Family Life & Interpersonal Relationships Flashcards
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Instrumental and Terminal Values
Instrumental: a way of thinking that an indiv. values BEING
Terminal: goals/ideals a person works towards ATTAINING
Emotional intelligence
self awareness altruism motivation empathy ability to love/be loved
Self esteem
Largely determined in childhood
Can boost by positive talk and positive thinking
Refusal skills
Learning how to say “NO”
“I” Message
Acknowledging that individual controls own response
Gender diff
Women: taste, smell, hearing
Men: vision
Women: fine motor skills
Men: brute strength
Nature/nurture both create diff
Chemical love
Amphetamine like responses come from:
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Phenylethylamine
Anthropological love
Propagation oriented. Romance wanes after 4 years, enough time to have and raise an infant.
Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor stage, birth-2. Develops sense organs, learns objects exist out of sight
- Preoperational stage, 2-7. Sympathy develops. Ability to imagine mental lives of others.
- Concrete Operational stage, 7-12. Develops cognitive structures, including rule of conservation (volume does not change with shape)
- Formal Operational stage, 12-onward. Abstract thought, theory rather than empirical knowledge, is developed.
Infancy stage
Birth - 2
social attachment
basic motor skills
notions of cause/effect
Toddler stage
2-4
Language devel
fantasy and play
improvement in self control
Middle school stage
5-12 cooperation morals gender roles basic skills Awareness of place in world
Adolescence
12-22
Sexuality
Peers over family
Independence and personal identity
Young adult
23-30
Marriage, perhaps Family, and Career establishment
Middle adult
31-50
Household maintenance
Child rearing
Career Advancement
Later adult
51-death
Accept events of life
Develop healthy perspective on life and death
Redirect personal energy to new roles and responsibilities
Marriage stats
90%+ of Americans will marry
Most fights are about money or sex
Traditional Marriage
Conform to prescribed marial roles
Companion-oriented marriage
Partnership and rewards of love more important than marital roles
Heath and marriage
Married people: more money, sex, better health
Men live longer, lower rates of alcohol abuse and depression
Women’s wages go down
Divorce
US has highest rate of divorce
Divorced people more likely to marry again than singles
Effect on children is enormous, but does not affect academics.
After birth of child, marital satisfaction declines
Divorce rate rises after children
Puberty
Pituitary gland releases gonadotropins, which stimulate production of sex hormones, estrogen and testosterone
Hormone system
Endocrine system. Hypothalamus sends message to pituitary, which turns off and on glands that produce hormones. Hormones carried to target via bloodstream
Prostate cancer
More likely in African Americans