Personal Relationships Flashcards
1
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Describe the processes of romantic attraction.
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2
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Describe the processes of intimate relationships.
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3
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Explain Sternberg’s triangular theory of love.
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- Consummate love: intimacy, passion, commitment
- Companionate love: intimacy + commitment
- Empty love: commitment alone
- Fatuous love: passion + commitment
- Infatuation: passion alone (starts to fade after 6-30 months)
- Romantic love: intimacy + passion
- Liking: intimacy alone
4
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What are the 5 love languages?
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- Words of affiirmation: verbal compliments, words of appreciation, straight forward or indirect statements that help someone feel worthy or loved
- Quality time: focused and full attention, quality conversation and activities done together
- Giving gifts: inexpensive or expensive, purchased or handmade
- Acts of service: housework, yard work, organizational work, buying groceries, doing what partner has asked you to do in past month
- Physical touch
5
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What are signs of emotional abuse?
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- Attempting to control various aspects of your life
- Frequently humiliating you and making you feel bad about yourself
- Wanting to know where you are and who you’re with at all times
- Becoming jealous or angry when spending time with friends
- Threatening to harm you
- Trying to coerce you into doing what you’re not comfortable with
6
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What is physical monogamy and emotional monogamy?
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- Physical monogamy: defined as exclusive physical sexual experience with one’s partner
- Emotional monogamy: sets boundaries around emotional connections and affairs with others outside of primary relationship, can include relationships at work, friends, and online
7
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What is social and serial monogamy?
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- Social monogamy: perception of being monogamous by others
- Serial monogamy: where committed monogamous relationship is entered into until the relationship ends and another monogamous relationship beings
8
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What is polyamory and an open relationship?
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- Open relationship: partners agree to sexual involvement with others outside of primary relationship
- Polyamory: acceptance of having intimate relationships with more than one person at a time, with both knowledge and consent of everyone involved
9
Q
What is cohabitation?
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Couples that live together (common-law relationship)
10
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What are the 7 key factors used to determine whether people are cohabiting?
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- Shelter: share accomodation
- Sexual and personal behaviour: intimate interdependant relationship
- Services: share traditional functions of family
- Social: portray themselves as couple to the world
- Societal: how are unmarried partners treated by their community?
- Children: do unmarried couple see children as part of their home and interact parentally with each other’s children if there are any?
11
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What is sexual identity? What is gender? What is gender identity, presentation, and roles?
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- Sexual identity: biology or personal self-identificaiton perspective (who they are attracted to)
- Gender: built on role we play by society in which we live
- Gender identity: person’s internal sense of themselves where they may identify as being male, female, or transgender
- Gender presentation: influences way individuals manage their appearance, dress, behave, and present gender identity
- Gender roles: socially determined behavioural rules and standards assigned to men and women in our society
12
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How do people identify their gender?
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- Male
- Female
- Androgynous: identify as neither male or female
- Intersex: people who were born with male and female anatomy
- Transgender: umbrella term for people whose gender identity or expression differs from sex assigned at birth
13
Q
What is sexual diversity?
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- Bisexual: attracted to both sexes
- Heterosexual: primary sexual orientation is toward members of opposite sex
- Homosexual: person who is sexually or romantically attracted to individuals of the same sex
14
Q
What are the different types of sexual activity?
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b
15
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What are the different types of sexual behaviour?
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