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Family Relations
Mid term
Term | Definition |
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4 styles of communication | Passive, Aggressive, Passive Aggressive, Assertive |
Intimacy Games | Partner conceals what they really want and attempts instead to manipulate their partner into doing something or giving them something they want |
Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love | Commitment, Passion, and Intimacy |
Three Attachment Styles | Secure. Avoidant, Anxious-preoccupied |
Attachment Style | Patterns of relating to others and experiencing intimacy |
Agape | love that is independent of one's feelings for another |
Eros | love for someone you sexually desire |
Phila | love between friends |
Storge | love between parents and children |
Propinquity | nearness in place- we tend to be similar and like people who live near us or who are close to us in some setting |
Heterogamy | relationship between two people two people who are dissimilar in social and demographic characteristics |
Homogamy | relationship between two people who are similar in social and demographic characteristics |
3 Major Dimensions of Relationship Dynamics | Cohesion, Flexibility, Communication |
Interdependence of Part | Everything that happens to any family member has an impact on everyone else in the fami |
Family System | Group in which family members are interconnected and operate together |
the average household size in the country has _________ | decreased |
The approval of, and proportion of, those engaging in premarital sex, _________ considerably during the 1960s and 1970s | increased |
Rate of non marital births has _______ since 1960 | increased |
Neolocal Society | Couples establish a separate, autonomous residence |
Patriarchal group | Males exercise the authority |
Matriarchal group | Females exercise the authority |
Pseudo-kin Group | Relationships resembling kinship ties develop among unrelated individuals |
Extended Family | group of three or more generations formed as an outgrowth of the parent-child family |
Nuclear Family | Smallest, most elementary kinship unit composed of romantic partners and children. |
Family of origin | Family into which you were born |
Family | group united by marriage, cohabitation, blood, and/or adoption in order to satisfy intimacy needs and/or bear and socialize children |
Failure of Integration | individual may not feel that he or she is a meaningful and significant part of any group |
Emotional Lonliness | fewer intimate relationships than you desire |
Social Lonliness | less interpersonal interaction than you desire |
Lonliness | feeling of being isolated from desired relationships |
Intimacy | relationship characterized by mutual commitment, affection and sharing |