[PSYC 466] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (32 pages long)

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 466
• Professor: Nicholas M.Hertz

Document Summary

7 components of intimacy: knowledge: intimate partners have extensive personal, often confidential, information. 2. about each other interdependence: intimate partners have strong, diverse, and enduring influence on each other: caring: intimate partners feel more affection for one another than they do for most. A powerful drive to establish intimate connections to others. People suffer, both mentally and physically, when they lack intimacy. A tendency to form stable, affectionate connections to others may have been evolutionarily adaptive. Fulfilling our need to belong can be a matter of life or death the influence of culture. Fewer people are marrying than ever before. Only half of the adults in the us are currently married. People routinely live together even when they"re not married. Most young adults will live with a lover before they ever marry. People often have babies even when they"re not married. On average, an american mother has her first child before she gets married.