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24 Cards in this Set
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Close relationships |
Relationships that are important, interdependent, and long lasting. |
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Paradox of close relationships |
Close relationships can arouse intense feelings – both positive and negative. |
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Attraction |
The initial desire to form relationship |
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Proximity, familiarity, and physical attractiveness |
What are the three factors that stand out in what draws two strangers together as either friends or lovers? |
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Proximity |
Refers to geographic, residential, and other forms of spatial closeness |
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The mere exposure effect |
An increase in positive feelings toward a novel stimulus (person) based on frequent exposure to it |
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Intelligence, humor, honesty, kindness, physical attractiveness |
In a 2005 Internet survey of over 200,000 participants what five things were ranked as the most important trait in a partner? |
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True |
True or false: males, whether gay or straight, place more emphasis on bodybuilding in physical attractiveness than females do. |
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Neonate qualities, mature features, expressiveness, and grooming. |
What are the four categories of qualities that cause someone to be seen as more or less attractive according to Michael Cunningham's research in 2009? |
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Expressive traits |
Traits such as a large smile and titles are known as… |
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A comparison level |
A personal standard of what constitutes an acceptable balance of rewards and costs in a relationship |
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Comparison level for alternatives and investments |
What are the two additional factors that need to be considered to understand the role of commitment in relationships? |
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The comparison level for alternatives |
What is defined as ones estimation of the available outcomes from alternative relationships? |
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Investments |
What is defined as things that people contribute to a relationship that they can't get back if the relationship ends? |
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Reproach, remedy, and acknowledgment |
The three steps in friendship repair rituals |
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Grooming qualities |
Characteristics people use to enhance their physical qualities, such as cosmetics, hairstyle, clothing, and accessories |
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Matching hypothesis |
Proposes that people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other |
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True |
True or false: a number of studies have shown that, in heterosexual dating, males trade their occupational status for youth and physical attractiveness and females, and vice versa |
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Parental investment theory |
Theory which maintains that a species' mating patterns depend on what each sex has to invest – in the way of time, energy, and survival risk – to produce and nurture offspring |
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Reciprocal liking |
Refers to liking those who show that they like you |
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Relationship maintenance |
Involves the actions and activities used to sustain the desired quality of a relationship |
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Spontaneous and intentional maintenance |
Spontaneous and intentional maintenance |
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Minding |
In active an ongoing process of continuing usual self–disclosure and maintaining relationship-enhancing beliefs in attributions about one's partner |
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Interdependence or social exchange theory |
Theory that postulates the interpersonal relationships are governed by perceptions of the rewards and costs exchanged in interactions |
