PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethology
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Children had more than twice as many ideas about how to make friends than they have about how to end a relationship. (bell and haddas) What is conflict: make statements about what is okay to fight for, whom to fight with, when to fight, how to fight. o o. Act your age? if a kid is 8 they will act 8! (shit ) Coser and simmel wrote about conflict as a normal component of any ongoing relationship. The perception of a conflict is what makes it a conflict. This is the essential component of the psychological explanation. The term conflict management to can be more useful than conflict resolution. Not all conflict can or should be resolved. There is a difference between a good conflict and a nice conflict, at times, a group must make enough noise and disturbance to make sure that a management of the situation at hand is aimed for.
