Basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships
Need for Affiliation
True or False? Our need to affiliate with others appears to be present from adolescence onward?
FALSE! The need to affiliate with others appears to be present from the earliest days of our lives.
Relatively stable trait
Disposition
True or False? The amount of social contact that is optimal for everyone is different?
TRUE!
____________ leads to increased sensitivity to interpersonal information and results in less effective cognitive functioning.
Social Exclusion
The _______ the stress of a situation, the ________ the need to affiliate with others becomes.
Greater; Greater
True or False? Misery hates miserable company and makes the situation worse and more depressing.
FALSE! Misery loves miserable company.
Affiliation provides the opportunity for _________________________.
Social Comparison
Being aware of what is happening and to know what is going on is____________________.
Cognitive Clarity
The better understanding of our own current feelings is _______________.
Emotional Clarity
True or False? Opposites attract.
FALSE! (most of the time anyways)
The ways in which we form emotional bonds and regulate our emotions in close relationships
Attachment Style
Our attachment style has (Strong/Weak) effects on our thinking about others and our relationships with them and important aspects of our behavior.
STRONG!
Revealing our innermost thoughts and feelings
Self-Disclosure
Fear of rejection and abandonment by others
Attachment Anxiety
What are two main aspects of a person that affects whether or not we like them?
1. Do they make you feel good?
2. Were they associated with a good or a bad feeling? (What was the emotional setting in which you met?)
We (Almost Always/Sometimes/Almost Never) look for people with similar beliefs and attitudes.
Almost Always
When someone thinks like we do, we feel that they are______________.
Correct and Smart
___________ similarities lead to ____________ affiliation.
Greater; Greater
True or False? We tend to dirictely evaluate people based on whether we are in a good mood or in a bad mood (affective state).
TRUE!
Reason by which we are or are not attracted towards a person
Classical Conditioning
The general explanation for the influence of affect on attraction and other attitudes is __________ _________.
Classical Conditioning
We are generally (Aware/Unaware) of the process of classical conditioning.
Unaware
What are the two important aspects for determining attraction in situations like speed dating?
1. First impressions
2. External evaluations
True or False? We always want to be validated by comparisons to others.
TRUE!
We eventually want to (Tip/Balance) the depth of our differences with others we are close to.
Balance
Physical closeness between two people
Proximity
According to proximity, the ________ the physical distance, the _______ the probability that the two will come into repeated contact experiencing repeated exposure, positive affect, and development of mutual attraction
Smaller; Greater
Frequent contact with any mildly negative, neutral, or positive stimulus results in an increasingly positive evaluation of that stimulus
Repeated Exposure
True or False? Being in close proximity to strangers is almost always uncomfortable.
TRUE!
Combination of characteristics that are evaluated as beautiful or handsome at the positive extreme and as unattractive at the negative extreme
Physical Attractiveness
People worry about their appearance and fear that others may snub them because they don't quite measure up on this dimension
Appearance-Rejection Sensitivity
Extent to which two individuals share teh same attitudes
Attitude Similarity
Consistent finding that people respond positively to indications that another person is similar to themselves and negatively to indications that another person is dissimilar from themselves
Similarity-Dissimilarity Effect
Number of specific indicators that two people are similar divided by the number of specific indicators that two people are similar plus the number of specific indicators that they are dissimilar
Proportion of Similarity
The _________ the proportion of similar attitudes, the ______ attraction.
Higher; More
Attraction is not increased by similar attitudes but is simply decreased by dissimilar attitudes
Repulsion Hypothesis
Formulations of ______ and _______ specify the relationship among three things:
Heider; Newcomb
1. individual's liking for another person
2. their attitude about a given topic
3.other person's attitude about the same topic
The formulations of Heider and Newcomb are known as the ________ _______.
Balance Theory
Liking + Agreement = __________
Balance
Liking + Disagreement = ________
Imbalance
Disliking + Agreement OR Disagreement = _________ and leads to _________.
Nonbalance; Indifference
The theory that people compare themselves to others because there is no onjective yardstick with witch to evaluate the self, so we compare ourselves to others.
Social Comparison Theory
Any physical characteristic or behavioral tendency that enhances the odds of reproductive success for an individual or for other individuals with similar genes is ___________ ____________.
Adaptive Response
Personal relationship based on hatred and malice in which one person wishes to produce another person's downfall and attempts to sabotage that person's life and progress.
Enemyship
An interpersonal association in which two people influence each others' lives
Interdependence
The degree of security experienced in interpersonal relationships
Attachment Style
Circumstance in which the attachment style is initially developed.
Between infant and caregiver
Attitudinal dimension underlying attachment styles that involves the belief that other people are generally trustworthy, dependable, and reliable.
Interpersonal Trust
Most successful and most desirable attachment style.
Interpersonal Trust
Attachment style characterized by high self-esteem and high interpersonal trust
