Formation

Question 1

AO1 Reward/Need Satisfaction Theory - Byrne and Clore

Answer 1

Spending time with someone is rewarding / want to spend more time - fulfil the others needs
Attraction through association - more likely to like if we associate with pos events / if we meet when we’re happy, more likely to like them
Neutral stimulus become reinforces because of association - if pos > neg feelings = more likely to succeed

Question 2

AO1 Similarity hypothesis Byrne Clore and Smeaton

Answer 2

Personality - those with similar attributes eg. hardworking, serious, more likely to attract
LT married couples who were similar were happier than those who weren’t
Attitudes - attitude alignment - modifying to become more similar - in order for a rel to develop one or more must adapt

Question 3

AO2

R/N Satisfaction -
Mary and Hamilton
Arunson

Sim -
Rosenbaum - dissimilarity
Yoshida

Cultural bias
Evolution

Answer 3

M&H -females rated male pps under pop rock, avant garde and no music - higher under pop rock
Arunson - pps overheard confederate giving opinion - preferred when it began negative then became positive - rewarding

Rosenbaum - dissimilarity made partners less attractive, not lack of similarities in LT relationships
Yoshida - reductionist - economic factor, physical level etc all been shown as important

Cultural bias - women in collectivist cultures more focused on needs of others

From an evolutionary perspective, we are likely to focus on one individual to speed up mating process