Exam 3 Flashcards
Responsiveness
The verbal and nonverbal behavior that conveys support and affection to a partner
Intimacy
Loving relationships characterized by closeness, connectedness, and bonds
Need for affiliation
The innate drive to be in a relationship
Immediate context
(Contexts of intimacy) Physical setting, couple’s mood, couple’s reason for talking
Personal context
(Contexts of intimacy) The personal beliefs and needs in a relationship
Relational Context
(Contexts of intimacy) Characteristics of a relationship and how a couple defines it
Group Context
(Contexts of intimacy) The couple’s social network of family and peers
Sociocultural Context
(Contexts of intimacy) Society’s norms and beliefs that couples live and relate with
Emotional Attachment
Feelings that promote a sense of closeness, bonding with one another, and connection
What are the 3 prongs of intimacy according to Prager?
- Self disclosure
- Interpersonal Interactions
- Positive Feelings
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Intimacy Status
the commitment to and depth of a relationship
Intimate
A person capable of experiencing intimacy with another person
pseudo-intimate
A person or relationship that appears to be intimate but lacks depth
Stereotyped relationship
relationships where an individual has a number of causal relationships that are devoid of commitment
Isolates
People are socially withdrawn with no apparent need for social or close personal relationship
Merger Status
When intimate partners in a relationship experience an equal balance of power
Psychosocial Development
The social and emotional development of an individual
Eight Stages of man
Erik Erikson’s theory that social and emotional development is a lifelong process that takes place in eight stages
Pre Crowd stage
Isolated Same sex peer groups exist in the form of cliques or small groups
Beginning of the crowd
Same sex natured peer groups tend to grow to around 10 people in 8-9th grade
Crowd in Transition
During the end of junior high, peer groups are seen as in transition because smaller groups are found within the large crowd
Fully Developed Crowd
A group of opposite sex cliques
Crowd Disintegration
As people get older, they are no longer able to maintain small, group relationships, they begin to focus more on their significant other
Empathy
the capacity to understand another’s circumstances and the ability to feel and express emotional concern for that person
Identity
An individual’s sense of who he or she is
Individuation
Where teens begin to form an identity of their own, separate from their family’s
Autonomy
One’s desire to self rule or one’s will
Gender Typing
The process of developing the behaviors, thoughts, and emotions associated with a particular gender
Cross- Sex friendships
Friendships between different sex peers
Contact Hypothesis
The idea that negative stereotypes about other groups exist because of a lack of contact in between groups
Intergenerational Family Theory
The theory that patterns of relational functioning are passed down from generation to generation
Elopement
Secret marriages between love partners that take place without parental approval and or knowledge
Eros
Sensual or Sexual Love
Philos
Brotherly Love (friends and family)
Agape
Self-sacrificing, spiritual, unconditional love
Prototype
A model of something
Love Map
A mental blueprint of what ideal love should look like
Infatuation
An intense, extravagant, and often short-lived passion for another person
Simple infatuation
physical attraction that is often connected with daydreams and fantasies
Romantic infatuation
Romantic love, involves a complicated often overpowering blend of emotion and sexuality
Passionate love
A wildly powerful emotion of experience as intense longing for the selected love object
Fatuous
refers to infatuation-based relationships
Stalking
The obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities
Cyber Stalking
Online Stalking
Rejected Stalkers
Stalkers who want to reverse, or correct the rejection of their affections or love
Intimacy Stalkers
Stalkers who want to establish and intimate loving relationship with their victim
Incompetent stalkers
Stalkers who have poor social and emotional skills and have difficulty expressing themselves
Resentful Stalkers
Stalkers who are out for vengeance because they believe that they were wronged
Predatory Stalkers
Stalkers who spy on the victim in order to plan a sexual attack
Jealousy
An emotional reaction to the perception that a valued relationship is threatened because of a third party
Retroactive Jealousy
Occurs when a romantic partner is bothered by their partner’s past romantic and sexual relationships
Companionate Love
Deep, Tender, Mature, Affectionate attachment bonds shared between two people
Reward
the benefits from a social relationship
Triangular Theory of love
Robert Sternberg: Conceptualizes eight different types of love