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Chapter 9
Friendship & Love - PSYCH 203
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/12/2016

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Heterosexism
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Assumptions that everyone is heterosexual (Straight)
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Sexual Orientation
Definition
How a person acts with the same, different , and either gender
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Investments
Definition
Things people contribute to relationships that they can't get back
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Shyness
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Refers to discomfort when dealing with people
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Loneliness
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When friendships and relationships aren't satisfying or desired
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Commitment
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How one prevails through difficulties
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Proximity
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Geographic, residential, or any form of spatial closeness
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Comparison Level
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Personal standard of acceptable balance of rewards and costs
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Social Exchange theory
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The theory that personal relationships are controlled by costs and rewards
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Close Relationships
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Long Lasting , important relationships
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Mere exposure effect
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The effect of liking something more when your around it more
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Matching Hypothesis
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The theory that people of similar attractiveness gravitate towards each other
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Parental Investment Theory
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What you have to put into a relationship in order to get babies
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Reciporcal liking
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If someone likes you then your more inclined to like them back
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Relationship Maintainence
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Actions and activities used to sustain desired quality of relationship
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Comparison level for Alternatives
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Estimation of availible outcomes from alternative relationships
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Attachment Style
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Typical ways of interacting in close relationships
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Secure Attachment Style
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Easy to get close with people and don't worry about being abandoned
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Avoidant Attachment Style
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Somewhat uncomfortable being close to others , want others to be intimate then they feel like being
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Anxious / Avoidant
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Reluctant to get close with others , wants to completely merge with another person
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Passion
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Intense feelings hat is experienced both negative and positive
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Intimacy
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Closeness in a sharing relationship
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David Buss
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Proposed that people have different reproductive strategies
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