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The triangular live theory coined by Robert Sternberg explains that love is based on three scales. These are Commitment, intimacy and passion. He goes on ahead and explains that if love is based on more than one element it has a higher probability of surviving.
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Psychosocial stage seven is generativity against stagnation. It explains that people who are successful at the adulthood stage get a feeling that they are contributing to the community through helping the family. The ones who fail feel they are unproductive and failures in the world.
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It is a theory that explains how children learn about either been female or male in a society. It is based on the culture in which they live. The society and culture they live in dictates that they must adjust to the behavior of the gender they are meant to fit. The theory affects children in that they get to learn a norm by observing what people of their gender do.
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Men and women have different approaches to conversations. Men are always after status and females are after support. Women are after intimacy while men are after independence. When women bring a challenge to a man the man is always after giving solutions. However, it is usually not what the woman is looking for.
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Carol Gilligan challenged Lawrence Kohlberg stage in his debate of moral development. She argues that Kohlberg left women out in his argument and relegated them to a status that they are deviants from the norm. Kohlberg discounted women’s experience as contributions to moral reasoning advanced stages.
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Altruism is the act of putting another person’s needs in front of your needs even when they are costly. The reason why a person might want to practice altruism is when he/she wants to feel happy, when one is fighting an addiction, to get more educated and in the promotion of connections socially.
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b) Authoritative parenting similar to authoritarian parenting but with democracy. They are responsive to children needs.
c) Permissive parenting requires little of their children. This is the non traditional parenting.
d) uninvolved parenting is characterized by low responsiveness, few demands and minimal communication.
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They include child neglect, child sexual abuse, child emotional abuse, child physical abuse.
In child neglect, the parent fails to provide basic needs. In child sexual abuse, a child is exploited sexually. In child emotional abuse, the child is subjected under emotional torture and lastly in child physical abuse the child is physically molested.
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Individualistic societies are concerned about own self achievements and disregard groups. It brings a sense of stiff competition. Collectivist societies are interested in the groups needs. An example of such a society is china.
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It is a universal way of human reaction found in all individuals all over the world. It is mandatory and natural for everybody to learn ethnocentrism.
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A measure of influence in a society that the social environment has on schools, communities, families and individuals.
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People of high economic status have a tendency of been very responsive to the children demands while those of low socioeconomic status are authoritative to the children. They want the best out of them and want them to achieve more than the parents achieved.
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Individuals languishing in poverty have higher levels of poverty compared to ones living lavishly. Un employment, insecurity lack of mobility and poor neighborhood are all factors contributing to stress.
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They are segregated by the majority and do not hang out with the rest. This puts them in a lot of psychological stress.
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Realists like working with tools and machines avoiding social activities
Investigative like to solve problems both in science and math. They avoid leading and persuading people.
Artistic prefer artistic and creative activities.
Socials like to help people in teaching, nursing and avoids use of machines.
Enterprising like persuading people and selling ideas to them.
Conventional like working with numbers or already set machines.
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Disenfranchised grief happens in a situation where the loss impact is greater than available coping skills. Prolonged grief is so prolonged causing psychological distress
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Let the person know the fear you are feeling, ask them what they are to expect from you when they die, tell them to concentrate on the fond memories they had on earth, be honest on what one is capable of offering
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They include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
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I have learnt a lot in the lesson to conclude with only one importance. However, I feel strongly that the personality types will help me in making me a better person in the future.
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I am planning to adopt different personality types. Helping people out is healthy for the body while at the same time ensuring I make myself better financially and socially. The challenges will be with trying to change whom I have been to the new person I want to be.
References
Sigelman, C. K., & Rider, E. A. (2011). Life-span human development. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
