DEP 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Inductive Reasoning, Prostate Cancer
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Recall development of type of friendships from childhood to adolescence. Main goal: find someone similiar to establish relationship. Descriptive model of how friendships go through different stages. Build up - gradually build to friendship level. Continuation - once friendship is established, must maintain degree of friendship. Multiple complex cognitive and social factors determine acquaintance buildup". Multiple life factors determine if deterioration occurs. Classic folk psychology (naive) problem: theorize why people do what they do. Assortative mating: idea people who are in a relationship with eachother are more likely to be similar to eachother; similarity based on various traits. Religion, appearance, age, socioeconomic status (ses), intelligence, politics, etc. Stimulus-value-role-theory: couples generally proceed through three stages. Values: judgment based on attitudes and values. Role: judgment based on outcomes in relationship. Early infatuation dopamine reward centers in brain. Long term commitment endorphins (endogenous opioids); increases resistance to pain (correlates to higher endorphins) Break-ups activity in parietal lobe equivalent to experiencing physical pain.