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HDFS Exam 2--Love
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Undergraduate 1
02/20/2012

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Failure to thrive
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babies who are not recieving sensitive and intimate care-not reaching developmental mile stones
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measures of intimacy
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-focus
-concern
-commitment
-communication
-sexuality
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females (first impressions)
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better at picking up non verbal signs
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male (first impressions)
Definition
males read more sexual cues in non verbal
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physical attractivness
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very important in beginning relationships-not important once you get to know someone
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halo effect
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making someone seem perfect-give someone attributes that they don't have
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trade offs
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you will trade one attribute that you don't like for one that you do like and just deal with the one you don't like
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similarity
Definition
makes really long lasting relationships
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obsticles to love
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-lack of trust
-lack of commitment
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how many couples in 20's have sex within month of first date?
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50%
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Three t's important to developing a strong relationship
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-time
-togetherness
-talking
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differentiation
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becoming own person, forming own opinions and beliefs
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endogamy
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similarity, strenthens groups-stronger relationships
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exogamy
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different, weakens group
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exclusivity
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in a commited relationship, becoming more similiar as you get to know each other better
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engagement
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-used to be very difficult to back out of engagement, 1/2 of all couples engaged before marriage
-public commitment
-acceptance of family and friends
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testing period
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testing to make sure you are ready for marriage
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gender differences-cohabitation
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-women=trial marriage
-men=free sex and house keeping
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commitment
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view marriage as perminent and long term-honesty and faithfulness
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adaptibility
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flexible in opinions and attitudes, tolerant, able to compromise
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fulfillment of needs
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-psychosocial
-social
-sexual
-material
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homogamy
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pairing of people with similiar characteristics or from similiar backgrounds
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why people prefer attractive over unattractive
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-aesthetic appeal
-glow of beauty
-status
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men vs women for looks
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-men care more about how partners look than women
-women more likely to value socioeconomic factors
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as relationship involvment increases
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personality and status more important, looks not so much
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men and women bring to relationship
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-men bring status, economic power, role as protecter
-women bring attractivness, nurturing, child bearing, house keeping
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double standard of aging
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youth and beauty expected in women-as women get older, eligible partners decline
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closed fields
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small number of people who are likely to interact whether they are attracted or not
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open fields
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characterized by large numbers of people who do not ordinarily interact
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hooking up
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partners become sexual first and then have possibility of dating
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wheel theory of love
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rapport, self-revelation, mutual dependency, fulfilment of intimacy needs
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rapport
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sense of ease, feeling of understanding each other
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Jelousy
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aversive response that occurs because of partners real, imagined, or likely involvement with a third person
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suspiciose jelousey
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occurs in early stages of relationship, occurs when there is no reason to be jelouse
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reactive jelousy
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occurs when partner reveals a current, past, or anticpated relationship with another person
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unrequited love
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love not returned
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cyrano style
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having romantic desire for someone regardless of how hopeless love is
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giselle style
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misperception that relationship is more likely to develop than actually is
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don quixote style
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general desire to be in love regardless of whom we love
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