Relationships

Question 1

What is an interpersonal relationship?

Answer 1

extended attachments between 2 or more individuals due to bonds of friendship, family, love, respect or hierarchy

Question 2

Why are relationships important?

Answer 2

Innate need to belong, stress reduction, cognitive clarity

Question 3

What did Harlow’s Monkey experiments reveal?

Answer 3

The monkeys preferred the mother that could provide comfort to the one that could provide food

Question 4

How do relationships help with stress reduction?

Answer 4

external threats triggers fear and motivates us to affiliate, particularly with those facing similar threat

Question 5

How do relationships help with cognitive clarity?

Answer 5

Others are a good source of what they’re about to face and help clarify our own thinking

Question 6

What are people who are painfully shy at risk for?

Answer 6

loneliness, isolation and social deprivation

Question 7

What is the evolutionary basis for need to belong?

Answer 7

social belonging is linked to survival and reproduction

Question 8

What is the universal basis for need to belong?

Answer 8

All cultures have similar types of social relationships and dynamic

Question 9

What is the social cognition basis for need to belong?

Answer 9

social relationships guide hoe we see ourselves, others and our surrondings

Question 10

What is the satiable basis for need to belong?

Answer 10

relationships are something we desire when we dont have the,but the need for relationships can be satisfied by finding new relationships

Question 11

What is the profound consequence basis for need to belong?

Answer 11

A lot of evidence that being cut off from others is bad for mental and physical health

Question 12

What is the consequence for social rejection?

Answer 12

higher level of chronic pain, ailments and pair during child birth, may cause feelings of shame and distress, may reduce ability to regulate behaviour

Question 13

What is the social exchange theory?

Answer 13

A theory based on the idea that how people feel about a relationship depends on their assessments of its costs and rewards

Question 14

What is the comparison level in the social exchange theory?

Answer 14

Expectations people have about what they should get out of a relationship

Question 15

What is the comparison level for alternatives in the social exchange theory?

Answer 15

Expectations people have about what they can get out of available alternative relationships

Question 16

What is the equity theory?

Answer 16

The idea that people are motivated to pursue fairness, or equity, in their relationships

Question 17

What are exchange relationships?

Answer 17

A relationship in which individuals feel little responsibility toward one another; giving and receiving are governed by concerns about equity and reciprocity

Question 18

What type of relationships are short terms usually?

Answer 18

exchange

Question 19

What is a communal relationship?

Answer 19

A relationship in which the individuals feel a special responsibility for one another and give and receive according to the principle of need

Question 20

What type of relationships are long terms usually?

Answer 20

communal

Question 21

What is attachment theory?

Answer 21

The idea that early attachments with parents and other caregivers can shape relationships for a person’s whole life

Question 22

What is the strange situation?

Answer 22

an experimental procedure where an infant’s reaction is observed after the mother leaves the child in a room with a stranger and then returns to the room

Question 23

What are the four distinct attachment styles?

Answer 23

secure, disorganized, avoidant and anxious

Question 24

What is a secure attachment style?

Answer 24

feel secure in relationships, comfortable with intimacy and desire to be close to others during times of stress

Question 25

What is anxious insecure attachment style?

Answer 25

feel secure in relationships, compulsively seek closeness but constantly worry about the relationship, during stress excessively try to get closer to others

Question 26

What is avoidant insecure attachment style?

Answer 26

feel insecure in relationships, feel the need to be completely self-reliant, prefer distance from others; during stress become detached and dismissive of others

Question 27

What is disorganized attachment style?

Answer 27

Inconsistent, unpredictable behaviour in relationships, difficulty trusting others and often linked to trauma or neglect in early life

Question 28

How do attachment styles affect relationships?

Answer 28

Secure attachment more likely to be married with fewer marital problems, avoidant most likely to breakup

Question 29

How does anxious attachment feel during temporary separations?

Answer 29

More fear and sadness

Question 30

How do attachment styles effect on life outcomes?

Answer 30

people with anxious attachment styles are more likely to have problems with drug abuse, alcoholism and eating disorders