Exam 10: Relationships and Attraction

Leon finds himself attracted to women whose physical appearances suggest that they are very healthy.Evolutionary theorists would argue that,whether he realizes it or not,Leon is attending to the ________ of the women he encounters.

Explain Rusbult's investment model of commitment and describe how each of the three determinants influences commitment.

According to the textbook,there are three main predictors of attraction.Which of the following is NOT one of these three predictors?

Some historians believe that the idea that romantic love should precede marriage

Physically attractive people generally feel ________ than people who are comparatively less attractive.

Identify and define the so-called Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and explain why they are toxic to relationships.

Social psychologists have used the bogus stranger paradigm to study the effects of ________ on liking.

Kareem tends to idealize his husband,which means that he

Which of the following is one of the behaviors discussed in the text that couples can do to build stronger romantic bonds?

Consider the following quote from William Whyte in The Organization Man: "Despite the fact that a person can pick and choose from a vast number of people to make friends with,such things as the placement of a stoop or the direction of a street often have more to do with determining who is friends with whom." This quote captures the essence of how ________ can influence relationships.

Tamara has been married to Josh for seven years.They have three children,own a house together,and have many mutual friends.According to the investment model of commitment,Tamara may be hesitant to end her marriage,even if she is dissatisfied,because of

Jim was just convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol.He may be given a lighter jail sentence if he

Which of the following is most likely to be due to the mere exposure effect?

In a study conducted by Aron and his colleagues (2000),married couples engaged in one of two tasks: either they were tied together with Velcro and required to move a soft ball positioned between their heads across a long mat,or they each had to push a ball on their own across the mat with a stick.Couples in the first condition reported higher marital satisfaction after completing the task compared to couples in the second condition.How did the researchers interpret these results?

Identified by John Gottman and Robert Levenson (1999),the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse refer to

Recall that through either photographic or computer technology,researchers can make a composite (or "averaged")face out of any number of individual faces.When people are asked to rate the attractiveness of composite faces relative to individual faces,