Family Life & Interpersonal Relationships Flashcards
Instrumental and Terminal Values
Instrumental: a way of thinking that an indiv. values BEING
Terminal: goals/ideals a person works towards ATTAINING
Emotional intelligence
self awareness altruism motivation empathy ability to love/be loved
Self esteem
Largely determined in childhood
Can boost by positive talk and positive thinking
Refusal skills
Learning how to say “NO”
“I” Message
Acknowledging that individual controls own response
Gender diff
Women: taste, smell, hearing
Men: vision
Women: fine motor skills
Men: brute strength
Nature/nurture both create diff
Chemical love
Amphetamine like responses come from:
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Phenylethylamine
Anthropological love
Propagation oriented. Romance wanes after 4 years, enough time to have and raise an infant.
Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor stage, birth-2. Develops sense organs, learns objects exist out of sight
- Preoperational stage, 2-7. Sympathy develops. Ability to imagine mental lives of others.
- Concrete Operational stage, 7-12. Develops cognitive structures, including rule of conservation (volume does not change with shape)
- Formal Operational stage, 12-onward. Abstract thought, theory rather than empirical knowledge, is developed.
Infancy stage
Birth - 2
social attachment
basic motor skills
notions of cause/effect
Toddler stage
2-4
Language devel
fantasy and play
improvement in self control
Middle school stage
5-12 cooperation morals gender roles basic skills Awareness of place in world
Adolescence
12-22
Sexuality
Peers over family
Independence and personal identity
Young adult
23-30
Marriage, perhaps Family, and Career establishment
Middle adult
31-50
Household maintenance
Child rearing
Career Advancement
Later adult
51-death
Accept events of life
Develop healthy perspective on life and death
Redirect personal energy to new roles and responsibilities