FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Personality Disorder, Religious Abuse, Physical Abuse

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

Our definition for the course: conflict is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from others in achieving their goals. Communication is central in all interpersonal conflict: communication behavior often creates conflict, communication behaviors reflect conflict. Activated by a trigger event: brings conflict to attention. Interdependence: people who are not dependent upon each other no special interest in what the other does does not have conflicts. Mutual activity: decide to be interdependent or independent agents. Move back and forth, need to find balance: unproductive interdependence leads to gridlocked conflicts. Perceived incompatible goals: this is what we fight about, seen as incompatible because: Perceived scarce resources: resources could be any positively perceived physical, economic, or social conflict, two resources are perceived as scarce in relationships. Person doing the blocking is seen as the problem. Two people can have different memories of an event. Begins with different perception = different encoding.