Social ch7 (w6-a)

Question 1

need for affiliation

Answer 1

The basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships.

• people differ in need to affirmative due to mostly genetics
• Need for affirmation is innate
• external events can create need for affirmation, especially like natural disasters

Question 2

proximity effect

Answer 2

In attraction research, the physical closeness between two individuals with respect to where they live, where they sit in a classroom, where they work, and so on. The smaller the physical distance, the greater the probability that the two people will come into repeated contact experiencing repeated exposure to one another, positive affect, and the development of mutual attraction.

Question 3

physical attractiveness

Answer 3

The combination of characteristics that are evaluated as beautiful or handsome at the positive extreme and as unattractive at the negative extreme.

Question 4

repeated exposure effect

Answer 4

Zajonc’s finding that frequent contact with any mildly negative, neutral,
or positive stimulus results in an increasingly positive evaluation of that stimulus.

Question 5

Attractive

Answer 5

• ## we like attractive people as more healthy, intelligent and so on

Question 6

What is attractive?

Answer 6

1) for women it’s either cute or mature
2) for m it’s masculinity
- the average face is attractive one

Question 7

what can increase an attractiveness

Answer 7

-a color red can increase attractiveness
the experiment with background
-similarity also increase attractiveness and predicts good relationships

Question 8

similarity–dissimilarity effect

Answer 8

people react positively if someone is similar to hem and negative is someone is different

Question 9

Attitude similarity

Answer 9

-we find people who have similar attitudes and values more fun but also more intelligent and informed

Question 10

proportion of similarity

Answer 10

The number of specific indicators that two people are similar divided by the number of specific indicators that two people are similar plus the number of specific indicators that they are dissimilar.

Question 11

repulsion hypothesis

Answer 11

• alternative to the similarity–dissimilarity effect

- it states that similarities do not affect people in a positive way, but dissimilarities unatract people

Question 12

matching hypothesis

Answer 12

—the idea that although we would prefer to obtain extremely attractive romantic partners, we generally focus on obtaining ones whose physical beauty is about the same as our own.

Question 13

balance theory

Answer 13

-people organize their likes and dislikes in a simetrical manre
- like+ similar outitudes–> pleasant
- like but not similar–> unpleasant
If it is unplesant people either change altitudes or change someone else

Question 14

social comparison theory

Answer 14

you compare your attitudes and beliefs with those of others because the only way you can evaluate the accuracy of your views and their “normality” is by finding that other people agree with you

Question 15

interpersonal trust

Answer 15

interpersonal trust
An attitudinal dimension underlying attachment styles that involves the belief that other people are generally trustworthy, dependable, and reliable as opposed to the belief that others are generally untrustworthy, undependable, and unreliable. This is the most successful and most desirable attachment style.