Chapter 14 lifespan development

What are the three major ingredients in attraction

: proximity, physical attractiveness, and similarity

•Who is more likely to say that another’s looks don’t affect them: men or women?

•Are they accurate in saying that?

women and not accurate

•Attractiveness is surprisingly BLANK to people’s self-esteem and happiness

•Less attractive people are more BLANK to accept praise for their work as sincere

•If a couple became friends before lovers—looks matter BLANK

•Our feelings can BLANK our attraction

•Attractiveness is surprisingly unrelated to people’s self-esteem and happiness

•Less attractive people are more likely to accept praise for their work as sincere

•If a couple became friends before lovers—looks matter less

•Our feelings can influence our attraction

Does culture influence attraction?

yes

What maters most: face or body

face

what constitutes an attractive face

symmetry

do you opposites arrtractive

no,

types of love difference passionate and companionate

•Passionate: an aroused state of intense absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship

•Companionate: the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

How effective is online matchmaking

no very effective

three major ingredients for love

equity, self-disclosure, positive support

Ratio on positive conlfict vs negtive conlifect

5 to 1

Cohabitation- is this major benefit or a hindrance to relationships

Hindrance

what is cohabitation

to live with an unrrlated perosn-ty[ically a romantic parnter to whome one is not married

afults are more likely to have an episode of mental illness during BLANK than during nay later time

emerging adulthood

difference between obsession vs. compulsion

Obsession is thought and compulsion doing

A term used to describe someone with multiple personalities

Schizophrenia

•Are those with psychosis likely to be violent?

more likely to victims

Schizophrenia afflicts BLANK% of all adults.

1%

•A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression

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Schizophrenia

Waht is PTSD and what does it stand for

•Posttraumatic stress disorder: a disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience

What does OCD mean and what does it stand for

•Obsessive-compulsive disorder: a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both

•OCD-related disorders: hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder

What is a panic disorder

an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations; often followed by worry over a possible panic attack

Erikson Intomacy vs isolation

•young adults struggle to form close relationships and to gain the capacity for intimate love, or they feel socially isolated