Exam 10: Attraction and Relationships: From Initial Impressions to Long-Term Intimacy

In a speed-dating study by Finkel and Eastwick (2009) it was shown that when women were responsible for rotating from one "date" to another, that women were __________.

Dave has recently taken Jennifer out for a wonderful, elaborate birthday date, which involved all of Jennifer's favorite activities and an expensive gift. However, when Dave's birthday came a week later, Jennifer gave him some flowers and told him that she had too much work to do, so they could not go out anywhere. Remembering the birthday he had given Jennifer a week earlier, Dave was very upset. Jennifer could not understand his anger and told him that she had thought that the gift he had given her was because he loved her, not because he thought he would get a gift later. Dave considers the relationship to be based on __________ and Jennifer considers the relationship to be __________.

In all likelihood, there is a kernel of truth to the "what is beautiful is good" stereotype; that is, attractive people are often more warm and socially skilled than less attractive people. According to the authors, this is probably because attractive people __________.

Arlene finds that even though she sat in the opposite corner of the classroom from Ronda during the entire term of their chemistry class, when they bump into each other at a party, she seems to like Ronda more than the strangers around. This is best explained by ____________.

A meta-analysis (Montoya, Horton, & Kirchner, 2008) determined that __________ similarity predicted liking and attraction better than __________ similarity.

Which of the following is out of place?

A strong tie that binds people together, whether they be romantic couples or business rivals, that is only developed over time and through mutual experiences is described with the term __________ in Korean culture.

"I find that others are reluctant to get as close to me as I would like. I often have dreams that my husband doesn't love me like he used to, and that he leaves me unexpectedly. I guess I have this need to lose myself in the person I love, and this sometimes scares them away." A person who has a(n) __________ attachment most likely wrote those words.

In what ways are early experiences with primary caregivers related to later adult relationships? Be sure to mention three different attachment styles.

Brian has had many girlfriends in his life, mostly because he feels unable to comfortably commit to any one person. As soon as a relationship begins to get serious, he feels trapped and puts up barriers to his partner. His girlfriends always want him to make a bigger commitment than he is comfortable making. Brian's attachment style is best described as __________.

The basic concepts of social exchange theory address __________.

Which of the following statements does NOT match the research on attraction?

Researchers (Wheeler & Kim, 1997) asked American, Canadian, and Korean students to rate the attractiveness of people in yearbook photographs, and to rate the people in the photographs on a number of personality dimensions. Which of the following traits did ALL participants associate with physical attractiveness?

Which of the following statements is NOT a pitfall of online dating as identified by the authors of your text?

In her investment model of close relationships, what does Rusbult (1983) define as an investment?

An evolutionary psychologist would be most likely to base theories on __________.

Festinger, Schachter, and Back (1950) traced friendship formations among couples in an apartment complex at MIT. They found that residents were most likely to be friends with people __________.

Recall that Elaine Hatfield (Walster) and her colleagues (1966) randomly paired incoming students for a first-year orientation dance. They found that men __________.

When researchers performed an fMRI on participants looking at pictures of someone they were in love with, they found that the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and caudate nucleus were activated, and that they were more strongly activated the more intensely participants indicated that they loved the person in the photo. These particular areas of the brain are associated with the __________.

Research by Hancock and Toma (2009) found that 32% of dating profile photographs were deceptive. In this case, daters seem to provide inaccurate photos __________.