Chapter 10: Relationships and Attraction Flashcards
What is a communal relationship?
A relationship in which the individuals feel a special responsibility for one another and give and recieve according to the principle of need. Such relationships are often long term.
- shared identity
- family and friends
What is an exchange relationship?
A relationship in which individuals feel little responsibility toward one another, giving and receiving are governed by concerns about equity and reciprocity. Such relationships are usually short term
- work relationship, salesmen, etc.
What is social exchange theory?
A theory based on the idea that how people feel about a relationship depends on their assessment of its costs and rewards.
What is comparison level?
Expectations people have about what they think they deserve or expect to get out of a relationship.
What is comparison level for alternatives?
Expecations people have about what they can get out of available, alternative relationships
What is equity theory?
The idea that people are moticated to pursue fairness, or equity, in their relationships. A relationship is considered equitable when the benefits are proportionate to the effort both people put into it.
What is attachment theory?
The idea that early attachment with aprents and other caregivers can shape relationships for a person’s whole life
What is anxiety dimension of attachment?
A facet of attachment that captures the degree to which a person is worried about rejection and abandonment by relationship partners
What is avoidance dimension of attachment?
A facet of attachment that captures the degree to which a person is comfortable with initmacy and dependence on relationship partners.
What is functional distance?
The influence of an architectual laout to encourage or inhibit certain activities, cinlduing contact between people.
What is mere exposure effect?
The idea that repeated exposure to stimulus, such as an object or a person, leads to greater liking of the stimulus
What is complementarity?
The tendency for people to seek out tohers with characteristics that are different from, and complement their own
What is the halo effect?
The common belief (accurate or not) that attractice individuals possess a host of positive quatlities beyonf their physical appearance
What is reproductive fitness?
the capacity to pass one’s genes on to subsequent generations
What is investment model of commitment?
a model of interpersonal relationships maintianing that three determinants make partners more committed to each other: relationship satisfaction, few alternative partners, and investments in the relationship
Why is it difficult to study relationships and attraction in social psychology?
- cannot ensure controlled lab conditions
- people self select they relationships they participate in