PSY 0105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pluralistic Ignorance, Proxemics, Victim Blaming
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Proximity: we become friends with people because they are convenient. Mere exposure effect: the more you are exposed to something, the more you will like it. Matching phenomenon: the tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a good match in attractiveness and other traits. Physical attractiveness stereotype: the presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits as well. Complementarity: the popularity supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other. Ingratiation: the use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain another"s favor. Reward theory of attraction: the theory that we like those whoses behavior is rewarding to us or whom we associate with rewarding events. Revved up men respond to a woman differently because they misattribute their arousal to her. Know sternberg"s three components of love (intimacy, passion, commitment)
