Module 5: Attraction

Question 1

What is ecological momentary assessment?

Answer 1

Research measure: Uses short, intermittent periods of observation to capture samples of behaviour that occur over long periods of time. (Like an audio recorder that goes off every few minutes)

Question 2

What are the four principles of attraction?

Answer 2

Proximity: Liking those near us
Physical Attraction: Liking those who are lovely
Reciprocity: Liking those who like us
Similarity: Liking those who are like us

Question 3

We like those who reward us either because they provide us:

Answer 3

-Direct rewards by treating us well
-Indirect rewards, by being associated with things we like

Question 4

What is the difference between direct and indirect rewards?

Answer 4

Direct rewards: Treating us well
Indirect Rewards: Being associated with things we like

Question 5

What is instrumentality?

Answer 5

The extent to which someone is able to help us achieve our present goals (We’re attracted to other who can help us get what we currently want)

Question 6

True or False: Small distances have a larger influence on our relationships than most of us realize

Answer 6

True: Survey taken in uni dorm, named someone living 1 door down as being there closest friend in the building 41 percent of the time

Question 7

True or False: Close partners are able to provide us with more benefits at a lesser expense then distant partners

Answer 7

True

Question 8

When does proximity and familiarity decreases liking?

Answer 8

Proximity and familiarity can cause complications and make things worse when:
-People live near others who are disagreeable or obnoxious
-People who have met online come face-to-face for the first time
-Partners in a long-distance relationship are reunited after some time apart (Most long distance partners break up within 3 months of coming back together)

Question 9

What is the halo effect?

Answer 9

We tend to assume automatically that people who are physically attractive also have other desirable traits

Question 10

Research found that people believed that attractive people were more likely then unattractive people to:

Answer 10

be kind, interesting, sociable, sensitive

Question 11

True or False: Attractive people earn higher salaries and are promoted more often at work

Answer 11

true

Question 12

True or False: there is a lot of disagreement from culture to culture about what is physically attractive

Answer 12

False: More agreement than disagreement from culture to culure

Question 13

In the marcus and miller study a group of 8 uni students rated each others attractiveness did they agree or not?

Answer 13

There was quite a bit of consensus among perceivers

Question 14

Around the world name the qualities that makes people think a women is attractive:

Answer 14

-Baby-featured features that large eyes, small nose, full lips
-sign of maturity such as prominent cheekbones, narrow cheeks and a broad smile

Question 15

Why is male attractiveness more complicated?

Answer 15

People like:
-strong jaws and broad foreheads but they also like feminized male faces

Question 16

What are the two qualities that attractive faces in both sexes are?

Answer 16

Average: possessing dimensions that are neither too large or too small
Symmetrical