Social Psychology: Attraction And Intimacy Chapter 11

Front 1

What is ostracism and how does it affect people?

Back 1

acts of excluding or ignoring another

people are affected through depressed mood, anxiety, hurt, and try to restore relationship, also withdrawal

Front 2

Proximity plays a role in fostering attraction how?

Back 2

By increasing functional distance

Front 3

What is functional distance?

Back 3

How often likely to interact with a person

Front 4

In what ways does proximity aid attraction?

Back 4

Fosters:
Interaction
Anticipation of Interaction
Mere Exposure

Front 5

Explain the matching phenomenon?

Back 5

A person's increased likelihood to choose a good match through attractiveness and other traits

Front 6

How does love effect how one views the world around them?

Back 6

People see others are less attractive when in love

Front 7

Birds that flock together _

Back 7

are of a feather

Front 8

What is "attitude alignment" ?

Back 8

The matching of ones attitude to match the other to breed attraction

Front 9

The popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people who contrast each other to come together to complement the other?

Back 9

Complementarity

Front 10

What is ingratiation?

Back 10

use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain an others favor

Front 11

The underestimation of a relationship occurs in people with what level of self esteem?

Back 11

Low self esteem

Front 12

What is the reward theory of attraction?

Back 12

Those who reward us or whom we associate with rewards, we tend to like better

Front 13

How can proximity, attraction and similarity be rewards?

Back 13

Proximity provides less effort (rewarding)
Attractive people have desirable traits (reward)
Similar people seem to reciprocate attraction and we thus assume liking (reward)

Front 14

Passionate Love is?

Back 14

intense longing for union with the other

It is the psychological experience of biological arousal around those we like

Front 15

What is the two factor theory of emotion?

Back 15

Arousal (X) it's label = emotion

Front 16

What anatomical structure of the brain is associated with Love?

Back 16

Caudate Nucleus

Front 17

Compassionate Love is?

Back 17

the steady flow of attraction gained from being around those who are deeply intertwined in ones life.

Front 18

What are some common elements of loving attachments?

Back 18

Mutual understanding
Giving and receiving support
Valuing and enjoying being with the other

Front 19

What are the four attachment styles?

Back 19

Secure attachment
Preoccupied (anxious-ambivalent)
Dismissive (distrustful avoidance)
Fearful (fearful avoidance)

Front 20

People with what level of self esteem fail to have positive illusions of their partners?

Back 20

Those with low self esteem.

Front 21

What are positive illusions?

Back 21

Seeing virtues withing a partners faults

Front 22

A condition where the outcomes people receive from a relationship are proportionate to what they contribute?

Back 22

Equity

Front 23

Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others is called?

Back 23

Self disclosure

Front 24

What actions allow for disclosure reciprocity? (Others disclosing to you)

Back 24

Genuine in revealing feelings
Accepting of others
Empathy and Sensitivity to other

Front 25

Three coping methods of a "break-up"?

Back 25

Loyalty
Neglect
Voicing