AP PSYCH (MYERS UPDATED) UNIT 9 - Social Psychology [MODULE 79]

This form of behavior intends to help or benefit someone.

Prosocial Behavior

This term is considered one of friendship’s most powerful predictor and even the ability to breed a fondness or liking.

Proximity

This effect relies on proximity in order for our likings for that specific stimuli to increase.

Mere Exposure Effect

By age 3, infants usually prefer to see a photo of the race they most often see compared to photos of other races, this preference is an example of what?

Mere Exposure Effect

People trust and cooperate further with people that share similar facial feature to the person’s self, this is an example of what?

Mere Exposure Effect

This method was utilized by researchers to efficiently study influences on our first impressions of potential romantic partners.

Speed Dating

People who fear rejection are more likely to elicit rejection, as seen in speed dating studies where those who feared rejection were least often selected for follow-up.

Rejection Sensitivity

When given more options, people make more superficial choices, focusing on easily assessed traits like height and weight.

Choice Overload in Dating

What most affects our first impressions?

Appearance

Men wish for future contact with more speed dates than women, but this difference disappears when traditional roles are reversed.

Gender Differences in Speed Dating

People assume that _____________ people are healthier, happier, more sensitive, more successful, and more socially-linked.

Attractive

What matters more in a slow-cooked love?

Values

Which part of the body is the better predictor of overall physical attractiveness according to people?

Faces

The people who’s liking and love are more enduring are often the couples that are more ________

Alike

This theory suggests that individuals who’s behavior helps us achieve our goals are individuals we would more often be attracted to.

Reward Theory of Attraction

A state of intense, aroused romantic absorption of each other, present in the beginnings of each romantic relationship.

Passionate Love

This theory assumes that emotions have two ingredients, physical arousal and cognitive appraisal in addition to that arousal can enhance one’s emotions for one or the other.

Two Factor Theory of emotion

In a study where individuals were put in a rocky footbridge that was swaying, the individuals were offered by an attractive woman her phone number as they passed through the bridge, a greater number of individuals passing the rocky bridge would call back compared to individuals that were put in a stable bridge. This demonstrates the:

Passionate Love

What hormone is found in companionate love as the testosterone, dopamine, and adrenaline subside from passionate love?

Oxytocin

As love matures it becomes… a steadier…

Companionate Love

When both partners receive in proportion to what they give

Equity

This term breeds likings for each other as each individuals reveals parts of their intimate aspects of themselves to the other person, creating deeper intimacy.

Self-Disclosure