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Dating
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A form of courtship involving a series of appointed meetings for social interaction and activities during which an exclusive relationship may evolve between two people. Also called individual choice courtship
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Socialization
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A lifelong process whereby one learns about their culture, language, values, beliefs, and behavioral expectations.
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Mating Gradient
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The tendency of women to marry men who are better educated or more successful than they are.
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Vitalized couple
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A type of premarital and married couple characterized by many couple strengths, high marital satisfaction, and a low risk of divorce.
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Social Competence or Social Obligation
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The attainment of "behavior" recognized as needed/required to satisfy social expectations.
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Rapport
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The process of communication in which two people develop understanding and sense of closeness.
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Harmonious couple
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A type of premarital and married couple characterized by many couple strengths, relationship satisfaction, and a low risk of divorce.
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Homogamy
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Individuals tend to select other like (similar to) themselves.
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Heterogamy
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Dating individuals who are different from you.
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Mutual Dependency
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A relationship in which each person wants and needs the other person.
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Traditional Couple
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A type of premarital and married couple characterized by some external strengths (such as religion and friends) but fewer internal strengths (such as communication and conflict resolution skills).
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Permissiveness
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The extent to which couples are physically intimate before marriage.
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Self-confirmation
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End result of self-development, socialization, and social competence processes. (Self confirmation results in security and stability or insecurity and rebellion.)
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Conflicted Couple
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A type of premarital and married couple characterized by few relationship strengths, low levels of relationship satisfaction and a high risk of divorce.
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Intimacy need fulfillment
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The satisfaction one receives from having personal needs fulfilled.
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Process
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Movement’ from one point to the next…
o Movement in an orderly fashion… o A ‘series of actions’ that leads to a particular ending, result, decision, or conclusion |
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Rite of Passage
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An event that marks a change in one's personal life from one stage to another.
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Self-Development
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The process of "internalizing" one's own experiences whether it be individual or experiences with other people. Self-development undergoes a constant process of comparison, assessment, and reinterpretation as one's status and role changes.
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Devitalized Couple
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The unhappiest type of married couple; characterized by few couple strengths and the highest risk of divorce.
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Sex-Ratio
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The relationship between the number of men and the number of women of a given age.
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Complementary
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People are attracted to someone whose personality complements their own.
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Self-revelation
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The disclosing of personal information about oneself.
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Double Standard
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Different standards of appropriate sexual and social behavior for the two sexes; the belief that premarital sex is more acceptable for males than for females.
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Endogamy
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The practice of choosing a mate from within one's own ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, or general age group.
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Exogamy
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The practice of choosing a mate from outside one's own group.
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Manifest
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where the functions/purposes are visible, recognized and/or intended.
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Latent
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where the functions/purposes are unintended or not immediately visible, known, and/or recognizable.
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