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Key Terms
• Affectionless Psychopathy
• Affective Orientation
• Anxious Shyness
• Argumentativeness
• Assertiveness
• Authoritarianism
• Cognitive Dispositions
• Communication Apprehension
• Communication Dispositions
• Depression
• Dismissing Attachment
• Dogmatism
• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Loneliness
• Empathy
• External Locus of Control
• Extraversion
• Fearful Attachment
• Ideal-Self
• Internal Locus of Control
• Intrapersonal
• Intrapersonal Communication
• Introversion
• Locus of Control
• Loneliness
• Machiavellianism
• Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis
• Narcissism
• Personality
• Preoccupied Attachment
• Rejection Sensitivity
• Relational Dispositions
• Responsiveness
• Right-Wing Authoritarians
• Secure Attachment
• Self-Concept
• Self-Conscious Shyness
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Image
• Self-Monitoring
• Self-Worth
• Shyness
• Social Loneliness
• Social-Personal Dispositions
• Sociocommunicative Orientation
• Temperament
• Verbal Aggression
• Versatility
• Willingness to Communicate
Real World Case Study
John’s mother, Kathleen, was 16 years old when he was born. Kathleen’s mother
had died during her childbirth because she had refused to get cancer treatments, which
could have harmed her unborn child. After Kathleen’s birth and her mother’s death,
Kathleen’s father was always cold towards his daughter and often blamed her for his
wife’s death.
When Kathleen entered her teenage years, she started acting out and started
participating in several risky behaviors, which is how she ended up pregnant at 16. After
John’s birth, Kathleen was simply ill-equipped to handle a child, let alone attempt to
bond with a child. During John’s first two years of life, he was often dropped at Kathleen’s
friends’ houses or even her grandmother’s house, and then Kathleen would disappear
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