Attraction Flashcards
_________ is a major determinate of attractiveness. The closer someone is in space or time, the more likely a person will be attracted to them.
Proximity
People are more likely to become friends if they interact or see each other often. This is referred to as the ___________ effect.
Propinquity
The propinquity effect refers to the fact that people tend to become friends and lovers with people in close ________ to them.
proximity
People tend to like things more when they have increased exposure to that particular ________. For example, people tend to have an increased affection towards people they see often. This is known as mere exposure.
Stimulus
Physical appearance also plays a role in determining how much one person likes another. People tend to be _________ to good looking people.
Attracted
In women, large eyes, prominent cheekbones, high eyebrows, and a small chin have been found to be determinants of ______________. A similar set of characteristics determines which males females find more attractive.
Attractiveness
People tend to __________ beautiful people by associating certain desirable traits with beauty. Physical attractiveness is commonly associated with success, good social skills, and sexuality.
Stereotype
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder refers to the finding that the more people like someone, the more __________ they find them.
Attractive
When people have many ideas or aspects of __________ in common with another person, they tend to be attracted to that other person. This is due to a feeling of similarity between the two people.
Themselves
Explanation:
This is attributed towards a need for people to feel their ideas and opinions are validated by others. People are also likely to make negative associations with someone who disagrees with their ideas and opinions.
The _______________ theory suggests that rather than being attracted to people who share many common traits or aspects, people are attracted to those with opposite traits or aspects.
Complementarity
Explanation:
For example, a shy person may be attracted to an extrovert.
__________ liking refers to when people have an increased liking of people who like them in return.
Reciprocal
Even if a person disagrees with the ideas or opinions another person is expressing, if they determine that the other person _____ them, they are more inclined to like that person in return.
likes
___________ can affect the extent to which a person responds positively to another person who likes them. Those with a negative self- concept tend to respond less positively to someone who they know likes them as they feel undeserving of the friendly behavior.
Self-esteem
Explanation:
In some cases, the self- esteem of a person can exert an influence over how they respond to other people. People with low self- esteem tend to prefer to meet or talk with a person who has criticized them, rather than a person who has praised them.
People tend to like other people who initially ________ them but gradually began to like them, whereas they tend to dislike people who initially liked them but gradually began to like them less. This is referred to as the gain-loss effect.
Disliked
Explanation:
When a person feels that they have gained in favorability to someone else, they tend to like that person better. On the other hand, if they feel they have lost the other person’s favor, they tend to dislike that person.
Quality of ___________ appears to be a relatively unimportant predictor of romantic attraction between men and women, although, it is a strong predictor of whether a woman has a Platonic attraction to a man
conversation
A person’s opinion about a relationship they are in depends upon three factors according to the social exchange theory. These factors are: their perception of the costs and rewards of the relationship, the type of relationship they _______, and their chances for a better relationship with a different person.
Deserve
In a particular relationship, a person evaluates the amount of reward and Punishment they will receive from the relationship. This is known as the __________ level.
comparison
Explanation:
A person with a high comparison level will be unhappy if the relationship doesn’t match the comparison level, whereas, a person with a low comparison level is likely to be happy in the same relationship as their expectations are lower.
When a person thinks they have a good chance of leaving a relationship and meeting a person who will give them a better relationship, they have a ______ comparison level for alternatives than people who can see no better alternative, and thus remain in a costly relationship.
Higher
The ______ theory states that people are happiest and most stable in relationships in which each partner receives the same amount of rewards and costs, and contribute evenly towards the relationship.
Equity
When people experience intense longing and physiological _______ for another person, they are experiencing passionate love.
Arousal
Explanation:
When passionate love is returned, people feel great fulfillment and ecstasy. When passionate love is unrequited, people feel sadness and despair.
___________ love refers to when a person cares deeply for another person and feels intimacy and affection for the other person without necessarily any associated arousal or passion.
Companionate
Explanation:
This type of love is often experienced in nonsexual relationships such as close friendships.
The triangular theory of love states that _________ levels of intimacy, passion, and commitment result in different types of love
differing
Explanation:
Depending on how much of each love is present in the relationship determines what form of love the relationship is based on. For example, romantic love is a combination of intimacy and passion.
_________ love refers to relationships based predominantly on passion and Commitment.
Fatuous
Fatuous love does not include ________.
intimacy
_________ love is a combination of all three factors of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment.
Consummate
Love ______ refers to a range of basic theories people use to guide their behavior in relationships.
Styles
Eros is a type of love that is passionate and based heavily on ___________________. People experiencing eros love often become involved very quickly.
Physical attraction
Ludus love refers to love which is not taken very seriously. Ludic lovers tend to have ________ partners and are playful in their approach to love.
Multiple
_______ lovers tend to treat love as a game and although they do not intend to cause pain to others, they often do as they do not take love very seriously.
Ludic
It is hypothesized that in _______________ societies, of which Western societies tend to be associated, romantic love is an important basis for marriage.
Individualistic
People in ___________ societies tend to be self- sufficient, autonomous, and defined by their personal qualities. As a result, romantic love, which is seen as a personal experience, is very important in these societies.
individualistic
The __________ model examines the factors which determine a person’s commitment to a relationship. The factors include a person’s satisfaction with the relationship, their comparison level for other alternatives, and how much they have put into the relationship.
Investment
People with higher investments in a relationship are less likely to _____ the relationship.
leave
People in new relationships tend to form exchange relationships as interactions between the people are governed by a sense of ________. In these relationships, the rewards and costs for each partner tend to be equal.
Fairness
________ relationships are common for people who are in close relationships such as families, close friends, or romantic couples. In these relationships, a person responds to the needs of the other person regardless of whether they receive the same benefits in return.
Communal
The _______________ approach to love is based on the idea that men and women have evolved differences between what attracts one to the other as it increases their reproductive success.
Sociobiological
__________ styles refer to how people will behave in adult relationships based on their relationship with their primary caregiver when they were an infant.
Attachment
When an infant feels trust towards their caregiver, is unconcerned about ___________, and feel worthy and well liked, they have a secure attachment style.
Abandonment
________ infants tend to develop mature, lasting relationships later in life due to their experiences in infancy.
Secure
When an infant wants to be close to their caregiver yet suppresses this need, they have an _______________ style.
avoidant attachment
_________ infants tend to have difficulties forming close relationships and developing trust with partners.
Avoidant
Infants with an _____________ attachment style are usually taken care of by people who are inconsistent and overbearing with their affections.
anxious/ambivalent
Anxious/ambivalent infants have a desire to develop close attachments but are _________ their will not be returned.
anxious
According to the theory of relational __________, close relationships are always in a state of change.
Dialectics
Explanation:
Opposing forces within a relationship are constantly at war. As a result, the dynamics of a relationship are constantly changing. For example, two forces, autonomy and connection oppose each other. At times, people become close to their partner which results in a desire to pull away. However, as the distance increases, people feel the desire to become close again.
The ________ forces of novelty/predictability refer to the desire for excitement and newness in a relationship, versus the desire for predictability and security.
Opposing
Openness/closedness are opposing forces which refer to the _______ felt between people in a relationship when trying to determine how much information to share with each other.
Tension
People tend to feel jealousy when areas which relate most closely to their feelings of __________ are threatened.
Self-worth
Explanation:
For example, if a lover shows signs of romantic interest in someone else, a person tends to feel jealous. Similarly, if a person is out competed by someone else in a task which they enjoy or are good at, they tend to feel jealous.
According to the researcher Steve Duck, there are four steps in the process of relationship _________. These are: the intrapersonal, Dyadic, social, and a repeat of the intrapersonal.
dissolution
During the _______ phase of relationship dissolution, the person breaking up the relationship tends to confront the partner and the relationship is discussed. Any attempts to repair the relationship and reconcile are made during this stage.
dyadic
During the social phase of breaking up, people tend to initiate discussion of the break up with people close to them, and also begin to make up stories and accounts of the break up to be recounted to associates. They also begin to deal with the _________ of those close to them.
Reactions
The type of role a person plays in a break up determines what type of __________ their break up will be.
Experience
Explanation:
The role that a person plays in a relationship tends to predict the type of experience the break up will be for them. That is, whether it will be devastating or not. For example, people who initiate the break up tend to be the least upset, whereas people who are being broken up with tend to be more upset. If both people involved have a mutual role in the break up, that is, they both decide to break up, they tend to have an experience midway between the two extremes.
