PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preadolescence, Conflict Management

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3121
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Model for all relationships, including friendship and romantic love. 3 points: intimacy (feelings of closeness), passion (romantic and sexual attraction), and commitment (decision that love exists and should continue) 2 types pf friendships: liking and companionate love. Liking- people share intimacy but not passion or commitment. Companionate love- close but platonic relationship with intimacy, commitment, but not passion. Styles of friendships: friction, and contention (greeks believed true friendship only existed between free individuals, women and slaves omitted. Courage and loyalty seen as the basis for a special type that only men could share. Men were seen as capable of feeling towards each other special bond that did not exist between men and women or women and women) Men share activities and women share feeling, source of. Occurs in childhood, when children begin to segregate into groups on the basis of gender (maccoby, 2002).