Ales

Chapter 5 and 6

Close relationship is personal relationship that we share with individuals that have a particularity high level of intimacy and self –perceive meaning.

Relationship category

* Romantic relationship

* Friendship

* Family relationship

Interdependence is a sense of interconnectedness between two individuals such that each person has a meaningful influence on the other.

Family has change from 1970 to 2003 statistics show this change

In 1970 40.3% of families consisted in married couple and children in 2003 just 23.3%. But not just this have change nowadays you also find gay marriage and heterosexual marriage.

Parent-child relationship get influenced by the following concepts

Social development

Refers to the social and psychological factors

Behavioral genetics

Refers to biological and genetic factors

Attachment

How kids are attached to their parents there are different kind of attachment

- Secure :distress when his mother leave and happy when she come back

- Unsecure: less than secure

- Avoidant: didn’t cry when mother leave and avoid contact with her when she come back

- Anxious-ambivalent: cry when mother leave and keeps crying until she comes back

- Disorganized/Disoriented: display more varied behavior

Trust: feeling of predictability and hopefulness in a relationship

Parenting style: how parent choose to discipline their child and the are to kind authoritarian and permissive

Friendship: feeling of join with other in order to avoid loneliness

Triangle of love: passion, intimacy, and commitment

Love

Romantic: intimacy and passion

Companion: intimacy and commitment

Fatuous: lack of intimacy

Consummate: passion, intimacy, and commitment

Attraction

Physical and psychological

Mere expose effect: theory that the more we are exposed to and become familiar with stimuli, the more we tend to like it.

Physical attraction plays a large roll in how we judge other....