week 8: social attraction and relationships

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What is the first stage of the stages of relationships?
Initial attraction
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What is the second stage of the stages of relationships.
Influencing factors
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What is the third stage of the stages of relationships?
Maintaining relationships
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From Langlois meta-analysis, how are attractive people different from unattractive people?
in the way they behave, are judged and treated
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From Langlois meta-analysis what did he find about attractive children in terms of their grades and intelligence and popularity?
they received higher grades, showed higher intelligence and were more popular
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What factors has the evolutionary perspective identified in relation to attractiveness?
Genes (ovulation) , colour red, body shape
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How was ovulation found as a reproductive fitness (evolutionary) attractive factor?
Women sniffed shirts and preferred those wore by symmetrical men just before ovulation.
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How were women rated when wearing red?
More attractive
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What attractiveness factor did Festingers student housing complex via questionnaires and likeliness of friendship investigate?
Proximity
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What was Morelands and Beachs' 'mere exposure' study investigating familiarity of attractiveness?
Women in a series of conditions on the amount of time they when to class, were rated on several characteristics including attractiveness.
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What were the results of Morelands and Beachs' 'mere exposure' experiment looking at the familiarity factor of attraction?
Women who attended the class more were correlational rated as more attractive = familiarity
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What was measured in Newcombs rent free housing experiment on attitude similarity?
Changes in interpersonal attraction
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What was the initial attraction founded from in Newcombs rent free housing study?
proximity
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What was the final attraction founded from in Newcombs rent free housing study?
similarity of attitudes
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What background factors affect attraction perception?
overcrowding and hotness of room.
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What effect does accidental arousal have on attractiveness?
It enhances it.
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What model in the reinforcement approach explains attractiveness?
reinforcement - affect model
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What is the social exchange theory: cost reward ratio?
attraction is determined by calculation of costs to be reinforced by that person.
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What is the social exchange theory: minimax strategy?
Profit occurs whereby reward exceeds the costs.
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What occurs in the minimax strategy, when cost exceeds the reward?
break-up
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What is social exchange theory: comparison levels?
A standard developed telling you whether a new relationship would be profitable or not.
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What is equity theory?
There is equal input and equal output in marriage and compensation of a relationship.
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What two situations does equity theory cover?
marriage and compensation
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What are the three attachment styles identified by Hazan and Shaver for relationships?
secure, avoidant, anxious
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What is the characteristics of the attachment type: secure?
trust and comfort
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what are the characteristics of the attachment type: avoidant?
uncomfortable and lack fo trust
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What is likely to occur in anxious attachment types?
Break-up
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What did Fehr find from investigating kinds of love through love scales?
Passionate love and Compassionate love
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What is the 3 factor theory of love?
3 interacting variables: culture, appropriateness and emotional arousal
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What is the ultimate form of love?
Consummate love
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What are the 3 factors in Sternbergs 'no greater love'?
Passion, Commitment, Intimacy
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What are Rusbults and Zembrodts passive responses to relationship breakdown?
Loyalty and Neglect behaviours
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What are Rusbults and Zembrodts active responses to relationship breakdown?
Voice and Exit behaviours
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What is the passive response 'loyalty', in relationship breakdown?
Waiting for improvement
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What is the passive response 'neglect', in relationship breakdown?
allowing deterioration to occur
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What is the active response 'voice', in relationship breakdown?
Work on relationship improvement
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What is the active response 'exit', in relationship breakdown?
End the relationship
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What was Ducks Relationship Dissolution Model?
4 phase model that relationships pass through, each with a threshold that triggers an action.
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What is the threshold in the intrapsychic phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
'I can't stand this anymore'
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What is the threshold in the dyadic phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
' I'd be justified in withdrawing'
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What is the threshold in the social phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
' I mean it'
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What is the threshold in the grave dressing phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
' Its now inevitable'
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What is the behaviours in the grave dressing phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
breakup or conquer
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What is the behaviours in the intrapsychic phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
focus on partners behaviour and assess relationship stance
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What is the behaviours in the dyadic phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
attempt repair and confrontation vs avoidance
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What is the behaviours in the social phase of Ducks relationship dissolution model?
involve others for opinions and confrontations
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