PYSCH REVIW

Psych 355 Chapter 11

• Interpersonal Similarity
• you will start to resemble those you spend more time with
• We seek relationships for psychological support.
• We want someone who matches our intelligence level.
• Self- Disclosure
• important to share personal information about yourself to others

Marriage/Sexuality

• Most people get married from 20-29.
• 50% of people get divorced, even higher divorce rates after remarriage.
• If you make it past first 10 years of marriage, people report getting happier with their marriages as time goes on.
• People continue to have sex as they get older, older people have struggles with sex.
• Women are more picky about choosing their partner.

Sternberg Love

• Passion
• an intense physiological desire for someone.
• Intimacy
• the feeling that you can share all your thoughts and actions with another; and
• Commitment
• the willingness to stay with a person through good and bad times.
• You need all 3 for a healthy relationship.

Elder Abuse

• More common than is reported.
• Abandonment, Emotional Abuse, Exploitation, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Financial Abuse
• Ageism contributes.

Factors related to life transitions

• Temporally Normative
• occurs at an age typical of that culture- getting married in late 20's, retiring at 65
• Temporally Non-Normative
• occurs at an atypical age for people in that culture- getting married in 70s, retiring at age 20
• Statistically Normative
• happens to most members of the culture, married at 25, widowed at 65, retiring at 65, first child in late 20s
• Statistically Non Normative
• happens to few members of the culture (suffering stroke at age 35, spinal cord injury at age 55, winning state lotter

What does it mean to be dead?

• You have to be cortically dead and dead at the brainstem.
• If the brainstem is still intact then the person would be a coma.

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