Answer These Interpersonal Attraction Questions in Psychology Flashcards

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Interpersonal attraction refers to
The positive response we have to those who are similar to us.
Since newborns are predisposed to look toward faces in preference to other stimuli, this offers evidence that
There is a decrease in affiliation need at the community level.
People with high scores on explicit measures of the need to affiliate are most likely to
Form friendships and interact with many people.
According to a classical conditioning model of attraction, if you saw a funny film with someone, you would
Like the person more
Proximity is important to attraction because
Repeated exposure tends to produce favorable evaluations.
The observation that repeated exposure to a new stimulus results in increasingly positive evaluations of the stimulus is known as
The mere exposure effect
The repeated exposure effect is LEAST likely to generate positive evaluations when
The stimulus initially generates strong negative affect.
Physical attractiveness is not associated with ______ but is correlated with ________.
Kindness; high self-esteem
Dave has just been shown a composite face of 20 women. He will likely rate this face as ______ in attractiveness.
Above average
Before going out on his date, Jon watched a portion of a TV show in which there were many attractive women. When he picked up his date, for some reason she did not seem as attractive as she had in the past. This situation illustrates the operation of
The contrast effect.
People who share similar attitudes and beliefs are _____ to like each other.
More likely
Attraction between two people is enhanced when
Areas of similarity outweigh dissimilarity
Information about dissimilar attitudes and beliefs has _____ effect on attraction than does the same amount of information about similar attitudes.
Slightly strong
Suppose that during a conversation with one of your friends, you discover that she dislikes social psychology and your professor. You, on the other hand, like both of these things very much. Under these conditions, your relationship with your friend can be described as
Balanced
The idea that opposites attract is called
Complementarity