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6. Who proposed the mere exposure effect?

  • Dion
  • Zajonc
  • Newcomb
  • Kenrick

7. What is cognitive similarity (Byrne, 1971)?

  • People attracted to others who they have been set up with
  • People like others with similar attitudes and beliefs
  • People attracted to others who have similar ways of viewing things
  • People attracted to others of the same level of attractiveness

8. What is holding stereotypes based on?

  • Social insecurity
  • Education
  • Appearance
  • Personality

9. Who found that symmetry was positively correlated with attractiveness?

  • Penton-Voak et al
  • Kenrick
  • Dion
  • Perrett et al

10. In which menstrual phase, are women more likely to prefer masculine faces?

  • Ovulation
  • Luteal
  • Follicular
  • Menstrual

11. What is the mere exposure effect (Zajonc, 1968)?

  • Negative feelings towards someone leads to less contact with them
  • Repeated contact with someone leads to positive feelings towards them
  • Positive feelings towards someone leads to repeated contact with them
  • Repeated contact with someone leads to negative feelings towards them

12. Who suggested the halo effect?

  • Ekman
  • Kenrick
  • Dion
  • Argyle

13. What is important in the early stages of a relationship?

  • Social comparison
  • Attraction
  • Attitudinal similarity
  • Personality similarities

14. What is the matching hypothesis (Walster & Walster, 1969)?

  • People attracted to others of the same level of attractiveness
  • People attracted to others with similar attitudes and beliefs
  • People attracted to others who have similar ways of viewing things
  • People attracted to others who they have been set up with

15. What is important in the later stages of a relationship?

  • Attraction
  • Attitudinal similarity
  • Personality similarities
  • Social comparison

16. What is positive assortative mating?

  • Couples do not often have similarities
  • Individuals choose mates based on survival instincts
  • Paired individuals are more similar than would be expected by chance
  • People consciously choose partners based on similarities

17. What did Dion et al. (1972) assume about stereotypes?

  • What is unattractive is good
  • What is beautiful is seen as bad
  • What is beautiful is seen as good
  • What is unattractive is bad

18. What is construct similarity (Kelly, 1955)?

  • People attracted to others who they have been set up with
  • People like others with similar attitudes and beliefs
  • People like others who have similar ways of viewing things
  • People attracted to others of the same level of attractiveness

19. What was positively correlated with rated attractiveness (Penton-Voak et al., 2001)?

  • Slim figure
  • Heart shaped face
  • Symmetry
  • Blonde hair

20. How does the evolutionary perspective explain similarity?

  • Adaptivity and security of associating with similar people
  • Programmed to fear people who are similar to us
  • Being similar to others provides validation of one's beliefs
  • Relationship between liking for another and attitude agreement