Work for Mr Lawrence - Friday 2nd December. Maintenance and Breakdown of Relationships

For the maintenance of relationships there are four different theories, but they are all similar to the simple idea of reward / need (they are based on the behavioural model, and use the idea of a 'balance sheet' of rewards and costs to explain why some relationships are maintained while others aren't), and are given the general term 'economic theories'. Here's a presentation on them.

Complete this sheet, which summarises the key ideas you need for outlining and evaluating the four theories.

Each of these 'maintenance' theories 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 Thursday's lesson.