Intimate Relationships Between Estrogens And Androgens

When looking at intimate relationships from the varying psychological perspectives one must wonder how it is that any one perspective could be more or less important or contributive than another. Each perspective actually seems to come into play and have a role throughout an intimate relationship. When we first meet someone we decide if we are attracted to that person, we gauge how we physically respond to them this tends to be biologically driven, â€Å"The lust system is proposed to motivate individuals to locate sexual opportunities and is mainly associated with estrogens and androgens in the brain. The attraction system directs an individual’s attention toward specific mates, makes him or her crave emotional union with this person, and†¦show more content†¦421-422) Once we are attracted to an individual and it is mutual we begin to form a relational bond with them, it is during the development and maintenance of relationships that other psychology perspectives are commonly observed. â€Å"Because interpersonal relationships are the foundation and theme of human life, most human behavior takes place in the context of the individual’s relationship with others.† (Reis/Collins/Berscheid, 2000, pg 844) Once we enter into a relationship the ways that we develop the relationship and maintain it are going to be molded by not only our own thoughts and behaviors but the other persons as well. As we look at the next four perspectives we will see how they are similar and how they differ, we will look at how they work together and how they can cause conflict. Looking at the Learning perspective we see that this perspective is the belief that we learn behaviors through observing and mimicking the behaviors of others and stresses the importance of unique experiences in our environment. In the aspect of relationships it has been shown that people mimic each other if they have the same goal and are trying to accomplish the same thing. ( Ondobaka, Association of Psychological Science, Jan 10, 2010) Have you ever had a loved one be in a certain mood around you and then shortly realized