Psych Of Adjustment Exam 4

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Three Factors in Relationship Development

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Proximity: neighbors, peers

Familiarity: how well do you understand them

Physical Attractiveness: to try and start relationships

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Mere Exposure Effect

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an increase in positive feelings towards a novel stimulus based on frequent exposure to it

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The Matching Hypothesis

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people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate towards eachotehr

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Parental Investment Theory

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maintains that a species' mating patterns depend on what each sex has to invest in the way of time, energy, and survival risk

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Minding

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an active and outgoing process of continuing mutual self disclosure and maintaining relationship enhancing beliefs and attributions about one's partner

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Interdependence or Social Exchange Theory

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postulates that interpersonal relationships are governed by perceptions of the rewards and costs exchanged in interactions

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Three Main Themes of a good friend

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Emotional Dimension

Communal Nature of Friendship

Sociability and Compatability

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Reproach

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the offended party acknowledges the problem and asks for an explanation

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Remedy

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taking responsibility and offering a justification, apology, concession

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Acknowledgment

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offended party acknowledges the remedy and the friendship progresses

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Sexual Orientation

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a person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same gender, the other gender, or either gender

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Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love

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posits that all love experiences are made up of three components, intimacy, passion, and commitment

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Intimacy

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refers to a warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship

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Passion

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the intense feelings experienced in love relationships, including sexual desire

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Commitment

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involves the decision and intentto maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise

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Hazan and Shaver: Romantic Love as Attachment

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adult romantic love and infant attachment share a number of features such as intense fascination with the other person, distress at separation, and efforts to stay close and spend time together

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Secure Adults

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55% trust others, easy to get close, comfortable with mutual dependence

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Avoidant Adults

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25% fear and feel uncomfortable about getting close to others, keep a distance

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Anxious-Ambivalent Adults

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20% obsessive and preoccupied with their relationships, more closeness needed, afraid they're going to be abandonded

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Attachment Anxiety

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reflects how much a person worries that partner worries that a partner will not be available when needed, stems from a persons doubts about his or her loveability

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Attachment Avoidance

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reflects the degree to which a person distrusts a partners goodwill and has tendencies to maintain emotional and behavioral distance from a partner

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Breakdown Processes

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one of both partners become dissatisfied

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Intrapsychic Processes

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ruminating about his or her dissatisfaction, the cost of the relationship, and attractive alternatives

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Dyadic Processes

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discussing and negotiating conflict

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Social Processes

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when friends and family are alerted to the problem

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Grave Dressing Processes

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each partner develops a separate account of the break u for his or her social network

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Resurrection Process

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preparing for new life

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Stimulus-Value-Role

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the idea that there's no interaction needed, all that's needed is physical attractiveness

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Intergenerational Divorce Cycle

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individuals who come from a divorced family are more likely to get divorced

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"Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse"

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Criticism: attacking partner's personality/character w/ the intention to make someone right and someone wrong "you always" "you never"

Contempt: attacking partner's sense of self with the intention to insult or psychologically abuse

Defensiveness: seeing self as the victim, warding off perceived attack

Stonewalling: withdrawing from the relationship as a way to avoid conflict, Partners are trying to be neutral. but causes more problems in the end

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Desensitization

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turning off alarm bells

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Gender Stereotypes

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widely shared beliefs about males and females abilities, personality traits, and social behavior

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Expressiveness

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orientation towards action and accomplishment

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Andocentrism

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the belief that the male is the norm

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Meta-Analysis

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combines the statistical results of many studies of the same question, yielding an estimate of the size and consistency of a variable's effects

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Gender Similarities Hypothesis

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men and women are similar on most psychological variables and that most of the time when researchers report a difference, its quite small

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Social Role Theory

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minor gender differences are exaggerated by the difficult social roles that males and females occupy

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Social Constructionism Theory

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asserts that individuals construct their own reality based on societal expectations, conditioning, and self-socialization

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Cerebral Hemispheres

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the right and left halves of the cerebrum, which is the convoluted outer layer of the brain

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Androgyny

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the coexistence of both masculine and feminine personality traits in a single person

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Gender Typed

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males who score high on masculinity nd low on femininity, and vice versa

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Cross gender typed

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the opposite of gendertyped

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Gender Role Transcendence

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proposed that to be fully human, people need to move beyond gender roles as a way of organizing their perceptions of themselves and others

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true/false: theres significant difference in overall intelligences

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false