Attraction

Question 0

What does a fatal attraction describe?

Answer 0

A situation in which individuals are attracted to a partner because of characteristics hey find pleasing initially but later come to dislike. I

Question 1

What term describes the liking of things or people who are associated with ourselves in superficial ways?

Answer 1

Implicit egotism

Question 2

Which hypothesis claims that we are initially attracted to everybody and come to dislike others who turn out to be attitudinally dissimilar?

Answer 2

Repulsion hypothesis

Question 3

Which hypothesis proposes that people are attracted to others with similar attitudes?

Answer 3

Similarity-attraction hypothesis

Question 4

What theory explains attraction in terms of people’s tendency to form balanced triads composed of person P, the other O, and an issue X, and their respective relationships?

Answer 4

Balance theory

Question 5

What term is used to describe peoples desire for feedback that is consistent with their self conceptions, even when they are negative?

Answer 5

Self-verification

Question 6

Undifferentiated physiological arousal whose source is ambiguous is attributed to the presence of an attractive person which results in liking, or attraction to that person; is part of what theoretical model?

Answer 6

Misattribution of arousal

Question 7

A process through which people come to like those they are more exposed to.

Answer 7

Mere exposure

Question 8

A situation in which individuals are attracted to a partner because of characteristics they find pleasing initially but later come to dislike.

Answer 8

Fatal attraction

Question 9

Which bias describes considering the male experience as the norm, while the female experience is ignored or considered abnormal.

Answer 9

Androcentric bias

Question 10

Term describing an organisms desire to pass it’s genes on to the next generation through reproduction or to ensure the genetic survival of kin.

Answer 10

Inclusive fitness

Question 11

Term describing the mental representation of categories, such a human faces, around their modal features.

Answer 11

Prototypes

Question 12

Term describing the different reproductive goals of men and women.

Answer 12

Parental investment

Question 13

Term describing an organisms ability to resist parasitic infections; it is conveyed by facial symmetry.

Answer 13

Heterozygosity

Question 14

The theoretical claim that sex differences in physical attractiveness are best understood as stemming from the division of labour in industrialized societies.

Answer 14

Sociocultural view

Question 15

Term describing our proclivity to attribute a host of positive qualities to physically attractive people.

Answer 15

“What is beautiful is good” stereotype

Question 16

Which perceptual phenomena explains why our perceptions of an average looking person can be adversely affected if we had prior exposure to an extremely attractive person.

Answer 16

Contrast effect

Question 17

Which theoretical statement explains why partners in established relationships are generally well-matched in terms of their physical attractiveness.

Answer 17

Matching hypothesis

Question 18

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Answer 18

No. Universal beauty=symmetry

Question 19

Ideal hip to waist ratio.

Answer 19

0.7

Question 20

Two of women ideal facial types:

Answer 20

Baby faced and maturity

Question 21

According to evolutionary theory long legs indicate what?

Answer 21

Fertility

Question 22

Men prefer spouses ____ years ___ while women prefer spouses ____ years ____ than them.

Answer 22

Men prefer spouses 2.7 years younger and women prefer spouses 3.4 years older.

Question 23

What three needs are deemed fundamental to our mental and physical health?

Answer 23

1) need for affiliation
2) need for intimacy
3) need to belong

Question 24

What provides humans with the motivation to seek the company of others, especially in times of fear and uncertainty.

Answer 24

Need for affiliation

Question 25

Why provides humans with the motivation to seek relationships of depth with one person.

Answer 25

Need for intimacy

Question 26

What leads humans to desire to form relationships of breadth and depth.

Answer 26

Need to belong

Question 27

Gazing situations indicate _______ or ______.

Answer 27

Love or heighten aggression

Question 28

If someone likes you, you will most likely like them too. Which principle does this work on?

Answer 28

Reciprocity

Question 29

Birds of a feather or opposites attract?

Answer 29

Birds of a feather.