Module 17: Dissolution and loss and maintenance and repairing

Question 1

What is the length of search hypothesis?

Answer 1

If the length of search is too long, there are diminishing returns

Question 2

During the marshall study what were they trying to study?

Answer 2

To see if seeing peoples exs on social media prolongs their distress

Question 3

What did the marshall study find?

Answer 3

Found that participants were higher in negative affect, jealousy and breakup distress on days they observed their exs on socials media (along with the next day)

Question 4

when imagining their exs doing something what makes a partner more jealous?

Answer 4

Their social media page or them doing school/work.
Social media condition reported more negative affect and jealousy

Question 5

Why do children whose parents divorce experience lower levels of well-being?

Answer 5

Parental loss (might be going from two parents to one)
Parental stress
Economic Hardship: Poverty often hurts

Question 6

What is the most potent influence of children being effected by divorce?

Answer 6

Parental conflict
-associated with more anxiety, worse health, and more problematic behavior

Question 7

What happens when babies are sleeping and there parents are fighting ?

Answer 7

The regions of their brains that regulate emotion and stress respond more strongly to the sound of angry voices if the babies live in high-conflict homes

Question 8

What are relationship maintenance mechanisms?

Answer 8

the strategic actions people take to sustain their partnerships

Question 9

What are cognitive maintenance mechanisms?

Answer 9

people who are committed to a relationship perceive themselves, their partners, and their relationship in ways that help to sustain the relationship

Question 10

What is cognitive interdependence?

Answer 10

Committed partners think of themselves not as separate individuals but as a couple (We , us ours)

Question 11

What are positive illusions?

Answer 11

Partners idealize one another, judging others faults to be relatively trivial, the relationships deficiencies to be relatively unimportant and the partners misbehavior to be an unintentional or temporary aberration

Question 12

What is perceived superiority?

Answer 12

People consider their relationships to be better than most

Question 13

What is inattention to alternatives?

Answer 13

-Committed partners pay less attention to the other potential partners that are available to them
-They are relatively uninterested and unaware of how well they could be doing in alternative relationships

Question 14

What is derogation of tempting alternatives?

Answer 14

-When commited partners do notice attractive rivals to their relationships, they judge them to less desirable than others think them to be
-Commitment leads people to disparage those who could lure them away from their existing relationships

Question 15

What is willingness to sacrifice?

Answer 15

Committed people often make various personal sacrifices, doing things they would prefer not to do, or not doing things that they would like to do, in order to promote the well-being of their partners and their relationships

Question 16

What is Michelangelo phenomenon?

Answer 16

-Committed lovers also promote their partners’ growth, helping them become the people they want to be by supporting their development of desired new skills and endorsing their acceptance of promising new roles and responsibilities

Question 17

What is accomodation?

Answer 17

Committed partners also tend to swallow minor mistreatment from their partners without biting back
-They refrain from retaliation and instead respond constructively

Question 18

Explain Self-control in a relationship:

Answer 18

-Our abilities to withstand temptation, manage our impulses, and do the right thing are also important
-The more self-control two partners posses the smoother and more satisfying their relationship is likely to be

Question 19

How is play important to a relationship?

Answer 19

Committed partners find ways to engage in novel, challenging, exciting and pleasant activities together

Question 20

How is savoring important for relationships?

Answer 20

-Couples are more satisfied when they pay attention to shared pleasures, enjoying them more thoroughly through eager anticipation, alert attention as they unfold, and gratifying reminisce when they are done
-Intentionally savoring pleasant events in this manner magnifies and sustains their impact

Question 21

how do rituals assist in a relationship?

Answer 21

-Committed partners develop familiar routines that become traditions and symbolize and reinforce the partners’ identity as a couple
-The more small, private customs and comfortable habits a couple shares, the more intimate and satisfied they tend to be