PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Attachment Theory, Ethology, Random Assignment
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The importance of relationships: humans have the need to be embedded in healthy relationships just as much as humans need food, water, or oxygen, there fore humans have the need to belong. In the field of human ethology, it is seen that in hunter-gatherer groups the patterns of social behavior that appear to be universal (i. e. mother and child, flirting, courting, and dominance) In humans, mortality rates and psychological problems increased for those who were divorced, unmarried or widowed. Feeling stupid in front of your parents and you meet someone like your parent so you start to feel stupid again: this is your relational self activating specific self-belief and feelings to shape around current interactions. European and commonwealth countries prefer an exchange approach. Reward and social exchange theories of interpersonal relationships: even the most intimate relationships can be based on exchange as people gravitate towards people that provide them with rewards (positive exchange)
