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media cultivation
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makes people think that what they see represents mainstream of what really occurs
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agenda setting
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media defines what is important by which stories they cover
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social learning
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media provides role models who we imitate
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ethnocentrism
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one's culture is superior to others
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sexual selection
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1. competition between same gender
2. preferential choice by members of one gender |
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evolutionary psychology
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study of psych mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection
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pyschoanalytic
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basic assumption that part of human personality is unconscious
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id
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basic part, present at birth, controls libido
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ego
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keeps id in line, realistic part
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superego
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the conscience
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id, ego, and superego all develop
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sequentially
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oedipus
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boy loves mother
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electra
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girl loves father
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problems with freud's theories
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1. cannot be scientifically evaluated
2. derived work from his patients 3. male centered |
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repression
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defensive act preventing certain info from becoming known
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social exchange theory
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people will choose actions that max rewards and min costs
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socialization
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learn how to be functioning members of society (from parents)
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we gain experience by
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observing peers
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agenda setting
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things getting publicity
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empirical data
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gathering info best way possible
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penis envy happens
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4 or 5
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public dissemination
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don't talk to people that disagree with you
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direct observation
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scientist directly observes the behavior being studied
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key to implicit measures
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reaction time
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anonymity
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participants will not suffer afterward for their participation in the study
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ethnography
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research method used to describe human society
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casual interference
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reaching the conclusion that one factor actually causes or influences the outcome
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incidence
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percentage of people giving a particular response
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cumulative incidence
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before a certain age
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case study
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small number of people or events
often repeated highly detailed |
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internal validity
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accuracy
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external validity
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how generalizable it is
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systematic observation
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observing and recording of info about naturally occurring behavior
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ahistorical or contemporary
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happening right now
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two types of observation
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participant or nonparticipant
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main problem of observation
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reliability of observer (their biases)
external validity |
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survey
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gathering info by systemically asking q's of a sample of people
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variable of interview
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training of interviewer
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problems of web based questionare
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lose control of setting
have to take people's word only 70% of world has internet |
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measure of incidence
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how many people in each group
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measure of frequency
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how often people do these things
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best representative survey in the US
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NHSLS
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problem with experiment
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external validity
want to arrive at reliable results |
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men are interrupted
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women
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hormones
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starts at conception, big impact on fetus
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hormones are important at
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puberty and midlife
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maturation
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genes>development>sexuality
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symbolic interaction theory
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meaning comes from interpretation
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clitoris
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highly sensitive, glans is in front of entrance
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mons
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fatty pad under pubic hair
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Bartholin glands
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2 tiny glands located on either side of the vaginal entrance
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perineum
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skin between vaginal entrance and anus
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introitus
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vaginal entrance
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urethra
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urine tube
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hymen
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"cherry" thin
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pubococygeus
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muscle around vaginal entrance
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uterus
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where fetus develops
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fallopian tubes
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extending from uterus to ovaries
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ovaries
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produce eggs and sex hormones
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corpora cavernosa
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spongy bodies running length of top of penis
pathway for seman and |
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corpus spongiosum
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running length of underside
pathway for semen an |
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supercision
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slit made the length of foreskin on top
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supincsion
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slit is made on lower side along entire length
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scrotum
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pouch of skin that contains the testes
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testes
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glands that manufacture sperm and sex hormones
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seminiferous tubules
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manufacture sperm
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interstital cells
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manufacture testosterone
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epididymis
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highly coiled tube located on the edge of the testis, where sperm mature
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vas defernes
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tube through which sperm pass on way from testes and epididymis, out of scrotum and to urethra
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seminal vesicles
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saclike structures that lie above the prostate and produce 60% of seminal fluid
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prostate
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gland located below bladder that secretes some of the fluid in the semen
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cowper's glands
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secrete clear alkaline fluid into male's urethra
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testosterone
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maintains sex characteristics
maintains genitals and sperm producing capabilities stimulates growth of bone and muscle |
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FSH
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controls sperm production
stimulates follicle development |
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LH
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controls testosterone production
regulates estrogen secretion ovum development |
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GnRH
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regulates levels of LH
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HPG axis
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negative feedback loop that regulates sex hormone production
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inhibin
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regulates FSH levels
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analogous
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organs in male and female that have similar functions
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CAH
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girl with male appearing genitals
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AIS
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boy without boy parts
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cultural values about PMS
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back in day>negative beliefs>made menstrual taboos
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one menstrual taboo
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sex while on period
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medicalization
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turning process into illness (ex. PMS)
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5 steps of medicalization
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get word out
name symptoms medical treatment publicize new biological research publicize treatment agree it is a health problem institutionalize within medicine |
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vasocongestion
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accumulation of blood in the blood vessels of a region of body
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myotonia
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muscle contraction
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excitement
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erection in males
lubrication in females |
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triphasic model
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vasocongestion, muscular contractions, sexual desire
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dual control model
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controlled both by sexual excitation and by sexual inhibition
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organizing effects of hormones
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early in development resulting in permanent change in brain or reproductive system
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activating behaviors
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activation of behaviors such as sexual and agressive behaviors
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the arousal process
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stimulus
recognition reaction |
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2 types of stimuli
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sensual and erotic
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pheromones
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biochemicals capable of producing arousal by sense of smell
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sensual stimulus via
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neurological or physiological
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erotic stimuli
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produces arousal through learning
ex. body build, female breasts, partial display |
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physiological arousal (2)
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vasocongestion
myotonia |
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people who do not recognize internal cues rely on
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environmental cues
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attribution
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process of developing an explanation for something
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schacter two factor theory
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arousal requires arousal but also info cue that helps you attribute it to a cause
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sexual scripts
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gives defintion of what's happening
identifies actors provides behaviorial guidelines |
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proscriptions
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things that are not allowed
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prescriptions
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things that must occur
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law of attraction
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greater the proportion of similar attitudes=more likely they'll get along
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self disclosure (social penetration theory)
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people are like onions, allowing people to penetrate deeper into our layers
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