PSYC 30 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Positive Illusions, Derogation, Attention

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

Document Summary

Maintaining & enhancing relationships: relationship maintenance mechanisms: strategic actions ppl take to sustain partnership, staying committed: ppl who are committed think & act differently than less committed ppl, cognitive maintenance mechanisms. Cognitive interdependence: perception of greater overlap btw partners life and their own; [us/we/our] vs. [i/me/mine), makes following maintenance mechanisms more likely to occur. Positive illusions: diminish partner"s faults to maintain positive global evaluations of them; good as long as within reason. Perceived superiority: when we are happy in a relationship, more likely to think our relationship is better than most/happier than most; thinking makes relationships more likely to last. Inattention to alternatives: uncommitted couples more likely to. Shop around and view alternatives w more eagerness, committed couples less likely to pay attention to alternatives. Accommodation: shallow minor mistreatment and respond constructively instead, does not involve martyrdom, only if offenses occasional/temp, helps avoid useless conflict, prefer to.