Intimate Relationships Relationships

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6 Ways an intimate relationship is different from a casual friendship

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Knowledge, Caring, Interdependence, Mutuality, Trust, Commitment

Front 2

Intimate partners have confidential ______ about each other (can be used against you)

Back 2

Knowledge

Front 3

We _____ more about partner than a casual friend and expect reciprocation of that _____

Back 3

Care

Front 4

Extent to which we need and depend on/influence each other

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Interdependence

Front 5

Partners recognize the overlap between their lives (Thinking of yourselves as "us" instead of "me")

Back 5

Mutuality

Front 6

Without this, there is no relationship

Intimate partners expect that they will treat each other fairly/honorably

Back 6

Trust

Front 7

Intimate partners expect relationship to last indefinitely

Back 7

Commitment

Front 8

It doesn't matter who our partner is, as long as we get stable __________ and _________, our needs can be satisfied

Back 8

Affection and Acceptance

Front 9

People who have lost/are without close ties to other people suffer in what ways?

Back 9

Poor Health, Higher Blood Pressure, Weaker Immune Systems, and Die Younger

Front 10

Typical Age of Marriage in 1960

Back 10

Male: 22

Female: 20

Front 11

Typical Age of Marriage Today

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Male: 27

Female: 25

Front 12

What percent of children were born into families with two parents in the 1960s?

Back 12

95%

Front 13

Today: What percent of children live with only one parent

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28%

Front 14

What percent of children will live in a single parent home at some point of their childhood?

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60%

Front 15

1960s: What percent of mothers stayed home all day with children until they went to school?

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75%

Front 16

Today: What percent of mothers stay home with children?

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Less than 40%

Front 17

Today: What percent of unmarried couples live together?

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32%

Front 18

Currently in the US, we expect more pleasures and delights and less hassles and sacrifices from our relationships, thus _________

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fewer people marry and fewer marriages last

Front 19

# of Men for every 100 women in a population

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Sex Ratio

Front 20

More men than women in a population yields

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Conservativism

Front 21

More women than men in a population yeilds

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Higher Divorce Rate

Front 22

Biological or physical differences between men and women

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Sex Differences

Front 23

Social and Psychological differences between men and women created by our culture and upbringing

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Gender Differences

Front 24

Men are expected to possess which type of traits?

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Instrumental Traits (Task-oriented)

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Assertive, Self-reliant, decisive, competent, competitive

Back 25

Instrumental Traits

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Women are expected to possess which type of traits?

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Expressive Traits (Social and Emotional)

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Warm, Sensitive, Emotional, Expressive, Kind

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Expressive Traits

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People that possess both instrumental and expressive traits

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Androgynous

Front 29

Nurturing and loving caregiver, when child needs something, someone is there

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Secure Attachment Style

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Caregivers were warm and interested, but distracted and unavailable

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Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment Style

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Care is provided reluctantly by rejecting or hostile adults, leading to withdrawal from others

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Avoidant Attachment Style

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Encompasses all the beliefs, feelings, and evaluations that we have about ourselves

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Self-concept

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The desire to approach somebody

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Interpersonal Attraction

Front 34

All the positive things that we obtain from being with somebody (attention, interest, approval)

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Direct Rewards

Front 35

Awards we get for being associated with that person (new friends, public approval, popularity, new family)

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Indirect Rewards

Front 36

Attraction involves the ________ characteristics of the person we are attracted to (our personality effects how we see the other person)

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Perceived

Front 37

Universally attractive traits for women

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large eyes, small nose, small chin, full lips, prominent cheek bones, narrow cheeks, broad smile, normal weight, larger breasts

Front 38

Hip/Waist Ration for Women

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(0.7) - Waist = 30% smaller than hips

(24" waist, 34" hips)

Front 39

Universally attractive male traits

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strong jaw, broad forehead, look strong and dominant

Front 40

Hip/Waist Ratio for men

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(0.9) Waist = 10% smaller than hips

Front 41

What percent of cosmetic surgery in the US is performed on women?

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91%

Front 42

people's tendency to regulate their social behavior to meet the demands of different social situations

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self-monitoring

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change their behavior to make a good impression

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high self-monitors

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strive to be true to their private beliefs and desires (don't care about making impressions)

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low self-monitors

Front 45

interested in good-looking partners, will hire good-looking and incompetent women over competent but plain women

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male high self-monitors

Front 46

interested in personality, employ talent over good-looks

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male low self-monitors

Front 47

objects perceived differently depending on the other objects they are compared to

Back 47

contrast effect

Front 48

occur when the quality that initially attracts us becomes one of the most obnoxious and irritating things about them

Back 48

fatal attractions

Front 49

You cannot have too much in common, generally opposites don't stay together long

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