Exam 1 Flashcards
Why are men attracted to women who have an hour glass figure
Fertility
When are women more likely to cheat on their partners
Days surrounding their ovulation
What is the most physically attractive hip to waist ratio b
Waist to hip ratio of a curvy 0.7 .
Waist being 30% smaller than their hips
What do you know about physical attractiveness matching process in relationships
Demographic similarity in age sex race religion and social clas
What kind of similarity is important to liking
Religion , housework , and gender roles
What kind of similarity is important to liking
Religion , housework , and gender roles
What is fatal attraction
When the quality that you once thought attracted you, over time becomes one of the most obnoxious, irritating things about them
What is stimulus-value-role theory
3 different broad types of information as the relationship developers
Stimulus - sex, age, and looks
Value- similarity on attitudes and values like liking the same movie, politics
Role compatibility - agreeing on the basics of parenting, careers, house cleaning and other life Task
Men and women look for in short term flings
Same have relatively low standards
Men and women picking long term relations
Women - want a man with good character rather than looks , warmth, loyalty ,status and resources
Men - loyalty and attach more importance to attactivness and viability
Which sample is most appropriate for a research study in which the demographic characteristics of the subjects are not important
Convenience sample
What is a convenience sample
Using anyone that is readily available and consents to participation
What is representative sample
The participates resemble the entire population of people who are of interest
What is correlation
It describes the patterns in which change is one event is accompanied to some degree by change in another
Which of the following is the strongest correlation
-.67 , .09, .43
-.67
What is the difference between longitudinal studies and Cross sectional studies
Longitudinal studies are studies done over time ,
Cross sectional studies are studies done at a specific point in time
What is experimental design
Provides straight forward information on causes and their affects bc experimenters create and control the conditions they study
Having a control group with the experiment group and comparing the data
What is correlation design
Involves looking for relationships between variables of the graph
Developmental Design
Techniques used for life span research for assessing development and change over time
What are the major draw backs of using experimental design research on intimate relationships
You can’t manipulate important facts of a intimate relationship
Can’t create and full fledged experience of Romatic love in a lab
You can’t do experiments on events you can’t control
When drawing conclusion about behavior changes over time one of the biggest drawbacks of cross sectional design is what
There is no causation .
Seeing data from one point of time , won’t be able to see growth or change because there is nothing to compare too
What research design should you use if you want to test whether childhood attachment develops into adult attachments
Longitudinal
What is the greatest methodological limitation of longitudinal design
Participation attrition
- the lose of participants over time
What is experience sampling
Short terms of observation to capture samples of behavior over long periods of time
Gathering info in an individuals natural environment over time
