What is the basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships? Who created this?
need for affiliation, Schachter
100
What is referred to as the evaluations we make about other people-- the negative an positive attitudes we form about them.
What is interpersonal attraction
100
We especially like people who indicate they ______ us. We dislike those who ______ us and negatively evaluate us.
What is like and dislike.
100
Although close relationships are strongly influenced by cultural factors, they share this common characteristic.
-refers to an interpersonal association in which two people influence each others life.
What is interdependence
100
What is one of the most powerful feelings of which we are capable. It involves so much more than passion; it involves commitment and caring too.
What is love
200
This is the physical closeness between two individuals with respect to where they live, work etc. THe small there physical distance, the greater the probability the two people will come into repeated contact experiencing repeated exposure to each other.
What is proximity
200
Overtime, these people worry about there appearance and fear that others may snub them because they don't quite measure up on this dimension.
What is appearance-rejection sensitivity
200
People prefer those similar to themselves rather than dis-similar? Name one example to agree with this statement.
First relationships are within the family and we acquire an attachment style based on _______.
What is interactions with the caregiver
200
A powerful emotion usually triggered by threats to our self esteem--threats arising when we fear that someone we love or care about will desert us for a rival.
What is jealousy
300
The consistent finding that people respond positively to indications that another person is similar to themselves and negatively to indications that another person is dissimilar from themselves.
What is similarity-dissimilarity effect
300
When any stimulus arouses positive affect, the stimulus is liked. if it arouses negative affect, it is disliked. What is this pattern known as?
What is associated effect of emotions on attraction.
300
One of the main factors determining attractions toward another person include ____, ______, _______, and ______.
What is similarity of attitudes, beliefs, values, and interests.
300
Name the different attachment styles. Briefly describe them.
What is secure attachment style (high self esteem and high interpersonal trust; most successful and most desirable style). Fearful-avoidant attachment style (low self esteem and low interpersonal trust; most insecure and least adaptive attachment style. Preoccupied attachment style( low self esteem and high interpersonal trust; insecure style yet strongly desires a close relationship but feels unworthy of partner. Dismissing attachment style(high self esteem and low interpersonal trust; conflicted insecure style but individual feels that they deserve a close relationship but frustrated because of mistrust in potential spouses.
300
Name some components of love
What is intimacy, passion, and commitment
400
The degree of security experienced in interpersonal relationships. Differential styles initially develop in the interactions between infant and caregiver when the infant acquired basic attitudes about self worth and interpersonal trust.
What is attachment style
400
Perceptions of attractions are almost always influenced by this.
What is the situation.
400
What is the theory that says people naturally organize their likes and dislikes in a symmetrical way. Who was it composed by?
What is the balance theory, Heider and Newcomb
400
What leads up to feelings of loneliness?
What is environmental factors, rejection, attachment style(avoiding close relationships) failure to develop social skills, lack of intervention etc.
400
What is the term that can best be used when deciding why people get married.
-it is when partners believe they are similar.
What is assumed similarity
500
A personality disposition characterized by unreasonably high self esteem, a feeling of superiority, a need for admiration, sensitivity to criticism, a lack of empathy, and exploitative behavior.
What is narcissism
500
Interpersonal attraction and judgements based on _____ are strongly affected by various observable characteristics of these we meet, including physical attractiveness.
What is a stereotype
500
What is the that suggested that people compare themselves to others because there is no objective yardstick with which to evaluate the self and whom was it provided by?
What is the social comparison theory, Festinger (1954)
500
Briefly describe the schema of a relationship.
What is self, one's partner, and the relationships. The three schemas overlap and the thoughts and ideas at the intersection of the schemas play an important role in the nature of the relationship.
500
Name some reasons as to why a relationship may succeed or fail.
What is money(cost), issues between spouses, negative personalities, low self esteem, success, pressure, commitment etc.