PSYC 30 Study Guide - Final Guide: Psych

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 30
• Professor: Taylor

Document Summary

Getting acceptance/support from someone, they give you gifts: costs: punishing/undesirable experiences in an interaction. Regrets in relationship, frustration with partner, paying for dates. Comparison level: what we want/expect in a relationship, we all have standard/expectation of what we want/deserve: can be influenced by past relationship, ex. Satisfaction/happiness: if your relationship outcome (rewards-costs) exceed cl you will be happy, degree of your happiness depends on how much outcome has exceeded cl. If we are unhappy in relationship our clalt must be better than outcome for us to leave (otherwise there are no decent alternatives we won"t leave) If we are happy in relationship (good outcomes), we can still leave if. Clalt high; may be happy w outcome but if alternative even better, will go with best option. Dependence on relationship: our clalt is impacted by: investments we would be losing by changing our partner, our perception of our options/alternatives.