PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP Flashcards
(92 cards)
ARISTOTLE called humans “__________”
the social animal
a feelings that makes someone romantically or sexually interested in another person
ATTRACTION
a feature or quality that makes someone or something interesting or enjoyable
ATTRACTION
“liking” something or someone
ATTRACTION
FACTORS THAT LEAD TO FRIENDSHIP AND ATTRACTION:
PROXIMITY FAMILIARITY SIMILARITY PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS DESIRABLE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
proximity breeds liking because of what
availability
factor that leads to attraction that refers to geographical nearness
PROXIMITY
the best single predictor of whether two people will be friends is what
how far apart they live
proximity can also breed ______ but much more often, proximity prompts liking
hostility
factor that leads to attraction that is a form of remembering in which a person provokes a subjective feeling of recognition and is therefore believed to be in memory, although it is not specifically recalled
FAMILIARITY
familiar is assumed to be similar to ______
self
in familiarity, there is an optimal level of exposure, too much can lead to what
boredom and satiation
familiarity is most effective if stimulus is initially viewed as ______ or ________
positive or neutral
in familiarity, pre-existing conflicts between people will get _______, not ________, with exposure
intensified; decrease
factor that leads to attraction that describes how we like others who are similar to us in attitudes, interests, values, background, and personality
SIMILARITY
in romantic relationships, the tendency to choose similar others is called the “_______________”
matching phenomenon
a phenomenon when people tend to choose someone whose attractiveness roughly matches their own, but in cases when someone is less attractive, the latter often compensates with other qualities
matching phenomenon
the tendency of two people to complete what is missing in the other, may develop as a relationship progresses
COMPLEMENTARITY
as a general rule, opposite _______ attract
do not
factor that leads to attraction that is whatever the people of any given place and time find attractive
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
the assumption that physically attractive people possess other desirable traits
PHYSICAL-ATTRACTIVENESS STEREOTYPE
_______ plays a large role in standards of attractiveness
culture
people do tend to agree on some features that are seen as more attractive, such as:
statistically “average faces”
symmetrical or balanced faces
for both sexes, characteristics such as _____________________ are most important
dependability,
maturity,
pleasantness
