PEL Exam 3 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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close relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔those that are important, interdependent, and
long lasting
paradox of close relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔close relationships arouse intense
feelings that are both positive and negative
3 factors underlie initial attraction between strangers: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Proximity - geographically or spatially close to
2. Familiarity - mere exposure effect
3. Physical attractiveness
attraction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the initial desire to form a relationship
mere exposure effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the tendency for liking to increase with the
frequency of exposure
Matching Hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔proposes that people of similar levels of
physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other
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, Resource Exchange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in heterosexual dating, males 'trade'
occupational status for physical attractiveness in females
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David Buss - parental investment theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔states that a species'
mating patterns depend on what each sex has to invest—in the way of time,
energy, and survival risk—to produce and nurture offspring.
2 factors affect viability of relationship: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Reciprocal liking
2. Similarity
Reciprocal Liking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to liking those who show that they like
you
relationship maintenance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔involves the actions and activities used
to sustain the desired quality of a relationship
interdependence or social exchange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔states that the
decision is based on a "cost-benefit" analysis of the relationship's outcome. If the
rewards outweigh the costs, we stay.
comparison level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔personal standard of what constitutes an
acceptable balance of rewards and costs
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close relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔those that are important, interdependent, and
long lasting
paradox of close relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔close relationships arouse intense
feelings that are both positive and negative
3 factors underlie initial attraction between strangers: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Proximity - geographically or spatially close to
2. Familiarity - mere exposure effect
3. Physical attractiveness
attraction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the initial desire to form a relationship
mere exposure effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the tendency for liking to increase with the
frequency of exposure
Matching Hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔proposes that people of similar levels of
physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other
100% GUARANTEED PASS
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Resource Exchange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in heterosexual dating, males 'trade'
occupational status for physical attractiveness in females
2
David Buss - parental investment theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔states that a species'
mating patterns depend on what each sex has to invest—in the way of time,
energy, and survival risk—to produce and nurture offspring.
2 factors affect viability of relationship: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Reciprocal liking
2. Similarity
Reciprocal Liking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to liking those who show that they like
you
relationship maintenance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔involves the actions and activities used
to sustain the desired quality of a relationship
interdependence or social exchange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔states that the
decision is based on a "cost-benefit" analysis of the relationship's outcome. If the
rewards outweigh the costs, we stay.
comparison level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔personal standard of what constitutes an
acceptable balance of rewards and costs
100% GUARANTEED PASS
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
