You Have a Friend Who Has a Confusing Way of Dissolving

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Essay

You have a friend who has a confusing way of dissolving relationships with which she is dissatisfied.When she's ready to terminate the relationship,her strategy seems to be to behave in ways that provoke her partner into breaking up with her.Is she a selfish and manipulative coward,or might there be a less disparaging way of viewing her dissolution strategy? Keep in mind Robin Akert's (1998)research on the dissolution of romantic relationships.

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Definitions:

Connectionism

An approach in cognitive science that models mental or behavioral phenomena as networks of simple interconnected units.

Rhinoceros

A large, heavy mammal with thick skin and one or two horn-like protrusions on its snout, belonging to the family Rhinocerotidae.

Technique

A way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.

Rehearsal

The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.