PSYCO347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Table Tennis

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO347
• Professor: Jennifer Passey

Document Summary

Difficult to define what being in a relationship means. Interaction is the basic ingredient, which provides two people with an opportunity to establish mutual influence or interdependence. Ping pong effect where influence bounces back and forth, influencing the others behavior over time. Relationships are inherently dynamic and temporal in nature, composed of series of events. Hard to distinguish between an interaction and relationship, but an interaction involves an isolated exchange that occurs within a limited span of time; whereas a relationship involves repeated interactions over a longer duration of time. Interaction is important for a relationship to exist. Interactions must be unique in some way to the two people involved; that is, their interaction pattern must be different from the interactions of others. Role-based reactions/formal: each person"s behaviour is influenced not by the partner"s behaviour but by the social norms and prescriptions that govern the behaviour of all people who assume that particular role.