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Family Relations
Mid term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |