FINALS - PDEV

• Positive stimulation, Emotional support, Social Comparison Information, Attention from other people


  Why do we affiliate with others?
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs


  What is the best known theory of motivation?
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs


  suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs
• 1.) People need frequent personal contacts or interactions with the other person

  2.) People need to perceive that there is an interpersonal bond or relationship marked by stability, affective concern, and foreseeable future

  Two main features of the need to belong
• Positive Stimulation (Reward Theory)


  people will like those other people whose behaviors are rewarding to them, or whom they can associate rewarding events
• Emotional Support


  involves having a network of family and friends that you can turn to in times ofneed
• Social Comparison Information


  involves people coming to know themselves by evaluating their own attitudes, abilities, and traits in comparison with others
• Upward Social Comparison


  when people compare themselves to someone they perceive to be superior
• Downward Social Comparison


  defined by making a comparison with someone perceived to be inferior
• Validation


  is the recognition and acceptance of another person's thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviors as understandable
• Attention from others


  People get attention from others and fulfill the need for approval
• Self-validation


  is the recognition and acceptance of your own thoughts, feelings, sensations and behaviors as understandable
• Transference effect, Propinquity effect, Similarity, Reciprocity, Personality characteristics and traits, Physical Attractiveness

  6 types of attraction and Relationship Formation
• Transference effect


  Usually these people remind us of someone in the past who has affected our sense of self and behavior
• Propinquity Effect


  We often develop a sense of familiarity with people who live close to us
• Similarity


  We are often attracted to like-minded persons and those who have similar beliefs and values as ours
• Reciprocity


  The more we are liked by someone we equally like, the more we behave in ways that promote mutual feelings of likings
• Personality Characteristics and Trait

  People get attracted to characteristics that equally lead to liking the person
• Physical Attractiveness


  suggest that people tend to view physical attractive more positively that others. Presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits as well
• Mere Exposure Effect


  the tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them.
• Anticipatory Liking


  expecting that someone will be pleasant and compatible
• Ostracism


  Technical term used to describe being rejected and ignored by other people
• Hypothalamus


  releases dopamine into the body, causing feelings of ecstasy and excitement
• Dopamine


  acts on areas of the brain to give you feelings of pleasure, satisfaction and motivation
• Serotonin


  is responsible for a person's mood and appetite, among other things
• Increases, Decreases


  As dopamine level ______________, serotonin level _______________
• Nerve Growth Factor


  Along with dopamine, the body also produces a substance called
• newly in love


  NGF is more prevalent in people who are
• Oxytocin, Vasopressin


  _______________ and ______________ are responsible for feelings of connection and commitment
• Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love

  The three components of love came from
• Intimacy, Passion, Commitment


  What are the three components of love?
• Intimacy


  refers to closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships
• Passion


  refers to drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomenon in loving relationships
• Decision/Commitment


  Refers, in the short term, to the decision that one loves a certain other, and in the long term, to one's commitment to maintain that love
• Romantic Love


  Intimacy + Passion
• Companionate love


  Intimacy + Commitment
• Fatuous Love


  Passion + Commitment
• Consummate love


  Intimacy + Commitment + Passion
• Passionate Love


  If we experience this kind of love, we express it physically, we expect the relationship to be exclusive, and we are intensely fascinated with our partner
• Companionate Love


  The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined