Vocab Chapter 14

• Relationships


  Connections that people form and maintain with others
• Honesty


  Truthfulness about one's actions, desires, and feelings
• Trust


  Belief in another person's reliability and good intentions
• Respect


  Acknowledgement that each person has worth and deserves to have needs met; shown through kindness and considerate behavior
• Boundaries


  Rules about what behaviors are acceptable or unacceptable
• Affirmative consent


  Direct, verbal, freely given agreement that occurs when someone clearly says yes
• Immediate family


  Close relatives, including parents or guardians, children and siblings
• Extended family


  Distant relatives, including aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents
• Socialize


  To teach to behave in ways society accepts
• Traditions


  Patterns of behavior passed down in a culture
• Sibling rivalry


  Competitive feelings between siblings; siblings may compete for material or non-material items
• Law enforcement


  Community workers who make sure laws are followed
• Coworkers


  People who work for the same employer on do the same kind of work
• Professional communication


  Process of sending and receiving messages in a formal environment, such as a workplace or school
• Friendship


  Relationship between two or more people who share common interests, values, and goals and support each other
• Acquaintances


  People in a person's social circle who may not be close enough to be friends
• Reciprocal


  Shared or exhibited by both sides
• Clique


  Small group of friends who deliberately exclude other people from joining or being a part of their small group
• Dating


  Regularly spending time or communicating with someone whom a person is interested in romantically
• Attraction


  Physical and emotional connection, or chemistry, that draws people together
• Exclusive


  Romantically involved only with a dating partner
• Love


  Intense affection and attachment to another person
• Infatuation


  Intense romantic feelings for another person that develop suddenly and are usually based on physical attraction
• Passion


  Typically short-lived attraction, based on physical attraction rather than a deeper, long-lasting emotional connection
• Group dating


  Spending time in a group that includes someone a person is interested in romantically
• Breakup


  End of a romantic relationship
• Sexual abstinence


  Decision to refrain from sexual activity for physical, social, or emotional reasons
• Sexual activity


  Involves contact with a person's reproductive organs; can include sexual intercourse or other activities
• Sexual intercourse


  Sexual activity that involves penetration, or insertion of a body part or object into another body part
• Oxytocin


  Hormone released during sexual activity that promotes bonding and connection