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15 Cards in this Set
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The sixth of Erikson's eight stages of development. Adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound aloneness and isolation.
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intimacy versus isolation
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Erikson's seventh stage of development, in which adults seek to be productive through vocation, avocation, or child rearing. Without such productive work, adults stop developing and growing.
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generativity versus stagnation
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Refers to the idea that the stages of life, and the behaviors "appropriate" to them, are set by social standards rather than by biological maturation. For instance, "middle age" begins when the culture believes it does, rather than at a particular age in all cultures.
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social clock
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The various qualities, such as appearance and proximity, that are prerequisites for the formation of close friendships and intimate relationships.
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gateways to attraction
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A person's reasons for omitting certain people from consideration as close friends or partners. Exclusion criteria vary from one individual to another, but they are strong filters.
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exclusion criteria
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An arrangement in which a man and a woman live together in a committed sexual relationship but are not formally married.
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cohabitation
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Defined by developmentalists as marriage between individuals who tend to be similar with respect to such variables as attitudes, interests, goals, socioeconomic status, religion, ethnic background, and local origin.
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homogamy
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Defined by developmentalists as marriage between individuals who tend to be dissimilar with respect to such variables as attitudes, interests, goals, socioeconomic status, religion, ethnic background, and local origin.
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heterogamy
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The similarity of a couple's leisure interests and role preferences.
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social homogamy
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The view that social behavior is a process of exchange aimed at maximizing the benefits one receives and minimizing the costs one pays.
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social exchange theory
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A form of abuse in which one or both partners of a couple engage in outbursts of verbal and physical attack.
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common couple violence
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Spouse abuse in which, most often, the husband uses violent methods of accelerating intensity to isolate, degrade, and punish the wife.
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intimate terrorism
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An invisible barrier experienced by many women in male-dominated occupations - and by many minority workers in majority dominated occupations - that halts their advancement and undercuts their power at a level of the organization below that of top management.
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glass ceiling
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The stress of multiple obligations that may occur for an adult who is simultaneously a spouse, a parent, and an employee.
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role overload
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A situation in which achievement in one role that an adult plays - spouse, parent, or employee - reduces the impact of disappointments that may occur in other roles.
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role buffering
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