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Sternberg
- triangular model of relationships
- framework for understanding all relationships
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gender differences in friendship styles
- appear early in development
- before age 5, kids voluntarily segregate themselves according to gender
- girls: small groups
- boys: larger groups, hierarchical organization
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relationships in adolescents
- concerned with emotional intimacy (girls more than boys)
- men find it difficult to develop such relationships, have buddies, activity-based relationships
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adults and intimate relationships
men develop emotionally intimate love relationships with women, decrease time and engergy to men friends
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friendship styles
- men and women have flexible styles
- use different styles to relate to men and female friends
- men and women acknowledge cross gender nonsexual friendships are possible but require special rules
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dating
- forms love relationships, began in 1920s
- a method of courting, forum for recreation, socialization, sexual exploration
- adolescents choose dates similar to future mates
- people prefer partners who are warm, kind, expressive, intelligent, physically attractive
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committed relationships
follow several blueprints: companionship, independence, interdependence
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companionship
- separate gender roles
- emphasizes woman's role in maintaining love relationship
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independence and interdependence
- emphasize self-development for men and women
- differ in importance of commitment
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issues in love relationships
- believes about love
- communication
- division of household labor
- power and conflict
- relationship stability
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men in marriage
- more romantic in conceptualization of love
- benefit more
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communication
- major factor for relationships
- differences for men and women likely due to power differentials
- balance of power favors men
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division of household labor
- reflects power difference
- women perform far more of this work than men
- women dissatisfied with this division
- men beginning to do more household work
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marital violence
- women more likely than men to be injured as a result of relationship violence
- decreases stability of relationship, does not always end it
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stable relationships
- similar attitudes and values
- commitment factor produces greater stability
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divorse
- increased 1980s
- decreased 1990s
- people who have divorsed tend to see fault in ex-spouse rather than in institution of the marriage
- brings financial and emotional problems
- some find positive factors
- many remarry or cohabit, some find more equitable second marriages
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patterns of marriage
- women experience more egalitarian relationships and roles in societies in which they make significant economic contributions
- male dominated cultures restrict women's access to resources; restrictive marriages, fewer options for women to leave marriage, condone greater intimate-partner violence
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companionate love
a combination of commitment and intimacy without passion
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gross motor skills
- skills involving use of large muscles of the body, producing large movements
- kicking, throwing, running, jumping
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homophobia
the unreasonable fear and hatred of homosexuality
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machismo
- a Spanish word
- strong and assertive masculinity and implying complete male authority
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matriarchy
family pattern in which women are dominant or a pattern in which women are the head of the household due to father's absence
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