Family Life & Interpersonal Relationships

Instrumental: a way of thinking that an indiv. values BEING Terminal: goals/ideals a person works towards ATTAINING

self awareness altruism motivation empathy ability to love/be loved

Largely determined in childhood Can boost by positive talk and positive thinking

Learning how to say “NO”

Acknowledging that individual controls own response

Women: taste, smell, hearing Men: vision Women: fine motor skills Men: brute strength Nature/nurture both create diff

Amphetamine like responses come from: Dopamine Norepinephrine Phenylethylamine

Propagation oriented. Romance wanes after 4 years, enough time to have and raise an infant.

• Sensorimotor stage, birth-2. Develops sense organs, learns objects exist out of sight • Preoperational stage, 2-7. Sympathy develops. Ability to imagine mental lives of others. • Concrete Operational stage, 7-12. Develops cognitive structures, including rule of conservation (volume does not change with shape) • Formal Operational stage, 12-onward. Abstract thought, theory rather than empirical knowledge, is developed.

Birth - 2 social attachment basic motor skills notions of cause/effect

2-4 Language devel fantasy and play improvement in self control

5-12 cooperation morals gender roles basic skills Awareness of place in world

12-22 Sexuality Peers over family Independence and personal identity

23-30 Marriage, perhaps Family, and Career establishment

31-50 Household maintenance Child rearing Career Advancement

51-death Accept events of life Develop healthy perspective on life and death Redirect personal energy to new roles and responsibilities

90%+ of Americans will marry Most fights are about money or sex

Conform to prescribed marial roles

Partnership and rewards of love more important than marital roles

Married people: more money, sex, better health Men live longer, lower rates of alcohol abuse and depression Women’s wages go down

US has highest rate of divorce Divorced people more likely to marry again than singles Effect on children is enormous, but does not affect academics. After birth of child, marital satisfaction declines Divorce rate rises after children

Pituitary gland releases gonadotropins, which stimulate production of sex hormones, estrogen and testosterone

Endocrine system. Hypothalamus sends message to pituitary, which turns off and on glands that produce hormones. Hormones carried to target via bloodstream

More likely in African Americans