9: Attraction and Close Relationships Flashcards
The desire to establish social contact with others.
Need for affiliation
According to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, need for affiliation refers to the high need of an individual to have both interpersonal and social relationships with people.
Mccleland
Whose experiment entails the context “Misery loves company” wherein you seek those in the same situation
Shacter experiment
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.
Loneliness
Two basic and necessary factors in the attraction process:
Proximity effect & Mere exposure effect
The single best predictor of attraction is physical _____, or nearness
The proximity effect
The more often we are exposed to a stimulus, the more we come to like that stimulus
The mere exposure effect
People tend to become involved romantically with others who are equivalent in their physical attractiveness.
Matching hypothesis
These theory entails various combinations of passion, intimacy, and commitment give rise to seven different types of love; absence of the 3 components - nonlove
Sternberg’s Triangular Love theory
feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships
a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment
Intimacy
involves feelings that lead a person to remain with someone and move toward shared goals
a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment
Commitment
the drives that lead to physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena in loving relationships
a. Intimacy
b. Passion
c. Commitment
Passion
a person feels a
bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense
passion or long-term commitment (it only involves intimacy)
Liking
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
Infatuated love
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
Empty love
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
Romantic love
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
Companionate love
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
Fatuous love
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
Consummate love
refers to the interpretation of an event by inferring what caused the event to occur
Attribution
interrelation of reciprocity
complementarily
one spouse blames or pressures while the other spouse avoids or withdraws (Christensen, 1988).
The demand-withdraw interaction pattern
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.
Negative affect reciprocity
