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Relationships with family members, friends etc, characterized by behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability. |
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People present in the household during a child's first years of life, usually parents and siblings. |
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Sharing personal feelings or information with others. |
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The "dialect", or individual speech pattern and communication style of each gender. |
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A family in which the interaction between family members inhibits rather than enhances psychological growth. |
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An aversive reaction evoked by a real or imagined relationship involving a person's partner and a third person. |
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Exclusive sexual involvement with one partner. |
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A series of monogamous sexual relationships. |
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A relationship in which partners agree that sexual involvement can occur outside the relationship. |
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A relationship in which partners agree that sexual involvement can occur outside the relationship. |
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Living together without being married |
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cohabitation lasting a designated period of time that is considered legally binding in some states. |
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Accepting responsibility for personal decisions, choices, and actions. |
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Developing individual potential through a balanced and realistic appreciation of self worth and ability. |
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The ability to make and implement decisions |
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The degree of confidence partners feel in a relationship |
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Recognition of oneself as a sexual being; a composite of biological sex characteristics, gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. |
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not exhibiting elusively male or female sex characteristics |
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The reproductive organ in man (testes) or woman (ovaries) |
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period of sexual maturation |
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The endocrine gland controlling release of hormones from the gonads |
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Secondary sex characteristics |
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associated with sex, but not related to reproduction, like voice pitch, body hair etc |
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Psychological condition of being feminine or masculine as defined by the society one lives in. |
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Process by which a society communicates behavioral expectations to its individual members. |
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Expression of maleness or femaleness in everyday life |
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When one's gender identity doesnt match one's biological sex |
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a person who is psychologically of one sex but physically of the other |
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Generalizations about how men or women should act |
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Combo of masculine and feminine traits in a single person. |
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Region that encloses the female's external genitalia. |
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Fatty tissue covering pubic bone in women |
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area of the brain near pituitary gland, helps control reproductive functions |
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The first menstrual period |
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hypothesized love follows a pattern : 1) Imprinting 2) Attraction 3) Attachment 4) Production of a cuddle chemical |
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