everything need to know

Question 1

strength of evolutionery explanations

Answer 1

strength-research support for inter sexual selection
-clark and hatfield
-found that females are moe selective when it comes to potential partners
-used male and female psychlogy students to go round uni campus asking 1 of 3 quesions
-would you go on a date with me 50 50
-would you g back to my aprtment 69 6
-woudl you have sex with me 75 0
-shows men want to impregante as many women as possible. Due to high sperm production and low energy required
also shows men are not as choosy as women. shows diffrence in mating strategies. supports due to women limited amount of egg cells produced in intervals
-howver, criticised for narrow sample (undergraduate studies) doesn’t represent all types of relatiosnshps
we dont know if non undergraduate students would be less selective

Question 1

strngth of evolutionery explanations

Answer 1

strength-supporting research for partner prefernces to anigosmoy(diffrences in sex cells) (gametes)
-buss conducted survey of over 10,000 adults
-33 countries
-asked questions about age
-variety of attributes thar evoultiery theory predicts is important in partner preference
-female mating prefernces-females placed greater value on resource-related charactristics e.g ambition
-male mating preferneces-placed more importance on good looks and preffreed younger mates more than females
-strength as 10,000 very large sample size
-findings reflect sex differences due to anigosmy
-findings can be applied hugely across different cultures

Question 2

equity theory

Answer 2

suggests partners are concerned about fairness of a relationship
-fairness cheived if they get what they deserve from relationship
rewards and costs do not matter, uts the ratio of the two to eachother which matters

Question 3

role of equity

Answer 3

what matters is that both partners level of profit(rewards-costs) are roughly the same
when there is lack of equity, one parter over benefits and the other under benefits
-recipe for disatifcation and unhappiness

Question 4

equity and equality

Answer 4

according to equity theoery, its not about size of rewards or costs its about ratio of the two to eachother
one partner puts lot in realtiosnhip and gets a lot back, fair enough
rewards are disrupted fairly not necesarily equal between partners

Question 5

strength of equity theory

Question 6

absorption addiction model

Answer 6

absortpion
addiction

Question 6

absorption

Answer 6

-seeking fulfilment in celbeirty worship
-motivates individual to focus attention as far as possible, on celebrity
-pre-occupided in there existance and identifywith them

Question 7

addiction

Answer 7

like a psychoactive drug
individual needs to sustain commitemnt in realtiosnhip
feeling strong and closer involvement
may lead to extreme behaviour
e.g stalking but stoped by manager

Question 8

social penetration theory

Answer 8

-gradul process of reavling more info about inner selg
-reciricoal exchange of info
-partner reveals perosnal info signals i trust you
-other partner reveals senstve infon
more disclosued, more penetration deeper into eachothers lives

Question 9

onion analogy

Answer 9

-realtiosnhip progresses, onion layer removed
-represents meaningful info
-occurs only if recipricaol
-makes strong realtosnhip with trust

Question 10

breadth and depth of self discolsure

Answer 10

both increase, more commitemernt
-at start, superficial info low risk
-breadth of discolsue narror as most topics off limit
-if spoke about classed as TMI
Too much info threatning realtiosnhip
eventially disclosure more high risk info e.g past experiences

Question 11

filter theory

Answer 11

criteria of 3 social demography, similarity in attitudes and complamentairy

Question 12

social demography

Answer 12

wind range of factors which may influence two people meeting eachother
-geographical loaction (proximity)
-social class
-level of education
-religion
-ethnic gorup

Question 13

simialrity in attitudes

Answer 13

ides we go for those of simialr values #discount those who differ in values from us

Question 14

complementaity

Answer 14

simialirty doesnt matter as much
what matters is more is sharing traits with eachother balancing traits with opppsite ones of your own

Question 15

SET

Answer 15

social econmic theory-an econmic therory on how reltiosnhsips are formed and devoped
-partner tends to strive to maximse rewards (companision ship, and support) and minimise costs (arguments, time commitmernts)

Question 16

rewards costs and profits

Answer 16

rewards and costs are subjective
waht some may see as costly, other may see as low cost or even rewards
rewwards and costs value may chnage through course of relatiosnip, might become less as time goes on

Question 17

comparison level

Answer 17

how much reward a person feels they should get out of a realtiosnjp
more sophisticed with experience
also may be influenced by social factors e,g tv programmes and books
based on self esteem
high self esteem=high expectaions
low self esteem=low expectations

Question 18

comparison level of alternatives

Answer 18

perception of whether other relatiosnships or staying on won would bt more rewarding then current realtiosnhip
-a person tends to stay if there realtiosnhip is more rewarding then alternatives
-if cost outweighs rewards, alternatives become more attractive
-duck argues if content, less liekly to notice avaliable alternataives

Question 19

strength

Answer 19

suppoting research for social exchange theory
-sprencher forund that comparison of alternatives was strong predictor of commiment and reards strong predictor of satisfaction. strength as shows people evaluate their realtiosnhips based on SET
-suggests idea that people stay in realtiosnhip if more preofitable then alternatievs

Question 20

equity theory

Answer 20

economic theory that suggests people concerned with fairness of a relationship
-fairness acheived if people get what they deserve in relaitosnhip
-not rewards or costs that matter, but the ratio of the to eachother

Question 21

role of equity

Answer 21

-equity means fainress
-matters most if profit (rewards-costs) is roughly the same
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Question 22

reasosn for using online insetad of face to face

Answer 22

anonymity asccociated with virtual realtiosnships
people tned to hod off saying personal info onlune fir fear or rejection
unless confident info wont be leaked

Question 23

hyperpersonal model

Answer 23

walter
argues onlune realtiosnships can be perosnal and involve greater self-discolsure
beause vvirtual relatiosnhips can be made quicky, so peolle will self-disclose faster
more intese and intimate early on
-can aslso end quickly
-accoring to hyperpersonal model,sender has more time to maipulate image then face to face
-people have more control of what to send and disclose

Question 23

strangers on the train effect

Answer 23

more liekly to discole info to someone we will never meet again