unit four social psych

Question 1

Interpersonal attraction

Answer 1

Desire to approach other people

Question 2

Need to belong

Answer 2

Need to interact with others and be socially accepted

Question 3

Social comparison

Answer 3

Comparing ourselves with similar others to know ourselves and understand our place in the social environment

Question 4

Social exchange

Answer 4

Seeking and maintaining relationships where rewards exceed costs and terminate when costs are greater than rewards

Question 5

Tendency to seek out others

Answer 5

Inherited trait that helps us survive and reproduce

Question 6

anxiety-affiliation effect

Answer 6

misery loves only miserable company

Question 7

cognitive clarity

Answer 7

prefer someone who has experienced fearful event and can tell us what to anticipate

Question 8

attractiveness stereotype

Answer 8

tendency to attribute positive qualities and desirable characteristics to attractive people

Question 9

radiation effect

Answer 9

a person of average attractiveness tends to be rated as more attractive when they are paired with someone who is highly attractive

Question 10

matching hypothesis

Answer 10

the tendency to develop relationships with people who are approximately as attractive as we are

Question 11

illusion of transparency

Answer 11

the tendency of individuals to believe that how they feel is much more apparent to others than is really the case

Question 12

Intimacy

Answer 12

Sharing that which is inmost with others
incorporation of other into one’s self image

Question 13

communal relationship

Answer 13

relationships in which people’s primary concern is being responsive to the other person’s needs

Question 14

Attachment

Answer 14

Inborn, adaptive response; pattern of protest, despair, and detachment

Question 15

Attachment styles

Answer 15

Secure, preoccupied, dismissing-avoidant, fearful-avoidant
influence romantic relationships and stem from childhood

Question 16

Self-disclosure

Answer 16

Revealing personal information about oneself to others

Question 17

Gender differences in friendships

Answer 17

Women’s friendships tend to be more intimate, men more emotionally open in cross-sex relationships

Question 18

Romantic Relationships

Answer 18

Culture shapes how we think about romantic love, passionate love, companionate love

Question 19

Schacter’s Two-Factor Theory of Emotion

Answer 19

the idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self-perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it

Question 20

companionate love

Answer 20

the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

Question 21

equity theory

Answer 21

the idea that people are happiest with relationships in which the rewards and costs experienced by both parties are roughly equal

Question 22

Relationship endurance and dissolutions

Answer 22

Social disapproval, equity theory, self-esteem, positive illusions, coping strategies, romantic breakups