Unit 9: Chapter 9-Attraction and Close Relationships

Question 1

Describe the need for affiliation.

Question 2

Define social anxiety.

Question 3

What is the relationship between affiliation and stress?

Question 4

Define loneliness.

Question 5

What are the three facets of loneliness, according to Cacioppo and others (2015)? Identify the factors that are associated with loneliness.

Question 6

What role do rewards play in interpersonal attraction?

Question 7

What is the relationship between proximity and interpersonal attraction? Through what process does this relationship develop?

Question 8

What are the objective factors and the subjective factors that influence perceptions of beauty?

Question 9

Why are people attracted to beautiful people?

Question 10

Describe the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype.

Question 11

Describe the benefits and costs of being physically beautiful.

Question 12

How do similarity and dissimilarity influence our attraction to people during initial encounters?

Question 13

Describe the matching hypothesis.

Question 14

Explain the role of reciprocity in early relationships.

Question 15

What is the hard-to-get effect?

Question 16

How do we respond to people who are hard to get?

Question 17

Provide research evidence for and against an evolutionary view of mate selection.

Question 18

Explain the concepts of comparison level.

Question 19

Explain the concepts of comparison level alternatives

Question 20

Explain the concepts of social exchange theory.

Question 21

How do these concepts work together to influence perceptions of and commitment to relationships?

Question 22

Describe the equity theory.

Question 23

In what way is the equity theory similar to the social exchange theory?

Question 24

How are communal relationships different from exchange relationships?

Question 25

Describe the different types of attachment style that adults exhibit in romantic relationships.

Question 26

Briefly describe Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, including its three basic components.

Question 27

List the types of love resulting from combinations of these (Sternberg's) three components.

Question 28

How are passionate love and companionate love different, according to Hatfield?

Question 29

Describe the roles that arousal and excitation transfer play in the experience of passionate love.

Question 30

Describe typical patterns of self-disclosure in the development of social relationships.

Question 31

Describe the communication patterns and attribution styles that couples use in times of conflict and the consequences of using these patterns and styles.

Question 31

Describe patterns of marital satisfaction and their relation to break-ups.

Question 32

What are the factors that influence how well a person copes with the ending of an intimate relationship?