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Attaction and Intimacy
Ch.11
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/17/2013

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Proximity
Definition
Geographical nearness. Proximity (more precisely, "function distance") powerfully predicts liking.
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Mere-exposure effect
Definition
The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them.
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Matching Phenomenon
Definition
The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a "good match" in attractiveness and other traits.
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Physical-attractiveness stereotype
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The presumption that physically attraction people possess other socially desirable traits as well: What is beautiful is good.
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Complementarity
Definition
The popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other.
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ingratiation
Definition
The use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain anothers favor.
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Reward theory of attraction
Definition
The theory that we like those whose behavior is rewarding to us or whom we associate with rewarding events.
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Passionate Love
Definition
A state of intense longing for union with another. Passionate lovers are absorbed in each other, feel ecstatic at attaining their partner's love and are disconsolate on losing it.
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Two-factor theory of emotion
Definition
Arousal X its label= emotion
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Companionate love
Definition
The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined.
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Secure attachment
Definition
Attachments rooted in trust and marked by intimacy.
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Preoccupied attachment
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Attachments marked by a sense of one's own unworthiness and anxiety, ambivalence and possessiveness.
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Dismissive Attachment
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An avoidant relationship style marked by distrust of others.
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Fearful attachment
Definition
an avoidant relationship style marked by fear of rejection.
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Equity
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A condition in which the outcomes people receive from a relationship are proportional to that they contribute to it. Note: Equitable outcomes needn't always be equal in outcomes.
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consummate love
Definition
intimacy, passion, and commitment
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romantic love
Definition
intimacy and passion
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fatuous love
Definition
passion and commitment
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companionate love
Definition
intimacy and commitment
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liking
Definition
intimacy
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infatuation
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passion
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empty love
Definition
commitment
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self-disclosure
Definition
revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others
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disclosure reciprocity
Definition
the tendency for one person’s intimacy of self-disclosure to match that of a conversational partner
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