HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Monogamy, Reciprocal Liking, Sexual Arousal
15 Mar 2016
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Chapter 7: commiting to relationships and sexual health. Communicaing how you feel: people difer in comfort when expressing, asserive: directly and honestly communicate needs. Improving communicaion skills: self disclosure: sharing personal informaion with others, becoming a beter listener. Approval, inimacy, social integraion, nurturing others and being nurtured, reassurance of self-worth. Emoional availability: the ability to give and receive from other people emoionally without being inhibited by fears of being hurt. Families: modern family: diferent from previous generaions. Today"s family unit: family of origin impacts child"s psychological, social and spiritual development. Establishing friendships: enjoyment, acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, coniding and understanding, spontaneity. Sig others, parters, couples: fascinaion, exclusiveness, sexual desire, giving the utmost, being a champion/advocate. Love: companionate love: secure, trusing atachment, reciprocal liking, respect, passionate love. Dysfuncional families: interacions inhibit psychological growth, negaive interacions are the norm, children of alchoholics, survivors of abuse. Jealousy in relaionships: overdependence, severity of threat, low self esteem, fear of losing control o.
