Return to the Strange Situation

For Tuesday's lesson review the work you did last year on the Strange Situation, and the link between the three attachment types and adult relationships revealed by the Love Quiz. Specifically:

• Name the three original attachment styles and briefly outline the behaviours associated with them.
• Outline and evaluate the 'Love Quiz'.

We practised some evaluative writing today, looking at theories of maintenance of relationships and writing the evaluation to go with this start to an answer:



Here is an article (actually a draft chapter for a psychology textbook) which applies economic theories more specifically to sex - worth a read.http://web.mit.edu/wangfire/pub9.00/essay3.pdf

Schizophrenia intro.

We looked at some issues and debates relevant to psychopathology -the ppt is here.

We also started to examine some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. You need to be able to list the clinical characteristics - this means the symptoms necessary for diagnosis. The schizophrenia powerpoint is here and we will continue this on Thursday.

Theories of the maintenance of romantic relationships

We looked at the four economic theory of the maintenance of relationships today. All agree with the basic idea of Social Exchange theory, which is itself very similar to the Reward / Need theory (which you can use as a theory of maintenance as well as a theory of formation, as long as you're clear). This is that relationships can be understood from the behavioural perspective - they form and are maintained according to the principles of reinforcement.

Your task for homework is to prepare for a timed essay question on Thursday which will involve the evaluation of theories of maintenance and breakdown. The second page of this sheet which we went through in the lesson (I haven't given you the second page on paper yet) has prompts for evaluation - have a go at these and we will review quickly at the start of Thursday's lesson. I will upload here later today.

And bring your story! (See post below)

Work for Mr Lawrence - Monday 5th December

I'm still not back I'm afraid - maybe tomorrow.

Your work for today - a piece of creative writing. Tell the story of a relationship, from the first meeting of a young psychology student with some other person. This could be in the form of a short story of around 500 words, or a cartoon strip if you prefer. The psychology student has an annoying habit of constantly analysing their relationship in terms of the following theories: the filter model, reward/need theory, social exchange theory, interdependence theory, the investment model and equity theory. Perhaps because of this the relationship doesn't last long before he/she is able to apply Duck's dissolution model to it's unhappy demise. Your task is to weave the seven theories into your story.

Work for Mr Lawrence - Thursday 1st December

I'm not in school today due to illness. You need to look at theories of why relationships fail - we will review all of this next week.

We introduced theories of maintenance of relationships last week - you should be able to outline four 'economic' theories of why relationships continue - Social Exchange, Interdependence, Investment and Equity. Each of these can be used to give a different reason why a relationship ends. Have a go at answering the following question for each of the four:

"According to the .......... theory, a relationship will come to an end if ....."

Duck has a four-stage theory addressing the questions 'how do relationships end?' (rather than 'why?'). You need to be able to give a fairly detailed outline of this and evaluate it. Have a go at the questions on this sheet, and bring all this to next Monday's lesson.