attraction

Question 1

a desire to approach another individual and seek them out for interaction, critical to friendships and romantic relationships =

Answer 1

interpersonal attraction

Question 2

what are the attributes people have that make them attractive to us?

Answer 2

physical characteristics, similarity to self, complementary characteristics

Question 3

what is the main cultural difference of physical characteristics?

Answer 3

larger women preferred in Ghana compared to US, maybe because slim women preferred where reliable food supply

Question 4

what are the physical characteristic commonalities across cultures?

Answer 4

wait to hip ratio of 0.7, youthfulness, health, fertility, face symmetry, average faces, face maturity (immature features for females are more attractive and mature features are more attractive for males)

Question 5

according to evolutionary psychologists what does a symmetrical face indicate?

Answer 5

physical health that is important to produce healthy offspring

Question 6

what has research found with slightly feminised male faces?

Answer 6

perceived as most attractive

Question 7

what has research (Dion et al) shown that attractive people are assumed to have?

Answer 7

more socially desirable personality traits and better future prospects (idea of ‘what is beautiful is good’)

Question 8

attractive people may be more confident and have better social skills because the people they interact with treat them as such =

Answer 8

self fulfilling prophecy

Question 9

people are generally attracted to those who are _____ to us

Answer 9

similar (similar demographics and beliefs)

Question 10

what is the matching hypothesis

Answer 10

we don’t just have a tendency to be drawn to those who are physically attractive but tendency to prefer those who are SIMILAR IN ATTRACTIVENESS

Question 11

why might people prefer those who are similar to them in attractiveness?

Answer 11

may estimate those who are similarly attractive have similar attitudes to them which reduces risk of dealing with rejection

Question 12

Murstein (1972) found that physically similar couples are _____ intimate and report _____ love than dissimilar looking couples

Answer 12

more, greater

Question 13

what did Carli et al (1991) find about roommates?

Answer 13

people have a preference for similarly attractive roommates

Question 14

what are the explanations for the matching hypothesis and similarity to self?

Answer 14

balance theory, social comparison, evolutionary explanation

Question 15

people try to maintain a sense of balance or cognitive consistency in their thoughts, feelings and social relationships =

Answer 15

balance theory

Question 16

how might social comparisons explain why people prefer those similar to themselves?

Answer 16

we prefer those who agree to us as people who disagree with us may cause us to doubt our beliefs and therefore our sense of self

Question 17

how might the evolutionary explanation explain why we prefer those similar to ourselves?

Answer 17

unconsciously attracted to similar others because they share similar genes > increasing the probability that genes similar to our own will be passed on to future generations

Question 18

what is the evidence for complementary characteristics?

Answer 18

we are attracted to those with traits we don’t have but would like to have e.g. confidence

Question 19

which factor has evidence for being most important in attractiveness for men?

Answer 19

beauty

Question 20

which factor has evidence for being most important in attractiveness for women?

Answer 20

social status

Question 21

what are the 5 stages in the development of a relationship?

Answer 21

initiation > experimenting > intensifying > integrating > bonding

Question 22

first interaction with partner = which stage of Knapp’s relationship development model?

Answer 22

initiation

Question 23

testing suitability and reducing uncertainty = which stage of Knapp’s relationship development model?

Answer 23

experimenting

Question 24

self disclosure increases, starting to get more serious, use the word ‘us’ = which stage of Knapp’s relationship development model?

Answer 24

intensifying

Question 25

when a couple have a shared identity = which stage of Knapp’s relationship development model?

Answer 25

integrating

Question 26

becoming officially in a relationship = which stage of Knapp’s relationship development model?

Answer 26

bonding