recall relaitonships Flashcards
sexual selctions
explains why some certainly disavnatagus charcteristics from an evolutionery point of view are still passed on
this is because may be adavnatgous for sexual selction
e.g males who behave agressively more liekly to protect femsle from competing males
anignosy-differences beterern female and male sex cells
sperm cell
ernergtically cheap
extrenly small
highly mobile
egg cell
energteically expnsive
relativly large
ststic
inter sexucal selction
prefered female strategy
quality over wuanity approach
favoured by females as place greater investemnt in time, resourecs for rasing child then males
mae sure male is right genetic fit, by porving and willing to provide resources for her and child
egg cells are produced in limited numbers i intervals
filter theory
explanation of relaitonship formation
suggests we sift through seevral filters to sit through potenital partners till choose the right oen
social demogrpahy-wide range of factors whichinfleunce potential partnes meeting in first place e
e.g georgphiscal location (proximity)
social class
religion
ethnic group
simailrity in attitudes-find it attracit ehn person shares same beleivs/values to us
discount those people wh differ in values/beleifs from us
complementairy-later stage of relaitonship, simailrity becoems less important
balance out traits with opposite ones of their own
phsycical attractivness
shackefold and larson foudn that those with symetrical face rated as more attc=ractive as honet signal for gentic fitness (hard to fake)
also found those with baby face feautues e.g wide, large eyes, delicate chin and small nose seen as more attraive as trigger protective instinct-imporatnt for females wantint to reporduce
halo effect-tenady to assoicate highly attractive people with pre-concievd disportantily postiev charcetiertis e.g wealth
associte attractive poepl as being socialble, kind in cpmaprison to unattrace people
make u even more attraed to them-self fulffiling prosepheracy
matching hypotheiss-states we tend to go for romancit partnerrs of simialr sttractiveess to us
we srie highl attractive poeple for evolutionery reasns but this balance against wish to avoid rejection due to out of our league, not fnding us ohsyically attractive
difference between what we see as an ideal partner adn what we are prepared to settle for
self disclsoure
revealing personal info about youself
as relaitonship develops, reveal more, strengthening romantic bond
social penetration theory-gradual process of revealing personal info
romantic relaitonships,partner reveals something personal signally i trust you
to go fruther, other partner must then reveal senstive info back
as reveal more, penetrate moer into achothers lives, gathering greater undertanding of achother
onion analogy-as relaitonship progess, more layers of onion removed representing deeper meaninful info being disclosed
needs to be reciporcial i.e perosn repsonds with empahty and reveals info about themseles creating relaitonship more on trust and commitment
breadth and depth of self disclosure-as both increase, become more commited to eachother
easrly stage, what we reveal is superficial meaning on the surfce and low risk, wuld reveal to anyone e.g freinds family
breadth of self discloure is narrow as most topics are off limits
reveal oo much too soon, reponse of tmi, too much info, threatning relaitonship before really started
ed, we reveal more hugh risk info e,g past exerinces, traumas etc
