Chapter 7: Liking Loving And Other Relationships

Question 1

What is an attachment style

Answer 1

It’s the ways in which we form emotional bonds and regulate our emotions in close relationship.

Question 2

What is self disclosure

Answer 2

Revealing our innermost thoughts and feelings

Question 3

What is direct effect

Answer 3

When someone says or does something that makes you feel good or bad and where you like one who makes you feel good and dislike those who make you feel bad

Question 4

What is association effect

Answer 4

Liking or disliking someone is influence by unrelated events. Other people is present during emotional state is aroused by something. Person isn’t responsible for your feelings but tend to evaluate them positively when feeling good and negatively when feeling bad.

Question 5

What is the repeated exposure effect

Answer 5

The more often we are exposed to a new stimulus the more favorable our evaluation tends to become which is subtle and one may be unaware of it.

Question 6

What is the what is beautiful is good effect

Answer 6

It’s the assumption that highly attractive people possess desirable traits.

Question 7

What are the steps of the beautiful is good effect according to Lemay Clark and Greenberg

Answer 7

We desire to relationships with attractive people and desire leads us to perceive them as interperonally responsive in return as kinder more outgoing and warmer. We project our own desire to form relationship with them and it’s this projection that generates positive perception of them

Question 8

What does the similarity hypothesis state

Answer 8

The more similar 2 people are the more they tend to like each other.

Question 9

What is meant by complimentaries

Answer 9

They are differences when combined help to make individual parts work well or complement each other.

Question 10

What is the similarity-dissimilaity effect

Answer 10

The tendency for similarity to arouse positive feelings and dissimilarity to arouse negative feelings.

Question 11

What is attitude similarity

Answer 11

The extent to which 2 people share the same ways of thinking or feeling towards something or someone else.

Question 12

What is the matching hypothesis

Answer 12

The tendency to choose partners who are similar to ourselves in physical attractiveness even though we’d prefer very attractive ones.

Question 13

What is implicit egotism

Answer 13

Means that people’s association with something about themselves do increase attractions towards others who share them.

Question 14

What is interpersonal attraction

Answer 14

Refers to evaluation we make of other people and the negative or positive attitudes we form about them.

Question 15

What is proximity

Answer 15

The nearness to each other on physical space that leads to the repeated exposure effect. Which also provides familiarity and increased attraction.

Question 16

What does the balance theory suggests

Answer 16

It suggests that people naturally organise their likes/ dislikes in a symmetrical way where people liking each other are in a state of balance and disliking causing state of imbalance and when there is indifference a state of non balance.

Question 17

What does the social comparison theory state

Answer 17

It states that we compare our attitudes and beliefs with those of others because the only way you can evaluate the accuracy of your views and their normality is by finding other people agree with you.

Question 18

What are social skills

Answer 18

A combination of aptitudes that help individuals who possess them to interact effectively with others increasing people liking of them

Question 19

List 4 social skills

Answer 19

Social astuteness: the capacity to perceive and understand others traits feelings and intentions accurately. People high on this dimension recognise subtleties of interpersonal interactions.

Interpersonal influence: the ability to change others attitudes or behaviours by using a variety of techniques like persuasion.

Social adaptability: capacity to adapt to a wide range of social situations and to interact effectively with a wide range of people.

Expressiveness: the ability to show emotions openly in a form that others can readily perceive.

Question 20

What are is the big 5 factor personality theory

Answer 20

Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neutism

Question 21

What is narcissism

Answer 21

Having an inflated view of oneself or extreme and unjustified high self esteem.

Question 22

What is love

Answer 22

It is a combination of emotions cognition and behaviour that play a crucial role in relationship.

Question 23

What are the 3 components of love according to Sternberg’s triangular model of love

Answer 23

Intimacy: closeness 2 people feel and strength of bond that holds them together where they are concerned with each other welfare and happiness. They value like count on understand each other.

Passion: based on romance physical attraction and sexuality which are sexual motives and excitement associated with relationship.

Commitment: represent cognitive factors like decision to love and be with someone plus a commitment to maintain relationships on permanent basis.

Question 24

What is consummate love

Answer 24

The result of a relationship having all 3 components of love that are equally strong and balanced.

Question 25

What is companionate love

Answer 25

Love based on friendship mutual attraction shared interests respect and concern for others welfare.

Question 26

What is passionate love

Answer 26

The experience of intense emotional responses to another person.

It may be unrequited love when it’s felt by one person who doesn’t display love in return.

Question 27

What is are 2 factors that can destroy romantic love

Answer 27

Jealously which is a powerful emotion triggered by threats to our self esteem when we fear that someone we love or care about will desert us for a rival.

Adultery where one betrays partner with someone else.

Question 28

What is attachment style

Answer 28

The degree of security an individual feels in interpersonal relationships.

Question 29

What are the 2 factors that determine ones attachment style

Answer 29

Self esteem based on the behaviour and emotional reactions of caregiver provided to infant

Interpersonal trust based on caregiver being perceived by infant as trustworthy dependable and reliable.

Question 30

What are the 4 attachment styles

Answer 30

Secure attachment style: person is high on self esteem and interpersonal trust. They are best able to form lasting committed satisfying relationship

Fearful avoidant attachment style is where individuals tend to not form close relationship or have unhappy ones

Preoccupied attachment style individuals seek closeness and readily form relationship. They cling to others and expect them later to be rejected being seen as unworthy.

Dismissing attachment style a person is high on self esteem and low on interpersonal trust. they believe they deserve good relationships but feel they don’t need close relationship with others.

Question 31

What are close friendship

Answer 31

Long term friendships that involves interacting in different situations providing mutual social and emotional support and engaging in self disclosure.