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Theory

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General principle that is used to understand certain events or experiences

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Framework

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A systematic structure for classifying families

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Ecological Theory

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Concerned with the many social and cultural contexts that affect family living. (Brofenbrenner)

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Family Development theory

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Divides the experiences of the family into phases or stages of change that are associated with growth and development

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Conflict Theory

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Conflict is normal and expected in family, and this conflict shapes the individual and the society

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Symbolic interaction theory

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How people form and share meanings in their communication efforts

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Social Exchange theory

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Focuses on the costs and rewards associated with human beings

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Instrumental roles

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(Structural- Functionalist Theory) Roles for the male such as making money, working, etc, so the family can remain stable

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Expressive Roles

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(Structural- Functionalist Theory) the roles for the female, they were to be caring, people-orientated, and emotional so that family can remain stable

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What does the Structural- Functionalist Theory want?

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This theory wants all of the separate parts (families) of the whole (society) to be in EQUILIBRIUM

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Structures

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Patterns of role arrangement in a society

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Karl Marx

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Germain Economist who believed that every aspect of human life is based on economics and economic relationships

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Why did marriage evolve as a legal contract?

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so that the property owned by a man could one kept

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Feminist theory

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Embraces the CONFLICT APPROACH, and focuses on the role that women play in society

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Marxist Feminist theory

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Says that inequality towards women sprouts from lower class position

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Radical Feminist theory

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Women experience oppression because of the patriarchy

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Liberal Feminist theory

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Women oppression is from sexism in society

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Lesbian Feminist theory

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Women oppression (especially Lesbian) is from heterosexual dominance in society

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Women of Color Feminist theory

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Women of Color are oppressed because society is racist

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Men’s Studies

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Study of male/female relationships/conflicts from the male perspective

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When did men begin to play more active roles in raising kids?

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roughly in the 1980s

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Psychosocial

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The Social and emotional aspects of development

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Infancy (0-2)

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Infants show unique personality traits. they begin to walk, talk, and trust

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Early Childhood (2-6)

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Children are curious and begin to figure out their gender, and what their roles are emotionally and physically

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Middle Childhood (the school years 7-12)

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Moral Development, sense of self esteem. They begin to compare themselves with others and see differences

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Adolescence (13-21)

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Rapid Body changes, self-esteem solidifies. They begin to form their own identity

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Early Adulthood (22-34)

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Forming intimate Relationships, childbearing typically begins

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Middle adulthood (35-60)

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Adults begin to find an awareness of their own morality and are reflective about their lives

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Late Middle adulthood (61-74)

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Begin to feel a responsibility for future generations. They begin to serve others

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Late Adulthood (75+)

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“Life Review” Adults begin to reflect on their lives and prepare things for when they are gone

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Family Life Cycle

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The cycle consisting of multiple entrances and exits from the family of origin

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Pairing and Marriage

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Fusion as a couple

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Childbearing

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Creation of children

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School-Age Children

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Nurturing

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Family with adolescent Children

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Boundary Testing

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Family as a launching Ground

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Leaving/ Letting go

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Middle Years

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Reviewing/ Reappraising

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Aging

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Facing Morality

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Stages

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the level of the game - The place and time you are in

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Development

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Change across time

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Developmental Task

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Boss Level - The main task that needs to be completed to move onto the next stage

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Transition

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Moving from one stage to another after each DEVELOPMENTAL TASK

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Normative Event

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A normal event in one’s life at a stage
ex. Getting married

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Non-Normative Event

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A non- normal event in one’s life at a stage
ex. Having a kid when one is 80 years old

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On time event

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An event that happens at a normal time in a culture

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Off Time event

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An event that happens at an abnormal time in a culture
ex. Grandma going to college

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Epigenesis Principle

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The decisions that you make at one point in time keep you from making other choices in life.
ex. If you first semester of college was at OBU, you can never have another first semester of college

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Structural Functionalism

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theory that sees society as an interconnected system with each part having a different function while still working together

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Manifest Function

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Obvious functions in society

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Latent Functions

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Things people don’t know about within functions

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Conflict

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Disagreements

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What does conflict do?

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Brings about change in a family

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Cooperation

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Seems like both people are giving in

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Negotiation

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Process of trying to get what one wants

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Coalition

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When people make teams for something

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Consensus

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When all parties agree

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Family Systems Theory

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Seeing Families as units. Focuses on interactions between family members

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Whole _ Sum of parts

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Whole > Sum of parts

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Transactional

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Where our exchanges with others affect our intimate relations

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General Systems Theory

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A worldview or a paradigm that puts forth the notion that objects do not exist in isolation, but are interconnected as a whole

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System

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To connect one thing to another

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Family System

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An ever-changing group of family members that organizes themselves into an ordered manner

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Subsystems

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The patterns and interactions among the separate individuals in a family

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Boundary

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What separates our environment or from other family members

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Closed Boundaries

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Boundaries where no information goes through

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Open Boundaries

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Boundaries where information is always spread. This type hurts family members

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Homeostasis

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Balance

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Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

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A model that is used to assess a families health and functioning

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Communication rules

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Govern what Family members can and cannot share

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Symbolic Interaction theory

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Assumes that human behavior ought to always be observed and responded to

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Symbols

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Codes that are used to signify things in different cultures

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Meanings

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the definition we assign to verbal and nonverbal interactions

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Role

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Key concept in Symbolic Interaction Theory- a system of meanings

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Message

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The obvious meaning of the thing being communicated

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Metamessage

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The underlying context in which the communication takes place
ex. Men are problem solvers so in conversation, they are wanting to solve a problem

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Trouble Talk

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Emotional or relationship talk

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Communication

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The process of making and sharing meanings

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Verbal Communication

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Exchanges of thoughts messages or information through speech

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Non-Verbal Communication

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Communications via facial expressions and body language

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Emotional Communication

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The physical movements and gestures that convey our emotions

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Relational Messages

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Messages that have something to do with the relationship.

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Non-relational Messages

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Messages that concern things outside of the relationship

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Decode

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To interpret unspoken exchanges

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Functional Communication

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Communication that only discusses daily life

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Nurturing Communication

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Interactions that convey intimacy and emotion

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Relational Culture

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A framework of understanding that couples make in private

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Confirming Messages / Responses

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Validation that one wants to be in the relationship through recognition and willingness to work with the other person

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Self Disclosure

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Voluntarily sharing private or personal things with someone else

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emotional Safety

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The high degree of trust required to self disclose

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Family meetings

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Gatherings among family members to discuss something

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Active listening

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Listening so that we can listen and internalize what is being said

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Reflective Listening

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A type of active listening where one reflects on and acknowledges one’s perspectives

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Reframe

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To view an issue from another perspective

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Constructive conflict

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Conflict that works to improve a relationship

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Regulated Couples

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Use communication patters that promote closeness and intimacy

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Destructive Conflict

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Any kind of conflict that hurts a relationship

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scapegoating

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Where members of the family all put their problems onto one person

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Gunnysacking

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when someone builds up anger and lets it all out when an argument arises

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non-regulated Couples

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Couples that have a hard time bouncing back from conflict

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Stonewalling

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When communication between marital partners completely shuts down

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Forgiveness

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An intentional process that transforms a strong desire for revenge to positive response

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Direct forgiveness

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Family members or partners clearly tell someone that they forgive them

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Indirect forgiveness

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Family members or partners show forgiveness not by words but by actions

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Conditional Forgiving

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Forgiving someone, but making sure that boundaries are now in play

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Narcissistic Entitlement

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The sense of only being entitled to the good

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Self Righteousness

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When a person cannot see that they have a problem or have made a mistake

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Sex

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Biological traits that distinguish male from female

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Gender

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The sum of our developmental experiences and how it applies to our identity, role, presentation, etc.

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XX Chromosome

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Female Genetic Blueprint

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XY Chromosome

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Male Genetic Blueprint

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Sexual Differentiation

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A series of events where an embryo gains male or female characteristics

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Sex Hormones

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Hormones that affect the embryo in the womb and the child in puberty

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Sexual Orientation

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The focus of another persons desires/ fantasies towards another gender. (What gender someone chooses to like)

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Gender Identity

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The gender that a person thinks they are

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Androgen

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The group of masculinizing sex hormones

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Testosterone

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the male hormone produced by the testis

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Estrogen

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the feminizing hormone

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Gender Binary

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The classification of gender into two separate, disconnected forms. (whether because of social or cultural)

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Intersex

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Someone whose genitalia are are indistinguishable

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Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)

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A mismatch between a person’s genetic sex and the appearance of their genitals

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Cisgender

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A person whose birth sex and gender are in alignment

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Nonbinary

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A person who doesn’t fall into the male or female category

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Gender Non-Conforming (Gender Fluid)

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People who don’t conform to what society says about gender norms

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Sexual Preference

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The term used by people who believe that sexuality is fluid about biology vs choice

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Gender Expression

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External manifestations of gender

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Transgender

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People who have a gender Expression or identity that does not match their birth sex

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Transexual

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Someone who wants to or has changed their body medically to be that of another sex

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Gender Dysphoria

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The distress a person feels because their assigned sex doesn’t match their gender identity

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Sex Confirmation Surgery (SCS)

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the surgical alteration of ones body from one sex to another

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Gender Polarization

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A model where cultural viewpoints almost always emphasize the differences between man and woman

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Gender Socialization

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the specific things that culture says to do if you are a man or a woman

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Gender roles

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the cultural Norms for male and female behaviors and attitudes

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Masculinity

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a socially / culturally constructed beliefs and roles that are mainly attributed to men

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Hegemonic Masculinity

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Each culture’s ideal standard of masculinity for which men are to aim

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Machismo

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common in Latin America, the idea that men are superior to women socially, and physically

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Masculine Gender Roles Stress Theory

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The theory that men get stressed because they are not meeting societies standards of masculinity

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Femininity

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The qualities and behaviors from a society that a woman should have

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Marianismo

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The belief in Latin Culture that women are semi-divine and superior to men

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Gender Inequality

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the obvious disparities between genders in society

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Sexism

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Prejudice of someone because of their sex

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Glass Ceiling

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Discrimination against women in the workplace. This term shows that there is a blockade for women to continue upward in the workplace

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Wage Gap

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The inequality between the wages of men and women in America

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Confidence gap

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The phenomenon where women are less confident in their academic ability then men are

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Intersectionality

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the interconnected nature of social categorizations

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Gender Schemas

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The ways in which we internalize and incorporate specific gendered behaviors and expectations

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Instrumental Schemas

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Patterns associated with masculinity that focus on task oriented behaviors and getting the job done

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Expressive Schemas

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Patterns of behavior associated with femininity that have an interpersonal or relational orientation

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Androgyny

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Without assigned gender value, when a person possesses traits/ behaviors typically associated with the opposite gender

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Gender Role Development

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the process where children acquire behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions that fit their sex

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Learning Theory

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The Theory that traits and behaviors are not inborn but learned

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Social Learning theory

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Albert Bandura ; theory that children acquire traits and behaviors by observing others

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Cognitive Development Theory

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The theory that kids cannot be affected by societies views of gender until they have their own idea of gender

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Gender Stability

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the realization that kids have where the realize that they were always, and will always be the same gender

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Gender Constancy

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The realization (around k-2 grade) where kids realize that if someone acts as the opposite gender, that does not make them the opposite gender

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Homosocial Play

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Children’s preference for same-sex playmates

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Proposed amendment to the constitution to prohibit sex discrimination

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Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA)

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Federal Law signed by Bill Clinton that provided more than $1.6 Billion for financial restitution to women who were victims of violent crimes

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Sexual Harassment

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Any unwelcome physical or sexual conduct by either gender directed to a person of either gender

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