PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tropical Cyclone, Dependent And Independent Variables, The Need

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3102
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Interdependence is key; a tendency to depend on another person and a mutual ability to affect each other"s outcomes: i. e. a student-professor relationship (however this is a little bit more uni-directional) We will focus on close relationships of strong, frequent, and diverse interdependence that lasts over a considerable period of time (includes many relationship factors) Intimate relationships include a feeling of more than just friends , a sexual charge, and/or a feeling of exclusivity (a special and unique partner, presence of sexual desire or physical intimacy) Relationship factors: frequency of contact, duration of contact, direction of in uence (uni- vs. bi-directional) They affect our health and physiology: diversity of interactions, strength of in uence. Women were scanned and strapped to an electric shocker (small, random zaps were administered); they were paired with an intimate partner, a stranger, or no one.