relationships and attachment

Question 1

I only have eyes for you study

Answer 1

eyes moved away more quickly from attractive, opposite- sex people in romantic love condition

Question 2

love-based

Answer 2

levels of romantic love decrease drastically after five years

Question 3

arranged marriages

Answer 3

levels of romantic love increased until 10 years than levels out

Question 4

tracked marriage couples for 14 years study

Answer 4

• negative affect reciprocity
• wife demand husband withdraw
• both behaviors significant predictors of divorce
• less WDHW when talking abut event of the day

Question 5

negative affect reciprocity

Answer 5

back-and-forth retaliatory negativity during conflict

Question 6

Wife-demand-husband-withdraw (WDHW)

Answer 6

wife criticizes husband, husband “stonewalls” (i.e., withdraws from the interaction)

Question 7

emotional reappraisal

Answer 7

evaluating previous conflicts from the other persons perspective, or as an outside observer

Question 8

emotional reappraisal study

Answer 8

increased marital quality for couples after reappraisal intervention began

Question 9

4 category attachment model

Answer 9

secure, anxious/ambivalent, dismissing-avoidant and fearful-avoidant

Question 10

secure attachment

Answer 10

confident and emotional attachment
-positive view of self and others

Question 11

anxious/ambivalent attachment

Answer 11

associated with neediness, clinging, ambivalent feelings
- negative view of self, positive view of others

Question 12

dismissing-avoidant attachment

Answer 12

associated with self-reliance, fear of intimacy, rejection sensitivity, and emotional distance
- positive view of self, negative view of other

Question 13

fearful-avoidant attachment

Answer 13

combo of insecure attachment styles, with alternating strategies, associated with trauma/abandonment
- negative view of self and others

Question 14

two dimension attachment models

Answer 14

• abandonment anxiety
• discomfort with closeness
• dimensions used to predict level of attachment security

Question 15

attachment style in relationship: secure

Answer 15

health/stability

Question 16

attachment style in relationship: insecure

Answer 16

• more negative affect, anger and conflict
• difficulty expressing own feelings during conflict
• difficulty interpreting other’s feelings

Question 17

monkey study

Answer 17

secure base and safe haven
- monkeys choose cloth mother over wire monkey with food

Question 18

sheep study

Answer 18

injected oxycontin into sheep - made mother sheep elicit nurturing behavior to lambs

Question 19

prairie vole study (oxycontin)

Answer 19

blocked oxycontin and they didn’t want to hangout with partner anymore

Question 20

social support network

Answer 20

group of friends and family that can be relied on for comfort and support
- associated with happiness, physical health and mental health

Question 21

Prairie voles develop anxiety/depression when raised in…

Answer 21

isolation
-can be prevented by environmental enrichment

Question 22

Rat Park Study

Answer 22

rats living in enriched environment drank significantly less morphine
- suggests addiction is about more than mere exposure to drugs
- less social contact = more consumption

Question 23

Prairie Voles “drinking buddies”

Answer 23

high drinkers drank less during pairing with low drinker and second isolation

Question 24

Dogs social skills study

Answer 24

dogs are better at locating something with human cue than chimpanzees
- dogs can also discriminate whether a person can see them
- chimps can find food using non-social cues, past searches, means-ends tasks

Question 25

proposed theories for dog’s superiority with human social skills

Answer 25

• enculturation: domesticated dogs learn from humans
• inherited through wolves
• evolved during domestication

Question 26

emotional reactivity hypothesis

Answer 26

human social skills developed as by product of selection on social-emotional systems
- chimps found hidden food only when humans were competitors

Question 27

tentative theory explaining social skills

Answer 27

modern human societies evolved through a form of self-domestication
- human-like temperament and selected trait