PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Exchange Theory, Ovulation, Averageness
23 Oct 2017
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The importance of relationships: human beings appears to have a biological need to belong in relationships, biologically based needs for food, oxygen, warmth, and safety. Arguments for the need to belong: we have tendency to seek out social relationships, relationships help individuals and offspring survive, people stop seeking relationships when they are content, ex: 6 friends, no longer seek friendship in others. Different ways of relating to others: distinctions among different types of relationships. Communal and exchange relationships: communal relationships: relationships in which the individuals feel a responsibility for one. Attachment styles: attachment theory: a theory about how our early attachments with parents shape our relationships for the rest of our lives, study infants and caregivers. Seek less: secure attachment style: they are confident in their relationship, are conformable with, anxious-preoccupied style: characterized by dependency or (cid:498)clinginess. (cid:499) tend not to relationship. Stability of attachment styles are stable throughout a person"s life.
