Relationships 💞

Question 1

What is the difference between communal and exchange relationship

Answer 1

Communal relationship is based on emotional responsibility toward the other one and there is exchange according to the principle of need.

Exchange relationship are based on equity and reciprocity. There is low feeling of responsability

Question 2

social exchange theory

Answer 2

theory that support that how people feel about a relationship depends on their assessments of its costs and rewards

Question 3

What are the 2 standard used toevaluate the rewards and cost of a relationship

Answer 3

comparison level & comparison level for alternatives!

Question 4

What is the comparison level

Answer 4

according to the comparison level which is the expectation people have about what they think they deserve or expect

Question 5

How is the comparison level for alternatives different from the comparison level

Answer 5

the difference lies within in the nature of the expectation which are based according to available, alternative relationship

Question 6

equity theory

Answer 6

idea that people are motivated to pursue fairness or equity in their relationships

equity = when benefits are proportionate to the effort both people put in

Question 7

attachment theory is based on what assumption

Answer 7

It is based on the idea that early attachments with parents and other caregivers can shape relationships of an individual for life…

Question 8

anxiety dimension of attachment refers to which variation in attachment

Answer 8

Capture the degree to which a person is worried about rejection and abandonment by relationship partners

Question 9

The avoidance dimension of attachment refers to which variation in attachment

Answer 9

Reflects the degree to which a person is confortable with intimacy and dependence on relationship partners

Question 10

What is the functional distance?

Answer 10

It depicts the influence of an architectural layout to encourage or inhibit certain activities, including CONTACT between people

proximity = ↑ chance of encounters

Question 11

What is reproductive fitness and what may explain it

Answer 11

The capacity to pass one’s genes on to subsequent generations

Explained by evolution

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Question 12

investment model of commitment explains what and what are its components

Answer 12

Model that describesi why we remain committed to their relationships and it is according to

• relationship satisfaction
• few alternative partners
• investment in the relationship

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