Personal Development Flashcards
It refers to a close connection between adolescents, formed by emotional bonds and interactions.
Personal Relationships
The said bonds grow from and are strengthened by mutual experiences. Are not permanent. They develop and continually change over time that derives some benefits from them where we need skills, information, inspiration, practice and social support.
Personal Relationships
The type of relationship which to closely associated with a person and which can only have meaning in this person
Personal Relationships
The two characteristics that define personal relationship.
Privacy and Intimacy
It also involves a degree of commitment to another person of persons in contrast, an impersonal and informal relationship may have a commitment not to a person of group of persons, but to an entity such as business organization, a principle, or cause.
Personal Relationships
Notes a research finding by Bowly (1982) that our succeeding relationships in the future are all shaped largely by our attachment to our parents, A mother who gazes at her child’s face and the child responding with a smile are the foundations of our sense of physical and psychological well-being.
Rozenberg Quarterly
Is when the primary caregiver is the most of the time present and available and when all the emotional needs of an infant are met providing a sense of security to the infant. Chances are, a child who is exposed to this style of attachment will grow up to have more secure and stable relationships
Secure Attachment
Is when the primary caregiver is cold and detach and even unresponsive to child’s need. The child senses rejection and this often leads to premature detachment and self-reliance. A person who experienced this style of attachment in infancy and childhood will oftentimes experience unstable relationships in the future and may even clam to be the “rugged individual who can go through life with little established relationships where intimacy is present.
Avoidant Attachment
Is when the primary caregiver is not consistent in terms of presence and in meeting, a child’s emotional needs. Often, a person who experienced this style of attachment in childhood may have mixed feelings between hesitancy and commitment when entering into meaning in relationship.
Anxious-ambivalent Attachment
According to Fischer, there are three stages of falling in love
- Lust
- Attraction
- Attachment
It is driven by the sex hormones, testosterone, and estrogen. These hormones affect
Lust
Is described as the love-struck phase, which involves neurotransmitters in the brain such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. This is the stage when a person
Attraction
Is when the couple in love decides to continue with the relationship, they enter the attachment stage where long-lasting commitments are exchanged, and may lead to farsing a family. Special hormones are also secreted during this stage Oxytocin, which is released during childbirth to help in breastfeeding and during orgasm, is believed to promote intimacy, and vasopressin, which promotes long-term relationships
Attachment
Also involves our unconscious assessment of another person’s gone through their physical appearance. These genes are usually determinants of good health that will also produce healthy children. Both male and female are often attracted to symmetry because this is also an indication of reproductive health, particularly with women whose waist to hip ratio is ideally pegged at 0.70
Attraction
An odorless chemical found in urine and sweat and can only be detected through organ as the nose, are also involved in the assessment of a future mate, this is an indication of a person’s immune system. Research indicates that women prefer men whose immune systems are different from theirs.
Pheromones
Rozenberg’s Theories and Research Results related to attraction and liking
- Transference Effect
- Propinquity Effect
- Similarity
- Reciprocity
- Physical Attractiveness
- Personality Characteristics and Traits
Proximity as another possible factor why we like a person. We often develop a sense of familiarity with people who live close to us, work with us, or go to school with us, which leads us to liking then more, people we are familiar with make us feel safe and secure.
Propinquity Effect
These are times we meet people who we immediately like or dislike. Usually, these people remind us of someone in the past who has affected our sense of self behavior. On past relationship can therefore affect mor current interactions with people. We may prefer some and avoid others because of a bad experience we had with someone we associated this new person with.
Transference Effect
We often like people who we have similarities with, such as social class background, religious beliefs, age, and education. We often attracted to like-minded persons who have similar beliefs and values as ours.
Similarity
We like people who like us back. It is a stronger basis for liking another person than similarity. The more we liked by someone we equally like, the more we behave in ways to promote mutual feelings of liking.
Reciprocity
Is a major factor of liking someone, and usually, first impression counts a lot, too. Connotes positive health and reproductive fitness, Which are both essential to human survival. The physical features that are usually found as attractive are average facial features, which are found to be a component of beauty, higher cheekbones, thinner jaws, and large eyes. Average facial features do not mean common, but rather fall within the average of a population. Bilateral symmetry is also found to be attractive.
Physical Attractiveness
People get attracted to two characteristics that lead to liking other person, these emphatic persons, who exude warmth and sympathy and who are also optimistic and maintain positive views; and socially competent persons, who are good communicators and enjoy good conversations
Personality Characteristics and Traits
Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
- Intimacy
- Passion
- Commitment
Intimacy+Passion
Romantic Love
Passion+Commitment
Fatuous Love
Intimacy+Commitment
Companionate Love
Intimacy+Passion+Commitment
Consummate Love
Researchers Reis, Clark and Holmes (2004), and Reis and Shaver (1998) defined
it as “that lovely moment when someone understands and validates us.” In more poetic manner, John Joseph Powell, author of the book. The Secret of Staying in
Love defined it with these words “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty……”
Intimacy
It is a key component in developing intimacy, where self-disclosure is practiced which leads to profound and meaningful conversation that nature and strengthen intimacy Self disclosure requires honesty for it to work, and is a tool in enhancing the love relationship between two persons.
Communication