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• Affect – pertains to people’s emotions and feelings.
• Behavior – pertains to people’s action – both
observable (overt) or not readily observable (covert).
• Cognition – pertains to people’s thought process such
as memory, perception and information processing.
Our Experience of gender and sexuality is generally a
relational experience. It is relational because while as
individuals, we have our own affect, cognition and
behavior and to be aware of, we are also viewing
ourselves in relation to others who also have their own
personal preoccupations.
Self-/Other-awareness
Relationship and Intimacy
Socialization
Meaning-making
Awareness
Awareness is our conscious understanding of something.
As an individual, we are in constant process towards
self-awareness.
Self-/Other-awareness
Relationship and Intimacy
Socialization
Meaning-making
Relationship and Intimacy
When two people recognize and become aware of
each other’s lives, share their personal bubbles, so to
speak, and allow frequency of interaction between
them.
Self-/Other-awareness
Relationship and Intimacy
Socialization
Meaning-making
Socialization
The process by which we learn cultural norms and
traditions.
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