ED PSYCH 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Disclose, Preadolescence, Mental Model
10 Apr 2018
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Defining intimacy: an emotional attachment between two people. Does not necessarily have a sexual or physical component. But rather is characterized by openness, honesty, self-disclosure, and trust. New importance results from physical, cognitive, and social changes. Not until adolescence do truly intimate relationships first emerge. Young children define friendships by companionship, commone activities, ext. Adolescents are more likely to list things like self-disclosure, common interests, shared attitudes and values, and loyalty as a defining feature of friendships. Consistent with cognitive changes of adolescence that allow individuals to think about abstract concepts (e. g. loyalty). Focuses on transformations in relationships with others. Infancy: need for contact and for tenderness. Middle childhood: need for peers and peer acceptance (6-7) Early adolescence: (2) need for sexual contact and (3) intimacy with opposite sex peers (12-14, 17-18). Late adolescence: (4) need for integration into adult society (17-18-adult). Another crisis: crisis of intimacy vs. isolation is prominent during early.
