Relationships Flashcards
Interpersonal Relationships
Attachments in which bonds of family or friendship or love or respect or hierarchy tie together two or more individuals over an extended period of time.
Working Model of Relationships
A conceptual model of relationships with our current partners-including their availability, warmth, and ability to provide security-as derived from our childhood experience with how available and warm our parents were.
Strange Situation
An experimental situation designed to assess an infant’s attachment to the caregiver. An infant’s reactions are observed after her caregiver has left her along in an unfamiliar room with a stranger and then when the caregiver returns to the room (the reunion).
Secure Attachment Style
An attachment style characterized by feelings of security in relationships. Individuals with this style are comfortable with intimacy and want to be close to others during times of threat and uncertainty.
Anxious Attachment Style
An attachment style characterized by feelings of insecurity in relationships. Individuals with this style exhibit compulsive self-reliance, prefer distance from others, and are dismissive and detached during times of threat and uncertainty.
Relational Self Theory
A theory that examines how prior relationships shape our current beliefs, feelings, and interactions vis-a-vis people who remind us of significant others from our past.
Relational Self
The beliefs, feelings, and expectations that we have about ourselves that derive from our relationships with significant others in our lives.
Communal Relationships
Relationships in which the individuals feel a special responsibility for one another and give and receive according to the principle of need; such relationships are often long-term.
Exchange Relationships
Relationships in which the individuals feel little responsibility toward one another and in which giving and receiving are governed by concerns about equity and reciprocity; such relationships are often short-term.
Power
The ability to control our own outcomes and those of others; the freedom to act.
Status
The outcome of an evaluation of attributes that produces differences in respect and prominence, which in part determines an individual’s power within a group.
Authority
Power that derives from institutionalized roles or arrangements.
Dominance
Behavior that has the acquisition or demonstration of power as its goal.
Approach/Inhibition Theory
A theory that states that higher-power individuals are inclined to go after their goals and make quick judgements, whereas low-power individuals are more likely to constrain their behavior and attend to others carefully.
Social Dominance Orientation
The desire to see one’s own group dominate other groups.
