Relationships Flashcards
Attachment
Relationship with child and caregiver that will set stage for later relationships
Secure base
Caregiver provides security and protection
Bowlby’s Attachment Theory
Early relationships with parents are internalized and later predict how individual will interact in relationships
Internal working model
Set of expectations about caregiver’s availability and responsiveness in times of stress
Secure attachment
- Trusting and open
- Caregiver is source of comfort and security
- Best psychological outcomes
Anxious attachment
- Anxious, uncertain, clingy
- Result of unreliable caregiver
- Difficult to comfort when scared
Avoidant attachment
- Avoids closeness (emotional)
- Result of unavailable/ abusive caregivers
- Child learns to distrust relationships
How does secure adult attachment improve life
- Better coping
- Less intense grief
- Higher physical energy
What traits do avoidant people have
Low extraversion, low agreeableness, low conscientiousness
What traits do anxiously attached people have
High neuroticism, low conscientiousness, likely to be upset when separated from partner
Which of the big 5 decreases relationship satisfaction?
Neuroticism
Which of the big 5 improve relationship satisfaction?
Conscientiousness and agreeableness
What does openness to experience contribute to relationships?
Motivated to incorporate aspects of partner’s identity to expand self
For big 5 traits, do opposites attract?
Yes but so long as they aren’t towards the extremes
3 aspects of the dark triad
psychopathy, machiavellianism, narcisism
Psychopathy (4)
Lack of empathy, increased impulsivity, don’t care about suffering of others, natural trait
Machiavellianism (4)
Lack of empathy, exploitation of others for own gain, unemotional, ignore morality
Narcisism (3)
Lack of empathy, grandiosity, only care about themselves and their image
Which big 5 trait are people exhibiting dark triad shit low in
Agreeableness
What are possible evolutionary reasons for dark triad?
Combat system (appear attractive, engage in mate poaching, more offspring)
