Mco 473 Exam 1

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The bottom-line underlying problem regarding achieving genuine satisfaction and happiness in real-life romantic relationship

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Higher usage of certain mass media is related to unrealistic expectations about courtship

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Rx #1

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Consider countless candidates

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Rx #2

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Consult your calendar and count carefully

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Rx #3

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Communicate Courageously

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Rx #4

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Concentrate on commitment and constancy

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Rx #5

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Cherish completeness in companions

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Rx #6

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Create Coequally; Cooperate

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Rx #7

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Stop correcting and controlling

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Rx #8

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Constant conflicts creates chaos; Courtesy counts

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Rx #9

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Crave common core values

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Rx #10

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Cultivate your own completeness

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Rx #11

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Deconstruct celebrities

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Rx #12

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Calculate the very real consequence of UNREAL media

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Myth #1

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Predestined Love/ Soulmate

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Myth #2

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Love at first sight

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Myth #3

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Partner should know what I'm thinking without saying it

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Myth #4

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Love = perfect sex

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Myth #5

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To keep a man, a woman must look like a model or centerfold

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Myth #6

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Man has to be stronger, taller and more successful

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Myth #7

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A woman can turn a beast into a prince

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Myth #8

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Fighting means you care

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Myth #9

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All you need is love, don't need same values

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Myth #10

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The right mate completes you, filling your needs and making your dreams come true

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Myth #11

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Actors/Actresses have the romantic life like in movies

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Myth #12

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Media doesn't affect you

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The three educational domains of this course and textbook

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-Cognitive (thoughts and perused)
-Effective (Emotions or values)
-Behavioral (actions)

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Methodological perspective of the textbook

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Multidisciplinary, embracing a variety of traditions along the quantitative-qualitative continuum

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Dr. Galician's archetypal heroine

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Alice in Wonderland
- Alice's ability to rescue herself comes from her ability to see past the illusions that surround her

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Romance

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Subcategory of love, a love affair, mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal

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The three components in Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love

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- Intimacy
- Passion
- Commitment

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The eight types of love in Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love

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- Empty Love
- Romantic Love
- Fatuous Love
- Companionate Love
- Consummate love
- Non Love
- Liking
- Infatuated Love

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Lee's idea of "Colors of Love"

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An analogy to explain the different variations in love colors: Eros, storge, ludus, mania, pragma, and agape

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Sex

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Biological

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Gender

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Behavioral

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Bem Sex-Role Inventory

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A quiz given in order to tell you what type of gender characteristics you have: female or male and androgynous

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Contradictory concept of Romance

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Romantic love is usually conceived as involving both possessive and altruistic motives. Romance is inherently a myth, it's very definition is not based on reality

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Elements of Lasswell's Model of Mass communication

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- Who is the sender
- What is the message
- Whom is the receiver or audience
- through which channel is the vehicle or medium, with what effect

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Primary purposes of mass communication

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- To inform or educate
- to entertain
- to persuade

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Rational

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Having or exercising the ability to reason; of sound mind; sane; consistent with or based on reason; logical

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Albert Ellis

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-Former Freudian psychoanalyst.
-Created rational-emotive behavioral therapy

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Portrayal

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A representation in words or pictures

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Model

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A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and can be used for further study of its characteristics

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Analysis

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Separating an intellectual or substantial whole into its constituent parts for individual study

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Criticism

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The art, skill, or profession of making discriminating judgments and evaluations, especially of literary or other artistic works

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Three extra steps we will take

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- Design
- Debriefing
- Dissemination

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Myths

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Stories that bring ancient past to the postmodern present through the universal appeal of their morals, which have socialized us across the centuries

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Plato's purpose of using myths

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He would use them as allegories in order to make a point

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Cupid's Arrow

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- Love at first sight
- Greek god of love - Eros
- Kama - Indian god of desire

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Ishtar

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- Goddess of sex
- Archer with arrow of desire
- Froze enemies' blood with her songs of lust
- eternally promiscuous
-bathed in a sacred lake to restore her virginity.
- Myth #4

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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One of the world's oldest narratives

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Compulsory Heterosexuality

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- Adrienne Rich
- Women have been conditioned to believe that they are incomplete and abnormal without a man

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Romeo and Juliet Effect

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Intensification of passion due to obstruction, created by modern psychology
- Fisher

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Heroes (Greek Mythology)

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Signified the offspring of one mortal and one immortal parent

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Heroic Love Model

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Pursuit and capture of a woman by the man

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Foundational concepts of Courtly Love or Chivalry

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- Idealized
- Spiritualized
- Non-Marital
- Non-intimate
- intense
- emotional
- passionate (in the religious sense)
- Painful (because unconsummated)

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How women were regarded in the model of Chivalry

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Women were venerated as an object of worship

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Freud

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- Viewed love as sublimated sexuality

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Anima

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The feminine completion of a male's personality

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Animus

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The masculine completion of a female's personality

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Stereotypes

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Positive or negative characterizations of a group of people based on expectations or assumptions about the group

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Lippmann's 4 Characteristics

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- Simple
- Acquired secondhand
- Erroneous
- resistant to change

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Countertypes

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Positive stereotypes, evolves as an attempt to replace or counter a previously applied negative stereotype

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What are the three fundamental contexts of communication

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- Personal
- Public
- mediated

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Number of AXIOMS of visual communication

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7

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AXIOM #1

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It is not possible to perceive all data existing in a visual event

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AXIOM #2

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We learn how to make meaning from our senses

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AXIOM #3

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Vision, like our other senses, is subject to the same errors of perception

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AXIOM #4

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Mediated images in our society maintain and reinforce many cultural stereotypes

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AXIOM #5

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In any reception of visual stimuli, particularly mediated images, what is not seen is as important as what is seen

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AXIOM #6

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In mediated visual images, someone has manipulated the images to some degree to influence what is perceived

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AXIOM #7

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Since visual perception is a learned process, it is a skill that can be improved

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Seven Step Dis-illusioning Directions

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1. Detecting (Finding/Identifying)
2. Description (Illustration)
3. Deconstruction (Analyzing)
4. Diagnosis (Evaluation)
5. Design (Reconstructing)
6. Debriefing (Reconsidering)
7. Dissemination (Publishing)

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Three way to read/interpret a mass media text

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- Preferred
- Negotiated
- Oppositional

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NAMLE (AMLA)

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A non-profit membership organization that supports media literacy education

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Center for Media Literacy

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An educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally and internationally

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4 steps of Freire's Action Learning

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- Awareness
- Analysis
- Reflection
- Action

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Vision of Media Literacy

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To put all individuals, ultimately, in charge of their own learning, empowering them to take an active rather than a passive role in acquiring new knowledge and skill

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Media Literacy Mantra

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"I don't know, how could we find out?"
- Promotes self-discovery and self-prompted education

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Elizabeth Thoman

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A leader in the media education movement in the U.S. Founder of Media & Values magazine, creator of the first generation of curriculum resources for teaching about media.

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Media Literacy

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A coalition of concerned individuals and organizations, including parents, educators, faith based groups, health care providers, citizens and consumer groups seeking a more enlightened way of understanding our media environment

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Ozzie and Harriet mythology

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Our mass media society might lead to overly high expectations and longings for a close relationship in which one person will satisfy every need

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Model of Persuasion

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Model of how attitudes are formed and changed
- Through Central or Peripheral routes

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Illusion of person invulnerability

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The belief that media influences other people such as he/she but never the individual directly

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Education

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Enlightening someone about a subject and/or the experiences associated with it.

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Enculturation

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Immersing someone in the experiences of that same subject

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Dr. Robert Sternerg's Quote

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"It is a difficult task to find anything in the mass media today that can teach us about love"

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Subtext

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an implicit meaning or theme

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Speaker

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Whose point of view it is

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Sponsor

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The specific producer or creator of the message

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Status Quo

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Dominant cultural norms

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Keep It Simple Student

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K.I.S.S.

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Goal of most mass media today

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Sell products and/or ideas

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Appeal of the "Iconic Couples: Mass-Mediated Love Stories"

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- They give you hope for our own romantic relationship
- In the movies, sex is perfect
- Everything is easy, once you find your soul mate
- Poor Models

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Key factors in the appeal of mediated myths

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- Myths are inclusive
- Importance of conflict and "the contest" in the stories
- Dealing with idealized human forms in idealized world

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Mass Media Text

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Any work that can be read by the masses

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When the medium became mass

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19th-20th century

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Schwartz's Peer Marriage Model

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Benefits: Intense companionship, deep knowledge of the other's personality, inclination to negotiate and converse more, no visible yearning for attention and affection
Drawbacks: Close friendship can be inhibiting to passionate sexuality

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Psychological Androgyny

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It is a less limiting self-concept that incorporates both masculine and feminine attributes and behaviors
- Developed by Sandra Bem

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Gottman's Positive Interactions

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- Communication
- Negotiation
- Conflict Resolution

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Hendrix's Imago Relationship Theory

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Deep constructive communication
Conflict Resolution
Deepening the friendship of a couple

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Lazarus' Major Marital Myths

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- Romantic love makes a good marriage
- Good spouses should make their partners happy
- Marrying can fulfill your dreams
- True lovers automatically know each other's thoughts and feelings
- Competition between spouses adds sparkle to a marriage
- You should make your spouse over into a better person
- Opposites attract and compliment each other

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Misattribution of arousal

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The arousal someone attributes to the feeling of love might actually be physical arousal

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Limerence

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- 1977 by psychologist Dorothy Tennov
- Describes an emotionally disabling attachment filled with anxiety, fantasy, over-dependence.
- Lowered expectations, but only slightly and only among women

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Five scales of Eidelson & Epstein's Relationship Beliefs Inventory

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- Disagreement is destructive
- Mind reading is expected
- Partners cannot change
- Sexual Perfectionism
- The sexes are different
- RBI

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Katz & Liu's False Love Syndrome

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Finding the one person who is right for you, being intensely attracted to your partner, feeling excited whenever you are with your partner, rarely fighting, rarely wanting to be apart from your partner, having great sex, never being sexually attracted to anyone else, enjoying constant romance, never needing anyone but your partner in your life, complete fulfillment

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Rutgers University National Marriage Project

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94% of young adults ages 20-29 had a romantic, unrealistic view of marriage that includes staying single till they find a "perfect" mate

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Dis-illusion

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- Means both to free and to deprive of illusion. It can be either a good thing (Freedom) or a bad thing (deprivation), and to disenchant