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What similarities are seen between individuals and the partners they choose?

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Ethnicity
Age
Level of education
SES

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What may the similarities between people and their partners be really due to?

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May be reflective of how people meet

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In Australia, most people are married by what age?

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Mid-thirties

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How many of marriages in australia end in divorce?

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46%

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What are the three types of marriage?

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Equal partner relationship: both have equal roles
Conventional marriage: old fashioned, only the man works
Junior partnership: women are typically younger and are beautiful, the man typically has money

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What are the top 10 characteristics for long term partners?

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Warmth and kindness 
Expressiveness/openness 
Sense of humour 
Sexual passion 
Similarity in attitudes and values 
Exciting persoanlity 
Ambition 
Intelligence 
Similar interest in leisure activities 
Similar social skills
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Explain the trends in the median age entering marriage?

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Men, on average, are 2 years older than women - although this is narrowing

There has also been a reduction in marriage as people are getting married later

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Explain the trends in the number of divorces?

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They have increased steadily
massive spike in 1975 - no fault divorce laws came in and no longer had to prove their partner cheated etc,

Have again been decreasing because people arent getting married as much to begin with

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How many couples in Australia cohabit prior to marriage?

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3/4

Increasing numbers as a long-term alternative to marriage

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Explain age trends in people living with their partner before marriage?

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It is very common in young people - this drops off with age, people are waiting a lot longer to get married

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What percentage of cohabitating couples are same-sex? and how many of these households have children present?

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0.5% with only 11% having children

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Same-sex couples that live together prior to marriage are more likely to….

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Break up within 10 years

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Having a child brings…

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conflict to a couple

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If mothers experience mismatches their experience, what happens?

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They may have mood instability and experience declines in relationship satisfaction

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In single parenthood, what are the main differences between families that thrive and those that struggle?

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They:

  • accept challenges and responsibilities
  • give priority to the parenting role
  • use consistent authoritative parenting strategies
  • emphasise open parent-child communication
  • foster individuality
  • recognise the need for self-nurturance
  • establish family traditions
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What percentage of men may never marry?

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27%

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What percentage of women may never marry?

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23%

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Explain how childlessness has increased over generations?

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There may be delays in childbearing and attitudes which allow couples to not have children
Infertility is also an issue

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Explain early articulators and postponers in childlessness

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Early articulators - emphasise early on that they do not want to have kids

Postponers - plan to have kids later on

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How does late childbearing promote differences in family in middle adulthood?

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Delated childbearing causes midlife parents to still have teenage or younger children at home

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Other married people are happier, healthier and longer-lived than…

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Than widowed or divorced people of the same age

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Why are older widowed men more likely to remarry than older women?

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Widowed women are happier - perhaps don’t have to do as much cooking and cleaning as before, as well as typically confiding in their adult daughters or female friends - men typically confide in their wife and have conventionally not had to do much cooking or cleaning

Women also live longer - there are more women available to get married to

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What are vertical relationships?

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Adult and child relationships

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What are horizontal relationships?

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Peer relationships

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Peer relationships are…

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An essential feature of childhood

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Why are peer relationships important?

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They encourage the development of self-regulating behavior

They are vital for adequate social-emotional development

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By interacting with their peers, children learn to

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  • regulate emotions
  • interact and communicate with same-sex parents
  • develop skills for forming close personal relationships
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At what age do friendships begin to develop?

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3 years

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Friendships at 3 years are based around…

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The desire to play, fun and companionship

30
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What does friendship evolve to being more about?

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Goes from toys and fun to loyalty and intimacy

31
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What did Damon & Hart suggest were the 3 stages in children’s view of friendship?

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  1. Others’ behaviours (4-7yrs) this is about playing together
  2. Trust (8-10yrs)
  3. Psychological closeness (11-15yrs) - liking someone for who they are and what they do
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What do friendships provide a child with?

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Provide them with information about the world, themselves and others

Provide emotional support

Reduce chances of being bullied

Provide them with the skills to be able to control and interpret their own emotions

Provide training for interacting with others

Increase their range of experiences

33
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Friendships promote…

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development from ego-centrism

34
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What do children need to do to gain peer acceptance?

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Need to conform to group norms

35
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What do close friends provide?

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A more intimate level of disclosure, support and trust

36
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The structure of what influences friendship formation and stability?

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School/classroom structure

37
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What personal characteristics influence friendship formation and stability?

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The characteristics of the friend (attractiveness, intelligence)

Relationship with the friend (satisfaction and commitment)

38
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What characteristics are typical of children who are rejected by peers?

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Those that are disruptive and aggressive

Those that are socially withdrawn

Other kids don’t want to play with them or may label them

39
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Once a child has been labelled, what is difficult?

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To be accepted by peers and developing skills peers provide

40
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Peer rejection as a child leads to what later in life?

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Social difficulties

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Explain Crick and Dodge’s information processing model of social competence. How does it relate to children rejected by their peers?

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  1. Attend to social cues
  2. Interpret cues
  3. Clarify desired outcome
  4. Recall/generate strategies to respond
  5. Decide and enact response

Rejected children can have problems at any one of these steps but number 2, interpreting cues, is the most common difficulty

42
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What can lead to improvements in Crick and Dodge’s information processing model of social competence?

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Social skills training can be used to help with any of these steps

43
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What weakens in peer relationships during adolescence?

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Gender segregation

44
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What did Dunphy say were the 2 types of adolescent groups?

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Cliques - small groups of 3-9 members who are close to each other

Crowd - clique members are also a part of a wider group

45
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Explain cliques, crowds and how gender segregation weakens

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Cliques may begin as mostly same sex (little-no merging of cliques into crowds)

Bow and girl clicks become aware of each other and begin to socialise

High status boys and girls come together to form a mixed-sex clique - those leftover distribute themselves into other mixed-sex groups =loosely linked crowds

May disintegrate as couples form

46
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In free play, children are 4x more likely to play in same sex groups. Why might this be?

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May be due to compatibility of interaction styles and activities

47
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Why are friendships in adolescence important?

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Provide social and emotional support at stressful times

Promote autonomy

Helps to define sense of self

Influence development

48
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In adult hood, people rely on friendships more than family for…

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Support and intimacy

49
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In adulthood, what can friendship provide you?

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Enjoyment
Validation 
Intimacy 
Acceptance
Stimulation 
Trust
Companionship

Encourage health supporting behaviour

50
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Friendship in adulthood is associated with…

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Well-being, mental health and self-esteem

51
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Are there any gender differences in social support network composition in adulthood?

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No. There were no gender differences

52
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How do older adults define friendship?

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Behavioural aspects 
Cognitive processes (appraisal of friendship)
Affective components (happy, joy, love)
Structural characteristics 
Proxy indicators (frequency and length of time)
53
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What is personality?

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The characteristics and qualities typical of an individual

54
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What is personality development?

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The extent to which values, interests and preferences that are then reflected in behaviours change across the lifespan

55
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What are the 3 components of personality as proposed by freud’s psycho sexual approach

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The id, ego and superego

56
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What is the id?

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It is present at birth, and unconscious

Impulsively tries to satisfy biological needs

57
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What is the ego?

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It is rational, conscious and problem solves

- Develops as infants learn to delay gratification

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What is the superego?

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The moral and ethical component

59
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By what age does Freud’s psychosexual approach suggest all parts of personality are developed?

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Age 5

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What are frueds psychosexual stages?

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Oral (b-1) - feeding and weaning
Anal (1-3) - Elimination and toilet training
Phallic (3-6) - Gender roles and moral development
Latency (6-12) - Physical and intellectual activities
Genital (12-a) - onset of puberty, mature sexual relationships

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What does Freud suggest is occurring throughout his psychosexual stages?

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There is conflict between the id, ego and superego

If fixation occurs to any of the stages, there can be implications for personality development

62
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What was Erikson’s approach to personality development?

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Also had psychosocial stages with conflicts (contain harmonious and disruptive concepts - need to find a balance)

The way you resolve conflict determines your personality

63
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What is the behaviourist approach to personality?

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Rejects that personality comes form internal conflicts

Seen instead as the sum of all learned associations

64
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What is the social cognitive approach to personality?

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Learning new information from watching other people
Claims personality development occurs through a persons social world, including self regulation
(Bandura)

65
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What are Bandura’s 3 steps to personality development?

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  1. Self-observation: monitoring our own behaviour
  2. Judgement: compare our behaviour with traditional or self-defined standards
  3. Reward or punishment, according to the judgement
66
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What is the trait approach to personality?

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Traits are internal psychological dispositions that remain largely unchanged throughout the lifespan and across situations

These traits determine differences between individuals

67
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What are Eysenck’s gigantic 3?

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Neuroticism
Extraversion
Psychoticism

Can be high or low in these traits

68
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What is the 5 factor model of personality?

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5 personality traits or factors 
Neuroticism 
Extraversion 
Openness 
Agreeableness 
Conscientiousness

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