Social Psych Exam 3

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Interpersonal Attraction

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A person's attitude about another person. Attraction is expressed as a dimension that ranges from strong liking to strong feelings of dislike.

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Need for affiliation

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Basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships.

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Affect

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Persons emotional state- positive and negative feelings and moods

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Proximity

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In attraction research, the physical closeness between 2 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 2 people will come into repeated contact experiencing repeated exposure to one another, positive affect, and the development of mutual attraction

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Repeated exposure

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

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Mere exposure effect

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Another term for the repeated exposure effect emphasizing the fact that exposure to stimulus is all that is necessary to enhance that positive evaluation of the stimulus.

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Physical attractiveness

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

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Appearance anxiety

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Apprehension or worry about whether ones physical appearance is adequate and about the possible negative reactions of other people

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Similarity- dissimilarity effect

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Consistent finding that people respond positively to indications that another person is similar to themselves and negatively to indicate that another person is dissimilar from themselves

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Attitude similarity

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Extent to which 2 individuals share the same attitudes about a range of topics. In practice, the term also includes similarity of belief, values, and interests as well as attitudes

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Proportion of similarity

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Number of specific indicators that 2 people are similar divided by the number of specific indicators that 2 people are similar plus the number of specific indicators that they are dissimilar

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Repulsion Hypothesis

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Rosenbaum's provocative proposal that attraction is not increased by similar attitudes buy is simply decreased by dissimilar attitudes.

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Balance thoery

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The formulations of Heider and of Newcomb that specify the relationship among (1) an individual's liking for another person (2) his/her attitude about a given topic (3) the other persons attitudes about the same topic. Balance results in a positive emotional state. Imbalance results in a negative state and a desire to restore balance. Non balance leads to indifference.

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Adaptive response

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Any physical characteristics or behavioral tendency that enhances the odds of reproductive success for an individual or for other individuals with similar genes

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Affect - centered model of attraction

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Conceptual framework in which attraction is assumed to be based on positive and negative emotions. These emotions can be aroused directly by another person or simply associated with that person. The emotional arousal can also enhance or mitigated by cognitive process.