Exam 9: Family and Intimate Relationships

There are four specific factors that drive interpersonal attraction: appearance, proximity, similarity, and complementarity. Define what each of these terms means and discuss their importance in the process of interpersonal attraction. Next, identify one of these factors as the single most important in the process of attraction. Make an argument for this factor and against the others in the context of both friendship and romantic relationships.

Create a guide for managing successful relationships in the workplace. Generate at least two reasoned, well-articulated pieces of advice that you think will help people maintain successful relationships with co-workers, bosses, and customers (six ideas total). Write your responses as if you're actually going to present them to a company's employees. Make sure to include examples to illustrate your ideas.

Define the social and task dimensions of work relationships and indicate how they can make social relationships among co-workers challenging.

Friendships and other social relationships often involve this type of rewards:

When forming friendships, people find several forms of similarity to be attractive. According to research, which of the following is true?

Which of the following statements about opposite-sex friendships is NOT true?

Define and give concrete examples of the emotional, material, and health rewards of strong social relationships.

People often stay in relationships that are unsatisfying or even harmful. Use the ideas of social exchange theory and equity theory to explain why this might happen. Next, talk about ways that friends and family members might be able to persuade their loved ones to abandon these detrimental relationships.