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| Sigmund Freud's Theory of adult personality |
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| Claimed that personality does not change after early childhood. Stated that your personality was fully formed by age 5 while the child works through early sexual attachments to the parents. |
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| Five factor model of personality |
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| "Canoe"- proposal that there are five major dimensions to personality. The five dimensions are conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. |
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| Socioemotional selectivity theory |
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| proposes that throughout adulthood people structure the nature and range of their relationships to maximize gains and minimize risks. This theory proposes that there are two types of functions served by interpersonal relationships (Informational and emotional). Informational functions are important in younger years while emotional functions become increasingly important as inevitable death is realized later in life. |
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| need complementarity hypothesis |
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| the proposal that people seek and are more satisfied with marital partners who are opposite of themselves. |
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| applies usually to mothers and daughters. Mother usually regards the daughter as more important than the daughter regards the mother. This is an emotional "gap" |
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| discredited among gerontologists, parents and their adult children switch responsibilites. The child becomes the parent when the parent undergoes physical, cognitive, and social changes. |
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| during early adulthood, children begin to relate to their parents |
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| the anxiety about being forced to take on the role of parent to the parent, even though it may never happen |
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| adult-children feel committed to taking cre of their parents should this become necessary. |
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| intergenerational solidarity model |
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| six dimensions that categorize the cohesiveness of family relationships: the distance apart, frequency of interactions, emotional closeness, agreement in values/lifestyle, exchanges of help, & feelings of obligation. |
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