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| what is the biological explanation for what we find attractive? |
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| health or reproductive success |
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| under the bioloigcal explaination for attractiveness, do we prefer faces that are average or distinct? why? |
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| average, they average out differences to make face more symetirical |
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| what are the socio-physical explanations of attraction?(2) |
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realtionships could lead to social profit (if with attractive person)
we see attractive people as also having varity of other pos. traits. |
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| evolutionary psychological reason for attractivness |
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women like men who have a lot of rsources and aren't sexually easy.
men like women (lots of them) who are easy. |
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| what are the criuqes of the evolutionary perspective? |
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gender differences not very big looking at long term
no diff in desiarbiliyty of potential marriage partner based on sexual experience
both men and women more picky about long term mate |
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| people's tendency to seek and find partners who are roughly at their own level of physical attractivness |
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| describe complementary attractivness. |
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| we fair better in relationships where both partners have high skills in diff areas.. ie they're not both after high music skill if they both see music as a quitensical part of their sense of self |
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define reciprocity
- its context to daiting |
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in-kind response to behaviour of others
- people are attracted to people who think they are attracted to them |
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| not simply due to opportunity to meet and interact with people, but also due to the familiarity that comes with seeing these pople repeatedly over time. |
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| what are the different theories on what love is? (4) |
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triagnular theory
love styles theory
arousal attriubtion thoery
reward theory |
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| stable, calm, and dependable kinds of love that may include quiet intimacy, stability, shared attitudes/values/life expereinces, and high levels of self-dsicolosure |
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| 3 components of triangular theory |
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passion
intamcy
commitment
...maybe mem tirangle on pg. 496 |
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| describe the love styles theory (6) |
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eors (passionate love)
- drawn to "types"
ludus (uncommited love)
stoage (friendhsip lvoe)
mania (obbsessive love)
pragma (practical love)
agape (Selfless love)
** we're more attracted to those with similar one to us |
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| arousal attriubtion theory aka misttriubtion of physiological arousal. |
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| misattriubtion of arousal gets misinterped as deep romantic love |
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| when arousal caused by one sitmulus is added to arousal from second stimulus and combined arousal is erroneously attributed to second stimulus. |
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| intesne, excting and all encompusing type of love, which includes constant thoughts about the person, powerful physical attraction and intesne communication |
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| we like people who are pressent when we expereience reward (classical conditioning) |
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| makes us feel better about ourselves, translates into higher lvels of self esteem and self efficacy, and physical well being |
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| when looking at pics of beloved, which parts of brain lite up? |
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| caudate nucleous and VTA (vental tegmental area) |
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| what are the hormone levels of poeple in love? |
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| high poemain and norepinephrine and low serotonin |
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| four models of relationship satisfaction and maintenance |
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attachment styles
postive illusions
social norms
social exchange hteory |
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| expectations that a person has about relationship parterner, based largeryl on person's early expereinces with his or her cargivers |
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| notion that people tend to see romanitc partners as well as relationships in high idealized ways |
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| discuss the 3 different attaching styles |
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| secure - parents availbe and responsive. - like connections avoidant - parents consistently unavailable - kids dont want realtinships anxious/ambelience - partents sometimes around - diffiuclt trusting, but really want relatinoships |
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| people who are securely attached have these characteristics when discussing conflicts with their partner (5) |
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-less anger prone
- endosrse more consturive anger goals
- report more adatpitive responses and more pos. affect in anger episodes
- attribute less hostile intent to others
- expect more pos. outcomes than insecure people. |
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| describe the sex lives of those with anxiosu models of attachemnet and avoidant attachment styles. |
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ansioux
- have sex to reudce inseciruty and fostering intense intamcy
avoidant
- sex for soacila status and presige.
- have the most sex b/c htey dont' care about partners |
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| holding idzenalized view (postive illusion) about relatinoship is damanging or good? |
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| good. assoicated with icnreased satisfaction and relationship longetivity |
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| socil norms approach for happy and healthy relationships |
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we like those who follow the same soical norms we do
ie exhcange relatinoships (co-workers) vrs. communal relatinoships (fam and lovers) |
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| theory that people's satisfiaction in relationships is determined by costs and rewards of relationsihps |
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| impact of comparosn level (part of social exchange theory) |
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| relatinoships sucess not only infucled by overall costs and benifeifts of relationship, but also by expectations poeple have regarding costs and benfits of intimate relationshps. |
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| expected outcome of relationships, meaning extent to which a perons expects his or her realtnioships to be rewarding |
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| compairison levels for alteratives (CLasts) |
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| calculation regarding expectd benifts and costs that a person could recieve from having relatinoship with various other partners |
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| serouces devted to relatnioship that can't be retrieved |
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theory that realtinoship satisifation depends on ratio of costs and befits for each pertner in a relatinoship
ie if amount both parterns investing equal = happy relatnioships |
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| stratigies for increasing relatinoship satisfcation |
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increase pos and reward. behaviours
engagne in new actiivies (exciting)
remeber to put effort in |
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| common problems in close relatinoships (4) |
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| conflict, jealously, loneliness, relationshps dilutions (breaking up) |
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| descibre typology of responses (a conflict method) (4) |
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voice - talk things over
neglect- withdraw emotionally
exit - leave relatinoships
loyalty - do nothing and wait for it to get better |
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| four horsmen of appocoloypse |
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cristims
contempt
defensivness
stonewalling |
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| demand/withdraw interaction pattern |
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| common situation in which one partner is nagging, citical and insistent about discussing relationship probs while the other is withdrawn, silent and defensive |
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| explaning partnerts behaivour in neg. ways |
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| how to manage conflict in relationships |
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see others point of view
appologize |
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| crituqies of ev. perspective |
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"double shot" hypoth
- if with men, assume emot with sex, women assume sex with emot.
- recall acutal indecntis of emotinoal infiend (both men and women)
- mostly used uni students |
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| lack presence of close others and social networks |
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| waht three things lead to lonliness |
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poor social skills
neg. self views
neg expectation |
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| what varries for in senctance " whats beautiful is good" across cultures? |
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the "good"
ie dominant vrs. caring |
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| do collect or indiid sterotype more based on phsyical attract? |
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| for mariage, is love more importnat in invid or collect? |
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| which type of marriage is most comon around the world? |
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