PERDEV 2

• Attachment - Affection, fondness, or sympathy for someone or somethings
• Attachment theory


  A strong emotional and physical bond to one primary caregiver in our first years of life is critical to our development
• Secure Attachment - Children who can depend on their caregivers show distress when separated and joy when reunited
• Ambivalent Attachment - As a result of poor parental availability, these children cannot depend on their primary caregiver to be where when they need them
• Avoidant Attachment - Children with an avoidant attachment tent to avoid parents or caregivers, showing no preference between a caregiver and a complete stranger. This attachment style might be a result of abusive or neglectful caregivers
• Disorganized Attachment - These children display a confusing mix behavior, seeming disoriented, dazed, or confused.
• Attraction or Lust - Driven by sex hormones, testosterone, and estrogen
• Transference Effect - Our past relationships can therefore affect our current interactions with people.
• Propinquity Effect - "Familiarity" people who lives with us, work with us, etc.
• Similarity - Because it validates our values & beliefs system. and who we are as a person
• Reciprocity - We like people who likes us back
• Physical Attractiveness - First impression counts too
• Personality Characteristics and Traits - Empathic persons and socially competent persons.
• Intimacy - " That lovely moment when someone understands and validates us " (Reis, Clark, and Holmes, 2014) and (Reis and Shaver 1998)
• Commitment - An act of deciding to consistently fulfill and live by agreement made with another person, entity or cause
• Passion - Intense state of being that drives and consumes a person to pursue an interest, vision, or a person
• Robert Jeffery Sternberg - Is an American psychologist known for his theories on love, intelligence, and creativity
• Sternberg's theory of love

  Triangular theory of love
• Components of love in Sternberg's theory

  • Intimacy
  • Passion
  • Commitment
• Intimacy


  Feeling of attachment, closeness and connectedness
• Passion


  Fiery depth and intense experience when liking someone, encompassing romantic and sexual attraction
• Commitment


  Short-term and long-term decisions to remain with one another and plan for the future
• Non-love


  Absence of all three components (intimacy, passion, commitment)
• Friendship


  Intimacy present, but no passion or commitment
• Infatuated love


  Passion present, but no intimacy or commitment
• Empty love

  Commitment present, but no intimacy or passion
• Romantic love


  Intimacy and passion present, but no commitment
• Companionate love


  Intimacy and commitment present, but no passion
• Fatuous love


  Commitment and passion present, but no intimacy
• Consummate love


  All three components (intimacy, passion, commitment) present
• Social Relationship - Social relationship tend to be less intimate, with lesser self-disclosure involved, but may still be exclusive, and may demand certain levels of loyalty as in fraternities, or religious organizations, and loosely knitted social clubs like practiitoners of certain specialized profession.
• Social influence - are things such as behavior, actions, attitude, concepts, ideas, communications, wealth, and other resources that brings about changes in beliefs, attitudes, and/or behavior of persons as a result of the action of another person.
• Compliance

  A person seems to agree, and follows what is requested or required of him but does not necessarily have to believe or agree to it.
• Identification

  A person is influenced by someone her or she likes or look up to, like a celebrity, artists, or a fictional character.
• Internalization

  A person is able to own a certain belief or act, and is willing to make it known privately and publicly.
• COGNITIVE intellectual functions of the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning, analyzing, etc.
• PHYSIOLOGICAL

  The physical attributes including the five senses
• SOCIAL

  The manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL

  How thinking, feeling, and behaving interact and happen in a person
• SPIRITUAL

  A person’s consciousness and beliefs, including values and virtues that guide and put meaning into a person’s life.