The Self
An attempt to enhance your own image by publicly associating with successful others.
What is BASKING IN REFLECTED GLORY?
Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics based on their membership in a particular group.
What are STEREOTYPES?
How a message is said rather than the content of what is said.
What is PARALANGUAGE?
Principle that people of similar levels of physical attractiveness tend to couple up.
What is the MATCHING HYPOTHESIS?
Marry someone similar in age, education, attitudes, etc.
What is HOMOGAMY?
This is when you compare yourself to someone who is worse-off to feel better about yourself.
What is DOWNWARD SOCIAL COMPARISON?
Our tendency to seek information that supports our existing beliefs and ignore information that contradicts them.
What is CONFIRMATION BIAS?
This type of communication can be ambiguous, if often multi-channeled, and may contradict verbal messages.
What is NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION?
3 attachment styles.
What are SECURE, ANXIOUS-AMBIVALENT, & AVOIDANT?
Orderly sequence of developmental stages that families tend to progress through.
What is the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE?
This model of self-control compares it to a muscle that gets tired after use because it is limited.
What is EGO-DEPLETION?
It's best to use the __________ route to persuasion when you have an attentive, intelligent, engaged audience, but stick to the __________ route to persuasion if your audience doesn't have the motivation or ability to understand your message.
What are the CENTRAL & PERIPHERAL routes?
Women experience more intimacy in a relationship when her partner does this, whereas men experience more intimacy if they do it themselves.
What is SELF-DISCLOSURE?
Name 2 types of loneliness.
What are SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, TRANSIENT, TRANSITIONAL, & CHRONIC?
Name 2 ways homosexual relationships are similar to heterosexual relationships.
What are LOVE, SATISFACTION, COMMITMENT, GOALS, SUCCESS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, & RAISING CHILDREN?
People with this type of explanatory style attribute setbacks to internal, stable, and global factors.
What is PESSIMISTIC?
Emphasizes the importance of information we learn first (e.g., first impression biases the way that a person interprets information about us in the future).
What is PRIMACY EFFECT?
Name 3 components of the communication process.
What are SENDER, RECEIVER, MESSAGE, CHANNEL, NOISE, & CONTEXT?
3 steps to repair conflict in a friendship.
What are REPROACH, REMEDY, & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT?
Name 2 reasons people stay in abusive relationships.
What are FINANCIALLY DEPENDENT ON PARTNER, NO HOME IF THEY LEAVE, ASHAMED FAMILY/FRIENDS WILL BLAME THEM, & AFRAID ABUSER WILL RETALIATE/INCREASE AGGRESSION?
Name 3 ways to increase self-efficacy.
What are MASTER NEW SKILLS, WATCH OTHERS MODEL A SKILL, GET ENCOURAGEMENT, & POSITIVELY INTERPRET EMOTIONS?
Name 3 requirements of intergroup contact to successfully reduce intergroup hostility.
What are WORK TOWARD A COMMON GOAL or SUCCESS or MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS or GROUPS HAVE EQUAL STATUS?
Name 3 styles of conflict management.
What are AVOIDING/WITHDRAWING; ACCOMMODATING; COMPETING/FORCING; COMPROMISING; & COLLABORATING?
Name the theory that describes whether you stay in a relationship or get out based on whether the benefits of the relationship outweigh the costs AND name the 2 components that determine this decision.
What are SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY & COMPARISON LEVEL & COMPARISON LEVEL OF ALTERNATIVES?
Name 3 changes to the traditional model of marriage.
What are INCREASED ACCEPTANCE OF SINGLEHOOD, INCREASED ACCEPTANCE OF COHABITATION, REDUCED PREMIUM ON PERMANCENE, TRANSITIONS IN GENDER ROLES, INCREASED VOLUNTARY CHILDLESSNESS, & DECLINE IN THE NUCLEAR FAMILY?