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Quiz 1 Next Monday. 40 Multiple choice questions, 2 pts. Each, 80 pts. 5 from chapter 9, pages 324-335 11 or 12 from chapters 14, 8, and 12 Focus on text, with emphasis on lecture material/text 4 Short Answer questions (5 pts. each), 20 pts.
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Quiz 1 Next Monday • 40 Multiple choice questions, 2 pts. Each, 80 pts. • 5 from chapter 9, pages 324-335 • 11 or 12 from chapters 14, 8, and 12 • Focus on text, with emphasis on lecture material/text • 4 Short Answer questions (5 pts. each), 20 pts. • Material from discussion groups, may interface with lectures • Review website activities for discussion groups and material highlighted in d.g. • PLEASE BE IN CLASS ON TIME SO YOU HAVE A FULL 50 MINUTES TO WRITE TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Motivation (Chapter 12) First Lecture Outline: Needs for relationships Love and interpersonal attraction
You meet someone at a party and are attracted to them. What is your attraction based on? Please write down two factors on the slips of paper
Motivation • “To move” • Any process that causes us to move towards a goal or away from an unpleasant situation • Basic biological goals, such as thirst or hunger • View was based on drive reduction models in which “energy” built up (like water in pail), then was released (like water dumping out of pail), motivation reflected amount of water in pail • More abstract psychological goals, such as acceptance, power, success • Motivation related to intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, e.g., getting an “A”
Pets are interesting, but do not meet infants basic physical needs
Attachment theory • Emotional bonds between people have adaptive significance, develop through an interactional history, and influence personality development • History: Spitz and WWII orphans; Harry Harlow and rhesus monkeys; Lorenz and his ducks; Genie and deprivation; sabre-tooth tigers • Bowlby: Attachment, Separation, and Loss
Young infants need caregivers for contact, security, and distress resolution • Separation anxiety: distress when left alone • Distress when strangers or other threats are around • Social referencing • Categories of infant caregiver relationships can be described from how children depend on and act within relationships
Patterns in Infancy: Ainsworth’s Strange Situation • Three patterns which differ on proximity-seeking and distress resolution • Avoidant (A): No distress or proximity-seeking, no distinction between mother and stranger • Secure (B): Distress resolved, proximity-seeking • Resistant (C): Distress not resolved, ambivalent proximity-seeking
Attachment in context • Parental work status does not predict attachment • Emotional adjustment of the parent (e.g., family stress and conflict) is important • Quality of non-parental care is important • Relationship quality becomes internalizes and influences later adult and romantic relationships • AAI: Dismissing, Autonomous, Preoccupied
Motivation for love: What is the basis of attraction and the relationship?
Six styles of love (and sex) • Eros: Love at first sight, passionate, sexual • Ludus: Gameplaying, “playing the field” • Storge: Love based on friendship and trust • Pragma: Pragmatic, logical, planned • Mania: Dependent, jealous, desperate • Agape: Selfless and secure, almost spiritual Many modern movies demonstrate these different kinds of love.
Sternberg’s triangular theory of love Intimacy: Confiding in others; sharing feelings Passion: Erotic attraction; “in love” Commitment: Intention to remain in relationship How do these change with age?