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How Does Early Parent-Child Interactions Impact Future Relationships?
What Leads to Attraction?
What Factors Influence & Define Romance Love?
How are Relationships Maintained?
What Role does Conflict Play in Relationships
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What is "attachment style"?
Degree of security experienced in interpersonal relationships.
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What is "proximity"?
A physical closeness between two individuals.
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What is "passionate love"?
State of intense longing for union with another.
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What is "social exchange theory"?
A model of human behaviours in which people make decisions based on maximizing benefits and minimizing cost in relationships.
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Do all relationships involve some conflict?
Yes, simply cannot be avoided.
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What is "secure attachment style"?
Most successful of attachment style characterized by high self-esteem and high interpersonal trust.
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Is physical attraction important?
Yes, high degree on impact on interactions.
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What is "compassionate love"?
Attraction we feel for people with which our lives are deeply intertwined.
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What is "equality theory"?
Relationships are most satisfying when a relation between benefits and contributions are similar for both.
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What is "negative attributional style"?
A style that occurs when a person explains his or her partners behaviours in negative ways.
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Can attachment style change?
Yes, not necessarily set in stone.
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What is "proportion of similarity"?
An equation that divides number of topics on which two people express similar views by total number of topics which leads to prediction of attraction.
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What is "Robert Sternberg's theory"?
The theory of love.
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What is "investment" within a relationship?
Resources that have been devoted to a relationship that cannot be retrieved.
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What are four types of conflict within relationships?
1) Criticizing partner 2) Being defensive towards partner 3) Contempt towards partner 4) Emotional withdrawal from partner
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What is "preoccupied attachment style"?
Conflicted, insecure attachment style characterized by low self-esteem and high interpersonal trust.
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What is "repulsion hypothesis"?
A similarity that doesn't actually have any effect on attraction.
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What is the triangular theory of love's three components?
Intimacy, passion, and commitment.
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What is "exchange relationship"?
A relationship when partners expect strict reciprocity.
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What is "green eyed monster"?
Jealousy.
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What is "dismissive attachment style"?
Conflicted, insecure attachment style characterized by high self-esteem and low interpersonal trust.
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What is "reciprocity"?
An exchange on what we receive for what we get, which can include liking those who like us back.
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How many distinct types of love can be experienced according to Robert Sternberg's theory?
Eight
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What is "communal relationship"?
A relationship which partners expect mutual responsiveness to one anothers needs.
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Are there benefits in the dissolution of relationships?
Yes, negative at first but will result in a positive outcome.