Chapter 6 - Social Relationships (New)
Chapter 6 - Social Relationships (New)
Chapter 6 - Social Relationships (New)
PREPARED BY: FAZLI HISHAM BIN FAUZI NOR ASIAH BINTI MOHAMAD 168718 161884
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Attachment Theory
Attachment : strong effectional bond formed by an infant to her primary caregiver and inferred by behavior.
Attachment
Internal working model or attachment orientation.
Attachment relationship which are a set of beliefs and assumptions about the nature of all relationship Attachment behaviors ways an underlying is expressed Attachment orientation patterns of expectation, needs and emotion one exhibit in interpersonal relationship Caregiving orientation system that is activated in adults when they interact with infants and young children
Convoys differ by individuals age, race, and SES and may act as stress buffers. Other social networks is on health.
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology social relationships play important role in human evolution.
Relationships provide protection from predation, access to food and insulation from cold.
Human species to day have manifested in need to belong. biological system
Intimate Partnerships
Married couples. Cohabitating couples with heterosexual and same-sex partners.
Mate Selection
Majority of people select their own mates and do it on the combination of subjective feelings include:-
Euphoria, intense focused attention on a preferred individual, obsessive thinking, emotional dependency
Mate Selection
Helen L. Fisher (2000;2004) suggest that mate selection depend on: Lust Attraction Attachment
Lust
Lust system causes men and women to experience sexual desire (libido) and seek out sexual opportunities.
Freud believed that libido was the foundation of all intimate relationships.
Lust system powered by androgens in both genders and sometimes viewed as accelerator of romantic love.
Attraction
Attraction system directs men and women to attend specific potential mates and to desire an emotional relationship with them.
The experience of attraction is also known as romantic love, obsessive love, passion, passionate love and limerance. The attraction system is associated with increased levels of dopamine and norepinephrine and decreased levels of serotonin, all neurotransmitters in the brain.
Filter Theory
Begin with large pool and gradually filter out those who do not fit specifications.
Describes mate selection as a series of steps that rule out more and more potential partners until only one is left
Exchange Theory
Each person has some assets to offer a prospective partner.
Types Of Marriage
Validating marriage Volatile marriage Avoidance marriage
Volatile marriage
Avoidance marriage
Cohabitation
Is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotionally or sexually intimate in a long-term or permanent basis.
Factors Of Cohabitation
Parents attitude Lack of religious education Economic The influences of foreign cultures
Disadvantages
It is that you and your partner cannot have or make your own child not unless you and your partner adopted one.
Can have different kinds of viruses or get sick that can affect your reproductive organs when you have sexual intercourse to your partner.
What is Family?
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Normative solidarity
~ the perception and enactment of norms of family solidarity.
Relinquished parental attachment central in individuation-achieving process of late adolescence and early adulthood
Problem include childrens divorce, financial crises and drug or alcohol problem.
Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship
Age makes a difference and relationships change as ages of both parties increase.
Racial/ethnic differences. Relationships provide important emotional meaning. Many adult grandchild view their relationship with grandparents as a safety net.
Social groups with more grandparents had more help in birthing, caregiving, and knowledge transmission.
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Time Resources Type Of Investment Emotional Closeness
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Friendships in Adulthood
Friendship voluntary social relationship carried out within a social context.
Friends appear to become less central with age. Womens friendships are based on talk; mens friendships are marked by doing.
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