to someone according to the slides?

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Proximity
Physical attractiveness
Attitude similarity
Reciprocity

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What was the Festinger et al (1950) study and what did it find?

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More likely to be close to immediate neighbours and like people functionally close

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What is the matching phenomenon?

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Men and women to choose partners who match them in attractiveness

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What is the attachment model of love? What are Bartholomew and Horowitz’s attachment styles in adulthood?

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First relationship predicts all other relationships.
Secure, dismissive, preoccupied, fearful

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What are the two indicators of what attachment style will be?

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Self-image and image of others

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What seems to be a big predictor of relationship satisfaction?
It matters less how much you talk and more…

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Communication
What you talk about

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What did John and Julie Gottman recommend for relationships? (2)

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Turn towards each other more often and seek small gestures of attention, affection, humour or support.

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What are bids for attention?

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Small interactions that allow for another to respond with love and support.

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How you respond to bids for attention add up over time. How should you respond?

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Positively.

26
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What is capitalization in a relationship?

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Sharing positive events with others and seeing how respond

27
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What are the dimensions on how you can respond to good news?

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Active/passive
Constructive/destructive

28
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What are the four responses to capitalization?

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Active constructive (best)
Passive constructive (good but not elaborate, understate)
Active destructive (worst)
Passive destructive (bad, not even acknowledge good)

29
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What is self-disclosure?

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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others.

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What are the three important parts of self-disclosure?

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Transparency, allowing people to see our whole self
Disclosure reciprocity, disclose equal amounts over time
Caution, decide appropriate time to share

31
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How do you make a stable relationship (4)?

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Friendship
Culture of appreciation
Marry older, higher incomes, education, religious
Self-confidence and nurturance

32
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What are the 5 components of the minding model?KAARC

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Knowing and being known
Attribution
Acceptance and respect
Reciprocity
Continuity

33
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Who created the minding model?

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Harvey and Omarzu

34
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What is acceptance in relationships?

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A realistic acknowledgement of one’s partner with honesty

35
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What is the self-expansion model?

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A person expands their self-concept by incorporating qualities of those close to them.

36
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Frequency of cuddling, kissing, caressing and sex is associated with…

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Greater relationship satisfaction for all

37
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Cuddling does what in a relationship?

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Builds positivity, feeling cared for and nurtured

38
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What can lead to tenderness?

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Watching a romcom

39
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Children have _ impact on marital satisfaction.

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Little

40
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What about having children can cause problems?

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Stress, affective forecasting, unrealistic expectations

41
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Parenthood can _ life satisfaction.

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increase

42
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What is the best amount of kids?

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3

43
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What is the best person to have a child?

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Married, 30s, middle class, college educated

44
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There seems to be a psychological boost from parenting, for _ more than _.

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Women, men

45
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What are the four vital characteristics for a flourishing family?WDRR

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Warmth and respect
Democratic>authoritarian
Rules and practices encourage childrens autonomy and maturity
Friendly and constructive relationships with other families and wider community

46
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What are the parts of authoritative parenting? (4)RDCW

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Reasonable rules
High Demands
High Communication
High warmth and support

47
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Children of authoritative parents are better _ and experience greater self-_.

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Adjusted
Actualization

48
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Resilient families are…

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Healthy families that flourish after challenges

49
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Resilient families require _ and _ coparenting or marital relationships.

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Secure and loving

50
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Family centred positive psychology tells us how to work with _ and _ and promote their _ and _.

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Kids
Families
Strengths
Capacity

51
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Family centred positive psychology focuses on…

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Strengths and assets

52
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Marital satisfaction _ after kids.

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Decreases

53
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Satisfaction is _ during the initial years of marriage.

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High

54
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Marital satisfaction drops until children are in _ _, but satisfaction as parents and family increases.

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Young adolescence

55
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How can you not be less happy in your marriage after kids? (2)

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Stay attuned to each others lives, view parenthood as a collaboration

56
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How many good things to bad things do you need in the ratio?

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5/1

57
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Conflict is the primary cause of _ and communication problems are the top issue there.

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Divorce

58
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What is the demand withdraw pattern?

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Four step pattern, Gottman four horsemen.
Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, withdrawal

59
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What is stonewalling?

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When withdrawal turns into withdrawing attention to punish the other person`

60
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How did Gottman predict divorce 90%?

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Four horsemen, demand withdrawal

61
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What are the seven principles that make marriage work? LFT ISGM

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Enhance love maps
Nurture fondness
Turn towards rather than away
Let your partner influence you
Solve solvable problems
Overcome gridlock and move towards dialogue
Create shared meaning

62
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What are the 5 magic hours per week?

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5 hours per week, work daily, improve relationship satisfaction

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