PSY313 Unit 8 : Relationships

• Friendships are distinct because they are

Voluntary and informal

Name the three types of friendship styles.

Independents, discerning, and acquisitive

Describe people with independent friendship style

Someone who doesn't hove many friends and are content with other less personal social connections

Describe people with the discerning friendship style

Someone who has a small number of close friends that typical last a long time

Describe the acquisitive friendship style

Someone who has a lot of friends, some close, some distant but a lot nonetheless

How do friendship styles affect happiness?

If a person has an amount of friends that don't match there preferred style, they will feel lonely unhappy

Name the ABC's of friendship.

A: acquisition - meeting someone new and seeing if you're compatible

B: building -where reciprocity begins and the friendship takes

C: Continuation -this is a continuation of the existing friendship

D: Disillusion - the slow break of reciprocity

E: End - the friendship is over

How does your friendship style affect your loneliness?

No friendship style is lonelier, but if you are forced to have an amount of friend different than your preference, you will be unhappy

How do friendships affect your happiness in adulthood?

In adulthoods you rely on your friends to prevent loneliness,

Why are adults more dependent on friends to prevent loneliness?

Family is not around/too sick to relay on and Don't feel comfortable talking about it to their children

What is dyadic withdrawl?

When we enter relationships, we tend to prioritize the friendships that get along with your partner and your friends partners- this limits the annount of friend you can have

Socio-emotional selectivity theory

Predicts that he have fewer friends and the ones have are move important and close

Why does socioemotional selectivity theory say we set our personal goals.

As we age, our goals for life and relationship shift, we start rethinking our understanding of time

How does our perception of time affect our goals?

When we are younger, we feel see