Deck 7: Attraction: Initiating Romance, Friendship, and Other Relationships

Question 1

What is the conceptual definition of attraction?

Answer 1

desire for a voluntary relationship
- sustained because participants enjoy each other

Question 2

According to Festinger, Schacter, & Back (1950), what two types of proximity that are intimately involved in friendship choice?

Answer 2

physical distance
- functional distance

Question 3

What is the difference between an ascribed status and an achieved status?

Answer 3

ascribed status: one that is bestowed (e.g. race, attractiveness)
- achieved status: one what is earned (e.g. education or profession)

Question 4

Generally speaking, people who are like us are highly attractive. This is known as what?

Question 5

The idea that people desire consistency in their judgments of others in relation to others' behaviors is captured in what theory?

Question 6

What does "the exotic becomes erotic" refer to, and does this idea support or refute similarity principles of attraction?

Question 7

Jenny never used to care one way or another about Bruce Springsteen. However, a co-worker put up a Springsteen poster by Jenny's desk, and after some time Jenny finds that she now likes him. This is an example of what phenomenon?

Question 8

In the study by Moreland & Beach (1992), mere exposure was found to have significant impact on what three constructs?

Question 9

physical attractiveness has predictable effects on attraction, even outside of romantic and sexual attraction.

Question 10

According to Feingold (1988), is the average correlation of attractiveness between friends is high for men only, women only, or both?

Question 11

Attraction, like the self and attitudes, does not submit to direct dissection, and is thus an example of what?

Question 12

Which two core social motives are primarily involved in attraction?

Question 13

Across cultures, the "average" face is arguably the most attractive. Why is this?

Question 14

As per the chapter, what are three models that predict the similarity-attraction relationship?

Question 15

The idea that we like people who like us reflects which general phenomenon?

Question 16

What are the three elements of Kenny & LaVoie's (1984) social relations model?

Question 17

What are reward theories of attraction?

Question 18

According to evolutionary perspectives on gender differences in mate preferences, which gender is more likely to be choosy about their sexual partners? Why?

Question 19

Which phenomenon might predict that men prefer to invest in women with longer reproductive lives in front of them, whereas women prefer men who have accumulated resources with age?

Question 20

Traditional division of labor and gender hierarchies result in what kind of roles for men and women?