CHAPTER 11 Flashcards
(23 cards)
Define attraction?
Refers to anything that draws two or more people together, making them want to be together and possibly to form a lasting relationship.
Define social acceptance?
A situation in which other people have come to like you, respect you, approve of you, and include you in their groups and relationships.
Define rejection (also known as social exclusion)?
Being prevented by others from forming or keeping a social bond with them.
Explain why the need to
belong is a basic need?
We get our basic food and shelter from other people, rather than directly from nature.
To enjoy the benefits of culture, people have to have an inner drive to connect with other people.
Forming relationships involves securing acceptance, which often depends on getting others to feel and think positively about you.
People who had a stronger need to belong probably thrived better than other people, so that today’s humans are mainly descended from ancestors who had a strong need to belong.
Define need to belong?
The desire to form and maintain close, lasting relationships with other individuals
Name two ingredients to belongingness?
First, people want some kind of regular social contacts.
Second, people want the stable framework of some ongoing relationship in which the people share a mutual concern for each
other.
Define ingratiation?
What people do to try to make someone like them.
Two old clichés make opposite predictions about who likes whom?
“birds of a feather flock together” suggests that people mainly like others who resemble themselves.
“opposites attract” – that people are drawn to people dissimilar to themselves.
Define self-monitoring?
The ability to change one’s behaviour for different situations
Define matching hypothesis?
Proposition that people tend to pair up with others who are equally attractive
Define reinforcement theory?
The proposition that people and animals will perform behaviours that have been rewarded more than they will perform other behaviours.
Two themes of ingratiation research confirm the importance of interpersonal rewards?
To do favours for that person.
To praise that person.
Define propinquity?
Being near someone on a regular basis.
Define social allergy effect?
The idea that a partner’s annoying habits become more annoying over time.
Define what is beautiful is good effect ?
The assumption that physically attractive people will be superior to others on many other traits.
Define ostracism?
Being excluded, rejected, and ignored by others.
What are the effects of rejection: inner reactions?
➢ pain.
➢ illness.
➢ depression.
➢ suicidal thoughts.
➢ eating disorders.
Define loneliness ?
The painful feeling of wanting more human contact or connection than you have.
Define rejection sensitivity?
A tendency to expect rejection from others and to become hypersensitive to possible rejection.
What leads to social rejection?
Being disabled.
Speaking differently.
Belonging to a racial minority.
Define bad apple effect?
The idea that one person who breaks the rules can inspire other people to break the rules too.
Define unrequited love?
A situation in which one person loves another but the other does not return that love
Define stalking?
Behaviours that frighten and harass the rejecter in a relationship.
