Relationships

Question 1

Matching Hypothesis

Answer 1

more likely to match well with people similar to them - more attracted to those of the same demographic / values

Question 2

Dunbar and Waynforth

Answer 2

lonely hearts
42% men want youthfulness / 44% attractiveness
women 25% youth / 22% attractive

Question 3

Dissimilarity

Answer 3

filter theory - uncomfortable around those that are diff

Question 4

Buss

Answer 4

survey
10,000+ / 32 countries
- women (36/37) want finance
- men (37) want attractiveness

Question 5

Intrapsychic doubt

Answer 5

beginning of dissolution - leave normal relationship in favour of a newer one - also prevents people leaving abusive ones

Question 6

duck

Answer 6

7 longitudinal (meta anal)
- 7 factors of dissolution
- Difference in personality
- Deception
- Child of divorce
- Different demographic
- Jealousy
- Attitudes change
- Young ages
- Lower socioeconomic status
- Relocation

Question 7

sexual selection

Answer 7

in EEA
- physiological cues pref - as they indicate youth (fertility) / symmetry (health)

Question 8

Clark and Hatfield

Answer 8

uni campus
- men / women asked 3 Q
- go on a date = 50:50
- go home = 6:69
- sleep = 0:75

Question 9

Equity

Answer 9

need someone who is complimentary of their needs - gives something they need

Question 10

Cole and Leets

Answer 10

people more likely to develop Para social Relationship with fav tv character if they are insecure resistant

Question 11

Social Exchange Theory

Answer 11

humans = selfish and self serving
- relationships = positive / negative
- weigh up relationships (commit) based upon if they provide profit - more pos than neg

Question 12

Trivers

Answer 12

Parental Investment
- women seek men who share (adaptive all the risk)
- Men seek many women (adaptive - no certainty)

Question 13

Demographic

Answer 13

marriages with diff demo = more unstable over time
= yet similarities like attitudes = strongest factors (ish) in attraction

Question 14

investment model

Answer 14

investment model attitudes towards investment = different perceptions of relationships = differentiating likelihood of committing to a relationship.
INVESTMENT = SATISFACTION

Question 14

Simpson

Answer 14

Ps rate people’s attractiveness
- lower if in a relationship

Question 15

Walster

Answer 15

Equity theory
- own perception of equality more imp than profit vs loss
- distress = when u put in a lot of effort - receive little
- relative to how much u think u deserve (pos)

Question 16

Para social Relationships

Answer 16

where one person spends intense amounts of time / energy into a person who doesn’t even know they exist (celebrity)

Question 17

Kerkhoff and Davies

Answer 17

3 levels of filter theory
- demo / attitudes / values

longi study = post 18 months - meeting needs becomes more imp than values

Question 18

Virtual Relationship

Answer 18

higher levels of self-disclosure - less barriers compared to face to face

• able to communicate online alot

Question 19

Maltby

Answer 19

levels of PSR =
- Entertainment social = fun to keep up with Celeb

• Intense personal = obsessive tendencies
• Borderline pathological - identify with celebs successes and failures - fantasising etc.

Question 20

Cuckoldry

Answer 20

male fear of raising and investing in a child that is actually another mans.

Question 21

McCutcheon

Answer 21

PSR = weak sense of identity
- Absorption = focus on celeb
- Addiction = desire for deeper connection

also likely to have lower IQ

Question 22

Rusbult

Answer 22

Rusbult Q =
- satisfaction
- comp to alternative
- correlated with commitment
= repeated post 7 m
- commitment is derived from the level of satisfaction derived from the relationship.

Question 23

self-disclosure

Answer 23

sharing personal information with someone else.