Chapter 7 Flashcards
Market pricing
A form of exchange in which everyone gets out in proportion to what they put in
Authority ranking
A form of exchange in which goods are divided according to a person’s status in group
Self-disclosure
The sharing of intimate information about oneself
Social support
Emotional, material, or informational assistance provided by other people
Proximity-attraction principle
The tendency to become friends with those who live or work nearby
Mere exposure effect
The tendency to feel positively toward people, places, or things we have seen frequently
Communal sharing
A form of exchange in which members of a group share a pool of resources, taking when they are in need and giving when others are in need
Domain-general model
A model that attempts to explain a wide range of different behaviors according to a simple general rule (such as “do it if it’s rewarding)
Health psychology
The study of behavioral andpsychological factors that affect illness
Equality matching
A form of exchange in which each person gets the same as the others
Domain-specific models
A model that presumes that the governing principles vary from one domain of behavior to another (such as friend vs romance vs parent-child relationships)
Reinforcement-affect model
The theory that we like people with whom we associate positive feelings and dislike those with whom me associate negative feelings
Social capital
Assets that can be drawn from one’s network of personal relationships
Equity
A state of affairs in which one person’s benefits and costs from a relationship are proportional to the benefits and costs incurred by his or her partner
Social exchange
The trading of benefits within relationships
