Attraction

Question 1

_________ is a major determinate of attractiveness. The closer someone is in space or time, the more likely a person will be attracted to them.

Answer 1

Proximity

Question 2

People are more likely to become friends if they interact or see each other often. This is referred to as the ___________ effect.

Answer 2

Propinquity

Question 3

The propinquity effect refers to the fact that people tend to become friends and lovers with people in close ________ to them.

Answer 3

proximity

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Stimulus

Question 5

Physical appearance also plays a role in determining how much one person likes another. People tend to be _________ to good looking people.

Answer 5

Attracted

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Attractiveness

Question 7

People tend to __________ beautiful people by associating certain desirable traits with beauty. Physical attractiveness is commonly associated with success, good social skills, and sexuality.

Answer 7

Stereotype

Question 8

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder refers to the finding that the more people like someone, the more __________ they find them.

Answer 8

Attractive

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Complementarity

Explanation:

For example, a shy person may be attracted to an extrovert.

Question 11

__________ liking refers to when people have an increased liking of people who like them in return.

Answer 11

Reciprocal

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

likes

Question 13

___________ 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.

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

conversation

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Deserve

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Higher

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Equity

Question 20

When people experience intense longing and physiological _______ for another person, they are experiencing passionate love.

Answer 20

Arousal

Explanation:

When passionate love is returned, people feel great fulfillment and ecstasy. When passionate love is unrequited, people feel sadness and despair.

Question 21

___________ 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.

Answer 21

Companionate

Explanation:

This type of love is often experienced in nonsexual relationships such as close friendships.

Question 22

The triangular theory of love states that _________ levels of intimacy, passion, and commitment result in different types of love

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

_________ love refers to relationships based predominantly on passion and Commitment.

Answer 23

Fatuous

Question 24

Fatuous love does not include ________.

Answer 24

intimacy

Question 25

_________ love is a combination of all three factors of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment.

Answer 25

Consummate

Question 26

Love ______ refers to a range of basic theories people use to guide their behavior in relationships.

Answer 26

Styles

Question 27

Eros is a type of love that is passionate and based heavily on ___________________. People experiencing eros love often become involved very quickly.

Answer 27

Physical attraction

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

Multiple

Question 29

_______ 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.

Answer 29

Ludic

Question 30

It is hypothesized that in _______________ societies, of which Western societies tend to be associated, romantic love is an important basis for marriage.

Answer 30

Individualistic

Question 31

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.

Answer 31

individualistic

Question 32

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.

Answer 32

Investment

Question 33

People with higher investments in a relationship are less likely to _____ the relationship.

Answer 33

leave

Question 34

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.

Answer 34

Fairness

Question 35

________ 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.

Answer 35

Communal

Question 36

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.

Answer 36

Sociobiological

Question 37

__________ styles refer to how people will behave in adult relationships based on their relationship with their primary caregiver when they were an infant.

Answer 37

Attachment

Question 38

When an infant feels trust towards their caregiver, is unconcerned about ___________, and feel worthy and well liked, they have a secure attachment style.

Answer 38

Abandonment

Question 39

________ infants tend to develop mature, lasting relationships later in life due to their experiences in infancy.

Answer 39

Secure

Question 40

When an infant wants to be close to their caregiver yet suppresses this need, they have an _______________ style.

Answer 40

avoidant attachment

Question 41

_________ infants tend to have difficulties forming close relationships and developing trust with partners.

Answer 41

Avoidant

Question 42

Infants with an _____________ attachment style are usually taken care of by people who are inconsistent and overbearing with their affections.

Answer 42

anxious/ambivalent

Question 43

Anxious/ambivalent infants have a desire to develop close attachments but are _________ their will not be returned.

Answer 43

anxious

Question 44

According to the theory of relational __________, close relationships are always in a state of change.

Answer 44

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.

Question 45

The ________ forces of novelty/predictability refer to the desire for excitement and newness in a relationship, versus the desire for predictability and security.

Answer 45

Opposing

Question 46

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.

Answer 46

Tension

Question 47

People tend to feel jealousy when areas which relate most closely to their feelings of __________ are threatened.

Answer 47

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.

Question 48

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.

Answer 48

dissolution

Question 49

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.

Answer 49

dyadic

Question 50

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.

Answer 50

Reactions

Question 51

The type of role a person plays in a break up determines what type of __________ their break up will be.

Answer 51

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.