Week 6

Question 1

What is cognitive interdependence?

Answer 1

Partners become incorporated into our self-concept.

Question 2

What is behavioural interdependence?

Answer 2

We do things for each other and together.

Question 3

What is affective interdependence?

Answer 3

Demonstrate intimacy and commitment.

Question 4

How do social relationships exert a sustained influence on human health and morality?

Answer 4

• social isolation - negative consequences.
• social integration - positive and negative - depends on type of behaviour.

Question 5

What physical symptoms can be linked to negative/hostile interactions with close partners?

Answer 5

• disrupted physiological stress responses
• poor immune responses
• chronic pain
• slower wound healing

Question 6

How can relationships be threatened?

Answer 6

Because interdependence can lead to disagreements and because external factors can trigger relationship breakdown.

Question 7

3 threats to relationships

Answer 7

• external factors
• stresses from social norms (gender roles)
• suspected infidelity

Question 8

What type of infedility are women more concerned about?

Answer 8

emotional infeditity - it threatens the substainability of a long-term relationship.

Question 9

What type of infedility are men more concerned about?

Answer 9

sexual infedility because it can increase the uncertainty of paternity, reduce the chance of having their own biological child and allocating resources to a child that is not their own.

Question 10

What is the most common reason for divorce?

Answer 10

Infidelity - associated with poorer mental health.

Question 11

The investment model

Answer 11

Used to predict and explain infidelity in dating relationships.

Question 12

What is commitment

Answer 12

A motivation to continue a relationship - primarily determinant of relationship longetivity or termination

Question 13

What are predicting levels of relationship commitment?

Answer 13

• relationship satisfaction
• investments
• percieved quality alternatives

Question 14

What does the Investment model demonstrate?

Answer 14

How relationship commitment influences how individuals manage their attraction to others.

Question 15

How can conflicts be handled?

Answer 15

Constructively (actively discussing the problem) or destructively (reciprocity or negative feelings and acts).

Question 16

What are the 4 types of problematic communication often used in conflict?

Answer 16

• critism that characteristics of a person as a whole
• concept
• defensiveness
• stonewalling (refusal to communicate)

Question 17

Secure attachments

Answer 17

• accommodate more positively than others.
• experience less jealousy.

Question 18

Preoccupied or fearful attachments

Answer 18

• more likely to show strong, negative emotions.

Question 19

When is constructive accommodation more likely?

Answer 19

• when couples are committed
• among couples who idolize eachother
• among couples who believe relationships need to be ‘worked on’.

Question 20

When is constructive accommodation less likely?

Answer 20

• among couples who believe they and their current partner are destined to be together.
• quicker end to relationship if satisfaction fails.

Question 21

Content analysis

Answer 21

designed to develop your experience of categorising textual data that shows how many times a response falls into a specific theme/catagory.

Question 22

Steps of content analysis

Answer 22

1) Data familisation
2) Inital coding generation
3) Searching for themes based on initial coding
4) Review of the themes
5) Theme definition and labelling
6) Tally chart