Test 2 (Chapters 5-9) Flashcards
Characteristics of Healthy Relationships
Genuineness: Honest and accurate communication of thoughts and feelings
Empathy: stepping into another’s shoes and trying to understand someone else’s position regardless of personal feeling.
Unconditional Positive Regard: the ability to experience another person without judgement and negative feelings
Relationships & Expectations
Unrealistic Expectations:
- Expecting your partner to change
- Assuming that your partner has all the same opinions, priorities, interests, and goals as you
- Believing a relationship will fulfill all your personal, financial, intellectual, and social needs.
Jealousy
- The angry, painful response to a partner’s real, imagined, or possible involvement with something outside the relationship, like a person or activity
- Not healthy
- It is important to communicate early in a relationship
- Successfully addressing can strengthen relationship
Ending a Relationship
- Give the relationship a fair chance before breaking up
- Be fair and honest
- Be tactful and compassionate
- If you feel rejected, give yourself time to resolve your anger and pain
- Recognize the value in the experience
Effective Listening
- Provide appropriate non-verbal feedback
- Don’t interrupt
- Listen reflectively (Don’t judge, evaluate, analyze or offer solutions if not asked to)
- Don’t offer unsolicited advice
- Clarify your understanding of what is being said
- Be sure you are really listening
- Communicate that you value what is being said.
Effective Communication Skills
- Self-Disclosure (revealing personal information with risk)
- Listening (Genuinely make an effort to pay attention and listen)
- Feedback ( Be positive (if appropriate) and validating)
Conflict Resolution
Conflict is normal in all relationships resolution is essential
1st Step of Conflict Resolution
Clarify the Issue
2nd Step of Conflict Resolution
Find out What Each Person Wants
3rd Step of Conflict Resolution
Determine how you can both get what you want
4th Step of Conflict Resolution
Decide how to negotiate
5th Step of Conflict Resolution
Solidify the aggrements
6th Step of Conflict Resolution
Review and Renegotiate
Mutuality
Friends retain their individual identities, but close friendships are characterized by a sense of mutuality. Friends share ups and downs. “What affects you affects me”
Female Anatomy Quiz
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Male Anatomy Quiz
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Conception
The process of creating offspring.
Uterus (Womb)
Fertilized Egg
When can a fetus survive outside the uterus?
Early Signs of Pregnancy
Alcohol and Pregnancy
Contraception