Chapter 9 - Friendship And Love

Question 1

Paradox of close relationships

Answer 1

Both positive and negative intense feelings

Question 2

Initial attractions between strangers

Answer 2

Proximity
Familiarity - mere exposure effect
Physical attractiveness - not most important factor (kindness, humour, intelligence)

Question 3

Matching hypothesis

Answer 3

People of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other

Question 4

Resource exchange

Answer 4

Heterosexual dating, men trade occupational status for physical attractiveness in females

Question 5

Parental investment theory

Answer 5

Mating patterns depend on what each sex has to invest in terms of survival

Question 6

Viability of relationships

Answer 6

Reciprocal liking - liking those who show they like you

Similarity - drawn to those with similar qualities

Question 7

Relationship maintenance

Answer 7

Actions and activities used to sustain the desired quality of a relationship

Question 8

Interdependence or social exchange theory

Answer 8

Decision to stay in a relationship is based on cost benefit analysis of the relationships outcome

Question 9

Comparison level

Answer 9

Gauges relationship satisfaction, Personal standard of what constitutes acceptable balance of rewards and costs

Question 10

Commitment

Answer 10

Satisfaction - comparison levels for alternatives + investments

Question 11

Conflict in friendships

Answer 11

Reproach, remedy, acknowledgment

Question 12

Sternberg’s triangular theory of love

Answer 12

Loving relationships are comprised of intimacy, passion, commitment

Question 13

Consummate love

Answer 13

Intimacy, passion, commitment

Question 14

Liking

Answer 14

Intimacy

Question 15

Compassionate love

Answer 15

Intimacy and commitment

Question 16

Empty love

Answer 16

Commitment

Question 17

Fatuous love

Answer 17

Passion and commitment

Question 18

Infatuation

Answer 18

Passion

Question 19

Romantic love

Answer 19

Intimacy and passion

Question 20

Attachment styles based on

Answer 20

Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance

Question 21

Why relationships end

Answer 21

Premature commitment
Ineffective communication and conflict management
Boredom
Availability of more attractive relationships
Low level satisfaction

Question 22

Self defeating attributions style

Answer 22

Thinking negatively about social situations can cause people to behave in ways that confirm negative experiences

Question 23

Cyberball

Answer 23

Excluded by the other group
Felt relatively worse even after being rejected by the kkk
Lower self worth when rejected

Question 24

Need to belong

Answer 24

Important, innate, universal

Question 25

Social exclusion and pain

Answer 25

Same areas light up in brain on fMRI