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79 Cards in this Set
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What are the ages of early adulthood?
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Ages 20-40
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What are characteristic aspects of early adulthood?
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Intimate relationships, marriage, childbearing, child rearing, and vocational establishment.
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Erickson stage is associated with Early Adulthood that is characterized by an individual facing the task of forming intimate relationships with others; Finding oneself while losing oneself in another person vs. not forming relationships and the inability to develop meaningful relationships with others.
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Intimacy vs. Isolation
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Childhood Attachment in which someone is confident, comfortable, spontaneous, and trusting.
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Secure attachment
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Childhood attachment that is more distant, less intense emotional involvement, and one night stands.
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Insecure-avoidant attachment
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Childhood attachment with ambivalent possessive and rejecting at times; Jealous
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Insecure resistant
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Adult attachment is categorized as...
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secure, avoidant, or anxious
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Adult attachment in which adults have positive views or relationships.
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Secure attachment style
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Adult attachment in which adults are hesitant to get involved in romantic relationships.
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Avoidant Attachment style
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Adult attachment in which adults who demand closeness are less trusting and more emotional, jealous, and possessive.
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Anxious Attachment style
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A form of close relationship that involves enjoyment, acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, confiding, understanding, and spontaneity.
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Friendship
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Have more close friends & engage in more self disclosure and exchange of mutual support (Share more); More likely to listen in length to what a friend has to say and be sympathetic; "Talking companions"; Share many aspects of their experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
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Friendships between women
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Don't share; More likely to engage in activities; Often involves keeping one's distance while sharing useful info; Less likely to talk about their weaknesses and want practical solutions to their problems rather than sympathy; Competitive.
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Friendships between men
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More common among adults; Can provide opportunities and problems; Problems due to different expectations and unclear sexual boundaries.
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Friendships between women and men
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What are variables of intimate relationships?
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Proximity, familiarity and similarity, Matching hypothesis
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The odds are that individuals will date and marry someone that lives within a 5-10 mile radius.
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Proximity
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A necessary condition for a close relationship to develop; For the most part, friends and lovers are people who have been around each other for a long time; They may have grown up together, gone to high school or college together, worked together, or gone to the same social events.
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Familiarity
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The more deeply you know people more you tend to dislike them
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Familiarity breeds contempt
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Matters because people tend to shy away from the unknown; Birds of a feather flock together; We associate with people that are like us.
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Similarity
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States that although we prefer a more attractive person in the abstract, in the real world we end up choosing someone who is close to our own level.
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Matching hypothesis
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An explanation of why individuals are attracted to people who are similar to them; Our own attitudes and behavior are supported when someone else's attitudes and behavior are similar to your own.
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Consensual validation
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What are the 7 C's of an intimate relationship?
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Compatibility, Communication, Consensual validation, Caring, Commitment, Conflict resolution, and Coitus Copulation
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What percentage of marriages are interracial?
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6%
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Similarity of values and interests; Can increase intimacy; Involves age, religion, socio-economic status, ethnicity, etc.
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Compatibility
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What do women look for in men?
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Financial stability, intellect, character/personality, and a man that is older or the same age.
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What do men look for in women?
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Physical appearance, personality, domestic skills and a woman that is the same age or younger than the man.
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An explanation of why individuals are attracted to people who are similar to them; Own attitudes and behavior are supported and validated when someone else's attitudes and behavior are similar to our own.
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Consensual validation
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Being able to relate to each other; Express emotion.
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Communication
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Sex
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Copulation/Coitus
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Distinguishes 2 ways of communicating for women and men.
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Deborah Tannen
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Language of conversation; A way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships; Women enjoy this more
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Rapport talk
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Talk that is designed to give information, includes public speaking; Men feel more comfortable doing this.
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Report talk
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What is talk time on the phone for females? Males?
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7.2 minutes vs. 4.6 minutes
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Refers to a vast and complex territory of human behavior.
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Love
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What are the 4 faces of love?
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Eros, Phileo, Storge, Agape
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Sensual/sexual kind of love; Similar to romantic love.
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Eros
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Brotherly love; Love of friends
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Phileo
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Family love/ love for family members such as mom or grandmother
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Storge
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Godly love; Unconditional and sacrificial love; Biblical
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Agape
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What are 3 types of love?
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Romantic love, affectionate love, and consummate love
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Passionate love that have strong components of sexuality and infatuation, and it often predominates in the early part of a love relationship; Includes complex intermingling of different emotions--Ex. fear, anger, sexual desire, joy, and jealousy.
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Romantic love
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Believed it is romantic love we mean when we say that we are "in love"; Believed that sexual desire is the most important ingredient of romantic love.
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Ellen Berschied
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Companionate love; The type of love that occurs when someone desires to have the other person near and have a deep, caring affection for the person.
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Affectionate love
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Includes passion intimacy and commitment; Strongest, fullest type of love that develops over time.
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Consummate love
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What does Sternberg's Triangle of Love include?
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Passion, intimacy, and commitment
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Physical and sexual attraction to another.
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Passion
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Emotional feelings of warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship.
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Intimacy
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Our cognitive appraisal of the relationship and out intent to maintain the relationship even in the face of problems.
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Commitment
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Theory states that the ideal form of love involves all 3 dimensions.
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Sternberg's theory
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Only includes passion
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Infatuation
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Only includes intimacy and commitment
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Affectionate love
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Only includes passion and commitment
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Fatous
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Includes all 3 components: Passion, intimacy, and commitment
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Consummate love
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More adults stay single...
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longer.
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What are 3 problems with not being married?
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Loneliness, forming intimate relationships with adults, and finding a niche when society is marriage-oriented.
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Kids who come back home
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Boomerang kids
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What percentage of boomerang kids come back home? Why?
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50%; Because of money, relationship end, etc.
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What percentage of women marry in their life?
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90%
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What percentage of marriages end in divorce? 2nd marriages end in divorce
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50%; 60%
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Marriages during this time are more likely to end.
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Adolescence
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What is the average duration of a marriage in the U.S.?
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9 years
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Increases in divorce are correlated with...
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youthful marriage, low educational level, low income, not having a religious affiliation, divorced parents, and having a baby before marriage.
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What characteristics also increase the likelihood of divorce?
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Alcoholism, psychological problems, domestic violence, infidelity, and inadequate of division of household labor.
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Divorces adults remarry within ___ years after their divorce.
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3
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Men remarry ______ than women.
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sooner
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Who is more likely to remarry?
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Men with higher income
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Who does remarriage occur sooner for?
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Partners who initiate divorce
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Adults who get remarried have a lower level of...........
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Mental health (Depression)
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A factor that fosters marriage
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Maturity
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What is the average age for men to marry? Women?
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Men--27; Women--25 1/2
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It is important for married couples to know each other's...
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love language.
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In order for marriage to succeed there must be:
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Maturity, homogamy, realistic expectations and contributions, and conflict resolution.
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Women are _________ in marriage: Need time, attention, and communication.
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lonelier
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_______ are lonelier outside of relationships if were once married.
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Men
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Refers to living together in a sexual relationship without being married; It is either a preparation for marriage or an alternative to marriage.
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Cohabitation
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What percentage of people cohabitate?
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11% in 1970 to 60% at the beginning of the 21st century
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Divorce rate _________ for those who cohabitate prior to marriage.
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increase
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What is missing when couples cohabitate?
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Deep commitment
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Those who cohabitate are...
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less conventional, more instances of parental divorce, more likely to engage in sex earlier with more sexual partners, more reported negative relationship with parents, and less happily married, and more frequently divorced.
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