9: Attraction and Close Relationships Flashcards

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1
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The desire to establish social contact with others.

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Need for affiliation

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According to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, need for affiliation refers to the high need of an individual to have both interpersonal and social relationships with people.

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Mccleland

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3
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Whose experiment entails the context “Misery loves company” wherein you seek those in the same situation

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Shacter experiment

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4
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The state of distress or discomfort that results when one perceives a gap between one’s desires for social connection and actual experiences of it.

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Loneliness

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5
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Two basic and necessary factors in the attraction process:

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Proximity effect & Mere exposure effect

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6
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The single best predictor of attraction is physical _____, or nearness

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The proximity effect

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7
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The more often we are exposed to a stimulus, the more we come to like that stimulus

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The mere exposure effect

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8
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People tend to become involved romantically with others who are equivalent in their physical attractiveness.

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Matching hypothesis

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9
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These theory entails various combinations of passion, intimacy, and commitment give rise to seven different types of love; absence of the 3 components - nonlove

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Sternberg’s Triangular Love theory

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10
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feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships

a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment

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Intimacy

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11
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involves feelings that lead a person to remain with someone and move toward shared goals

a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment

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Commitment

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12
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the drives that lead to physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena in loving relationships

a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment

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Passion

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13
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a person feels a
bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense
passion or long-term commitment (it only involves intimacy)

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Liking

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14
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often what is felt as “love at first sight.” But without the intimacy and the commitment components of love, it may disappear suddenly. (it only involves passion)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

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Infatuated love

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15
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the commitment remains, but the intimacy and passion have died. (it only involves commitment)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

A

Empty love

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16
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bonded emotionally (as in liking) and physically through passionate arousal. (passion + intimacy)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

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Romantic love

17
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the passion has gone out of the relationship, but a deep affection and commitment remain; generally a personal relation you build with somebody you share your life with, but with no sexual or physical desire. (intimacy + commitment)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

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Companionate love

18
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exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a commitment is motivated largely by passion, without the stabilizing influence of intimacy (passion + commitment)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

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Fatuous love

18
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complete form of love, representing the ideal
relationship toward which many people strive but which apparently few
achieve (intimacy + passion + commitment)

a. Infatuated love
b. Empty love
c. Romantic love
d. Companionate love
e. Fatuous love
f. Consummate love

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Consummate love

19
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refers to the interpretation of an event by inferring what caused the event to occur

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Attribution

20
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interrelation of reciprocity

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complementarily

21
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one spouse blames or pressures while the other spouse avoids or withdraws (Christensen, 1988).

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The demand-withdraw interaction pattern

22
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also called reciprocation of negativity or mutual escalation, that refers to the tendency for one person’s negative behavior to instigate another’s negative behavior.

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Negative affect reciprocity