PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Cognition, Alexithymia, Mental Model
11 Mar 2013
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The relationship context of human behavior and development: the goal of relationship science is to understand relationship dynamics and the antecedents and consequences of these. In order to do that, we need to map out the causal pathways by which a person"s interpersonal relationships will in uence his/hers behavior. Conceptualization of relationships: the concept of relationship: o. The study of relationships was hindered for many years. In part because the word relationship, used in everyday life, wasn"t de ned for the purpose of the study. Most agree that relationships are interactions between the relationship partners: each partner"s behavior in uences the other partner"s subsequent behavior within a single interaction episode. And each interaction episode in uences the next one. Relationships are inherently temporal in nature: types of relationships: o o o to develop a. Laws governing the behavior with the same partner depends on the type of relationship.
