Chapter 7: Liking Loving And Other Relationships Flashcards
7.1 describe the psychological factors that causes us to like others 7.2 explain how frequency of exposure and physical attractiveness enhance interpersonal attractions 7.3 list factors that lead individual's to like or dislike each other 7.4 describe 3 main types of close relationship formed by people.
What is an attachment style
It’s the ways in which we form emotional bonds and regulate our emotions in close relationship.
What is self disclosure
Revealing our innermost thoughts and feelings
What is direct effect
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
What is association effect
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.
What is the repeated exposure effect
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.
What is the what is beautiful is good effect
It’s the assumption that highly attractive people possess desirable traits.
What are the steps of the beautiful is good effect according to Lemay Clark and Greenberg
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
What does the similarity hypothesis state
The more similar 2 people are the more they tend to like each other.
What is meant by complimentaries
They are differences when combined help to make individual parts work well or complement each other.
What is the similarity-dissimilaity effect
The tendency for similarity to arouse positive feelings and dissimilarity to arouse negative feelings.
What is attitude similarity
The extent to which 2 people share the same ways of thinking or feeling towards something or someone else.
What is the matching hypothesis
The tendency to choose partners who are similar to ourselves in physical attractiveness even though we’d prefer very attractive ones.
What is implicit egotism
Means that people’s association with something about themselves do increase attractions towards others who share them.
What is interpersonal attraction
Refers to evaluation we make of other people and the negative or positive attitudes we form about them.
What is proximity
The nearness to each other on physical space that leads to the repeated exposure effect. Which also provides familiarity and increased attraction.
What does the balance theory suggests
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.
What does the social comparison theory state
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.
What are social skills
A combination of aptitudes that help individuals who possess them to interact effectively with others increasing people liking of them
List 4 social skills
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.
What are is the big 5 factor personality theory
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neutism
What is narcissism
Having an inflated view of oneself or extreme and unjustified high self esteem.
What is love
It is a combination of emotions cognition and behaviour that play a crucial role in relationship.
What are the 3 components of love according to Sternberg’s triangular model of love
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.
What is consummate love
The result of a relationship having all 3 components of love that are equally strong and balanced.
What is companionate love
Love based on friendship mutual attraction shared interests respect and concern for others welfare.
What is passionate love
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.
What is are 2 factors that can destroy romantic love
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.
What is attachment style
The degree of security an individual feels in interpersonal relationships.
What are the 2 factors that determine ones attachment style
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.
What are the 4 attachment styles
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.
What are close friendship
Long term friendships that involves interacting in different situations providing mutual social and emotional support and engaging in self disclosure.
