ch13 Flashcards
people’s tendency to seek and find partners who are roughly at their own level of physical attractiveness.
matching hypothesis
in‐kind response to the behaviour of others
reciprocity
a stable, calm, and dependable kind of love that may include quite intimacy, stability, shared attitudes/values/life experiences, and high levels of self‐disclosure.
companionate love
when the arousal caused by one stimulus is added to the arousal from a second stimulus and the combined arousal is erroneously attributed to the second stimulus.
excitation transfer
an intense, exciting, and all‐consuming type of love, which includes constant thoughts about the person, powerful physical attraction, and intense communication.
passionate love
the expectations that a person has about a relationship partner, based largely on the person’s early experiences with his or her caregivers.
attachment styles
the notion that people tend to see their romantic partners as well as their relationships in highly idealized ways.
positive illusions
the theory that people’s satisfaction in a relationship is determined by the costs and rewards of the relationship
social exchange theory
the expected outcome of a relationship—the extent to which a person expects his or her relationship to be rewarding.
comparison level
a calculation regarding the expected benefits and costs that a person could receive from having a relationship with various other partners.
comparison level for alternatives (CLalt)
the resources devoted to a relationship that cannot be retrieved.
investment
the theory that relationship satisfaction depends on the ratio of costs and benefits for each partner in a relationship.
equity theory
a relatively common situation in which one partner is nagging, critical, and insistent about discussing the relationship problems, while the other partner is being withdrawn, silent, and defensive.
demand/withdraw interaction pattern
explaining a partner’s behaviour in negative ways
negative attributional traps
