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Week Nine - Family/Friendships & Personlity Flashcards

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1
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What similarities do we see between individuals and the partners they choose?

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Ethnicity
SES
Age
Education

  • may be reflective of how people meet
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What are the 3 types of marriage?

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equal partner relationship
conventional marriage
junior partnership

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How many people cohabitate?

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3/4 - increased dramatically

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Why did we see increase in divorce rates?

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New divorce laws were introduced and no longer had to prove anything

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Having a child often?

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Brings increased conflict to a couple

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If a mothers experience mismatches their ideas, what happens?

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They may have mood instability and experience declines in relationship satisfaction

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What are the main differences between families who thrive/struggle?

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Thriving families

  • accept challenges/responsibility
  • give priority to parenting role
  • use consistent authoritative parenting
  • emphasise communication
  • foster individuality
  • nurture
  • establish traditions
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What % of men/worry dont marry?

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27% of men, 23% of women

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Why has childlessness increased?

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Delays in childbearing
Changes in attitudes
Ill health
Infertility

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What are early articulators and postponers?

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Emphasise early on that they do not want children

Plan to have kids later

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Older married people tend to be?

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Happier, healthier and long-lived than widowed/divorced people

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Why are older widowed men more likely to remarry?

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They don’t do as well without a partner

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What are vertical relationships?

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Adult-child

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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 development of self-regulating behaviour

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By interacting with peers, children learn how to?

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Regulate their emotions
Interact and communicate
Develop skills for forming close personal relationships

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What age do friendships begin?

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By age 3, based on the desire to play, fun and companionship

  • usually dissolve
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What do friendships change to in middle childhood?

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More focus on loyalty/intimacy

20
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What are Damon & Harts 3 stages in children’s view on friendship?

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  1. others behaviour (4-7)
  2. trust (8-10)
  3. psychological closeness (11-15)
21
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What do friendships provide children with?

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Information about the world, themselves, others

Provide emotional support

Reduced chances of bullied

Control/interpret emotions

Increased experiences

Development from egocentrism

22
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What do children need to do to gain acceptance from peers?

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Conform to group norms

23
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Close friendships are influenced by?

A

characteristics of the friend (attractiveness, social status)
relationship with friend (commitment)

24
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Children rejected by peers are usually?

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Disruptive & aggressive & socially withdrawn

Excluded from activities
Difficult to be accepted

25
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Peer rejection in childhood is associated with?

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Social difficulties later in life

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What do Crick & Dodge information-processing approach model of social competence say children rejected by their peers will have problems with?

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They will have problems with:

  1. attending to social cues
  2. interpret cues (most common)
  3. clarifying desired outcome
  4. recall/regenerate strategies to respond
  5. deciding and enacting responses
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What can lead to improvements Crick & Dodge information-processing approach model of social competence?

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Social skills training

28
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What are friendships characterised by in adolescence?

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Shared attitudes, interests, intimacy

29
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What is Dunphys two types of adolescent groups?

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  1. Clique: small group of 3-9 members who are close (often broken into 1-2 smaller friends)
  2. Crowd: clique members who are also part of wider group
30
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Why are friendships important in adolescence?

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Provide source of social and emotional support

Help promote autonomy

Define their sense of self

Development and adult outcomes are influenced

31
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How do older adults define friendship? (5)

A 
behavioural aspects
cognitive processes
affective components
structural characteristics
proxy indicators
32
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What is personality?

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The characteristics and qualities of an individual

33
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What is personality development?

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The extent to which interests, values and preferences change throughout the lifespan

34
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What are the 3 factors of Freuds personality development

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ID
Ego
Superego

35
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What is the id?

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Present at birth, unconscious, tries to satisfy biological needs

36
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What is the ego?

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Rational, conscious and problem solves

37
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What is the superego?

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Morals and ethics

38
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What age (according to Freud) have all parts of personality developed?

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5

39
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What does Freud suggest is occurring throughout his psychosexual changes?

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Conflict between ID, ego and superego

If fixation occurs - can implicate personality development

40
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What was Erikson’s approach to personality development?

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Conflict to resolve at each year of life (the way you resolve determines your personality)

41
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What is the behaviourist approach to personality development?

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  • personality does not come from conflict

Personality is the sum of all learned associations

42
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What is the social cognitive approach?

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Learning new information comes from observation

Personality develops through a persons social world, including self-regulation

43
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What are Bandura’s 3 steps to personality development?

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  1. Self-observation: monitor our own behaviour
  2. Judgement: compare our behaviour with traditional or self-defined standards
  3. Self-response: reward or punishment, according to the judgement
44
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What is the trait approach to personality?

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Traits determine differences between individuals

45
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What are traits?

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Internal psychological dispositions that remain largely unchanged throughout the lifespan and across situations

46
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What are Eysenck’s gigantic three?

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Neuroticism, extraversion and psychoticism

Can be high or low in these traits

47
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What is the big 5 factor model of personality?

A 
5 traits - most comprehensive and data driven view
Neuroticism
Extraversion
Openness
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness

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