Relationships Flashcards

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Evolutionary psychologists

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Psychologists that believe the psychological process that people use to chose their partner comes from evolution

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Natural selection

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The process where characteristics that make an individual more likely to reproduce and pass on their genes become more prevalent in a population

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Intra sexual selection

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Takes places when males compete and the winner is rewarded with a the female

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Inter sexual selection

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Takes place when males compete for the attention of a female

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Buss (1989) gender differences in males selection

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Questionnaires were sent to 10000males and 37 different cultural females and asked the questions about relationships
Men valued teh reproductive capacity (youth etc )
Females valued variables with gaining resources (money etc)

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Buss and Schmitt (1993) sexual strategies theroy

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Men and women have various strategies for choosing partners depending on the situation

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Weakness of the sexual strategies theory

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There were more similarities between men and women and other factors like intelligence were more important
Evolutionary expat do not take into account socail determinants of behaviour
Most studies where done on animals so can not be generalised

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Factors which affect attraction in romantic relationships

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Physical attractiveness
Self disclosure - information about someone

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Kerckhoff and Davis (1962) Filter theory 3 different stages

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Socail demographic filter - field of available
Similarity in attitudes filter - field pf desirables
Complementary filter- in the longer term relationships will progress if partners are fuelling each others needs

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Waltser et al 1996 computer dance study

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Computer dance was advertised and 367 men and women were paired up random,y the study showed that people prefer act Rivne’s regardless of their own attractiveness

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Taylor’s social penetration theroy (1973)

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Intimacy and closeness develop in relationships through a gradual process of self disclosure

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Joinson (2001) self disclosure in computer communication

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Student where asked to discuss and abstract dilemma and was conducted in three different conditions one face to face one on a computer chat from and another on a chat room with a camera in the XPRIZE t they found that self disclosure was much higher on chat then the other to conditions

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Public self awareness

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This is being aware of how other see you

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Private self awareness

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This is looking inwards being aware of what’s going on inside your head

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Gating

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A process that limit is how much we self disclose
Gates limit us to self disclose . Gates can be stuff such as apprentice , shyness , socail skills

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Why are virtual relationships stronger

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The absence of gating

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McKenna et al (2002) relationship formation on the internet

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Surveys were sent randomly to people participating in of a special interest forum and they were asked if they shared more online of offline and sent a follow up survey two years later
People who shared stuff more openly online developed internet relationships more quickly and half had met in real life after two year ones who had started romantic relationships online 71% were still in relationships

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Parasocial relationships

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This is the relationship an audience forms with a celebrity
They are one sided with one person knowing lots and the other knowning nothing

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McCutcheon three levels of parasocial relationships

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Entertainment social- where the relationship with the celebrity exists as a source of fun
Intense personal - obsessive thought being to arise with the celebrity
Borderline pathological- obsessive thoughts begin to become fully fledged fantasies and behaviours

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How does the attachment theory link to Parasocial relationship

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Attachment theory suggests that children which didn’t form close attachments with their charge givers may later devolved insecure attachments as adults which explains why they are more likely to be attracted to celebrities as it is one sided and little opportunity for rejection

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MCutcheon Absorption addiction model and the two stages

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The model suggests that people form these relationships when they have a weak sense of identity
Their are two stages :
Absorption-an individual becomes absorbed in following a celebrity
Addiction - the individual becomes more and more obsessed and this can lead to extreme behaviour like stalking this usually happens because of poor mental health

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Equity theory

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Says people thrive to achieve fairness in their relationship