Attraction Flashcards
Propinquity
Physical proximity.
Sociometric Survey
A survey that attempts to measure the interpersonal relationships in a group of people.
Functional Distance
An architectural layout’s tendency to encourage or inhibit certain activities, like contact between people.
Counterbalancing
A methodological procedure used to ensure that any extraneous variable that might influence the dependent measure is distributed equally across experimental conditions.
Mere Exposure Effect
The finding that repeated exposure to a stimulus leads to greater liking of the stimulus.
Fluency
The experience of ease associated with perceiving and thinking.
Complementarity
The tendency for people to seek out others with characteristics that are different from and that complement their own.
Halo Effect
The common belief-accurate or not-that attractive individuals possess a host of positive qualities beyond their physical appearances.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
The tendency for people to act in ways that bring about the very thing they expect to happen.
Reproductive Fitness
The capacity to get one’s genes passed on to subsequent generations.
Intrasex Competition
Direct competition between two or more males or two or more females for access to members of the opposite sex.
Intersex Attraction
The interest in and attraction toward a member of the opposite sex.
Social Exchange Theory
A theory based on the fact that there are costs and rewards in all relationships and that how people feel about a relationship depends on their assessments of its costs and rewards and the costs and rewards available to them in other relationships.
Equity Theory
A theory that maintains that people are motivated to pursue fairness, or equity, in their relationships, with rewards and costs shared roughly equally among individuals.
