Exam 5: Intimacy: Developing and Experiencing Affectionate Bonds

According to adolescent intimacy researcher Kim Openshaw (1999), the development of intimacy revolves around the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that occur through early childhood.

According to marriage therapist Edward Waring, it is important that each partner is able to communicate their sexual needs, wants, and desires, but it is not important that each partner's sexual needs, wants, and desires are fulfilled by the marriage.

A(n) ________ is an intimate type that appears to be intimate on the surface, but they lack depth. Because of the lack of depth, these relationships may never progress beyond friendship.

Erikson's formulation displaying the life-long process of social and emotional development is known as what?

According to Erikson, individuation is a key process in an adolescent's identity formation. What is "individuation"? How does individuation affect intimacy? What is its outcome?

________ is at the core of all love relationships, and it is characterized by feelings that promote a sense of closeness, bonding with one another, and connection.

One of Weiss' five essential psychological needs, this need is best met when we have someone in our life to take care of-and to take care of us.

In the sociocultural context of intimacy, we see that the ways in which people intimately relate to one another changes from culture to culture.

According to Prager, couples experience intimacy and intimate relating in uniform ways.

Females emphasize activity and achievement in their group friendships; they show less interest in reciprocity/mutuality and support/caring than boys do.

The capacity for intimacy is acquired from the moment of birth.

Why is intimacy experienced differently from relationship to relationship? What factors lead to this?

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. The ________ includes factors specific to each member of the couple, such as personality traits, attitudes and beliefs about the overall status of the relationship; emotional reactions to intimacy; willingness to self-disclose; and each partner's intimacy needs, goals, and motives.

One of Dunphy's earlier stages of friendship development, this stage is comprised entirely of opposite-sex cliques; no longer are the same-sex friendship affiliations as dominant as they were throughout elementary school and the early years of junior high. Groups exist only long enough in order for its members to learn or to be socialized into those gender-role characteristics needed for adult relationships.

Autonomy refers to what?

Individuals experiencing this form of intimacy fear may ask, "What if we end up having sex and he/she doesn't really love me? What if he/she disapproves of my body?"

Some sociologists and anthropologists believe that intimacy is the need for affiliation, or the need to have relationships in our lives, and that this is a universal, innate drive.

The text lists eleven forms of intimacy fear. Name five.

Influential psychologist Erik Erikson formulated the "Eight Stages of Man" developmental theory. Name five of the eight stages outlined by Erikson, including the ages distinct to each stage.

From his research of intimacy among married couples, marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. List and describe four.