FMST 314 UBC Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
First impressions - ✔✔When we first meet others, we jump to conclusions and
stereotypes and primary effects shape our overall impressions. Early impressions
matter because any existing judgment is likely to influence our interpretations.
Confirmation biases affect our selection of subsequent data, and overconfidence
leads us to put unwarranted faith in our judgments.
The power of perceptions - ✔✔there are often a variety of ways to interpret a
given event in a close relationship, and the partners perspective can be very
consequential
idealizing our partners - ✔✔the explanations we generate for why things happen
are called attributions. Partners are affected by actor/observer effects and self-
serving biases, and they tend to employ either relationship-enhancing or distress-
maintaining patterns of attribution
memories - ✔✔we edit memories as time goes by. this process of reconstructive
memory helps couples stay optimistic about their futures
relationship beliefs - ✔✔romanticism is the view that love should be the most
important basis for choosing a mate. its innocuous, but dysfunctional relationship
beliefs such as destiny beliefs are clearly disadvantageous. growth beliefs are
more realistic and profitable
expectations - ✔✔our expectations about others can become self-fulfilling
prophesies, false predictions that make themselves come true. This happens
because people typically act in ways that fit their expectations, and they can elicit
reactions from others that would not have occurred had the perceivers not
created them.
,self-perceptions - ✔✔our self-concepts encompass all of the beliefs and feelings
we have about ourselves. Durring interaction, we seek reactions from others that
are self-enhancing and complimentary and that are consistent with what we
already think of ourselves-but self-verification leads people to seek intimate
partners who support their existing self -concepts
impression management - ✔✔because others impressions are so important,
people engage in impression management trying to influence the impressions of
them that others form
strategies of impression management - ✔✔four different strategies of impression
management: Ingratiation, self-promotion, intimidation, and supplication
impression management in close relationship - ✔✔we work less hard to present
favorable images to our intimate partners than to others, but we often take pains
to create desirable images of our partners. go to lengths to present particular
image of partner. Individual differences in self-monitoring are influential because
high self-monitors surround themselves with activity specialists and are less
committed to their romantic partners
how well do we know our partners? - ✔✔we generally do not understand our
partners as well as we think we do
knowledge - ✔✔as a relationship develops and partners spend more time
together, they typically do understand each other better
, motivation - ✔✔the interest and motivation with which people try to figure each
other out helps to determine how insightful and accurate they will be
partner legibility - ✔✔some personality traits, such as extraversion, are more
visible than others
perceiver ability - ✔✔some judges are better than others, too. emotional
intelligence is important in this regard
threatening perceptions - ✔✔when accurate perceptions would be worrisome,
intimate partners may actually be motivated to be inaccurate in order to fend off
doubts about their relationship
perceiver influence. - ✔✔intimate partners are continually shaping each others
behavior, and perceptions that are initially inaccurate may become more correct
as we induce our partners to become the people we want them to be
A brief history of love - ✔✔different societies have held very different
perspectives on love. Today, the belief that people should marry for love is widely
accepted in north america, but not in many other regions of the world
types of love - ✔✔by Robert Sternberg, the triangular theory of love. suggests
that intimacy, passion and commitment combine to produce eight different types
love
romantic, passionate love - ✔✔intimacy and passion combine to form romantic
love. studies of excitation transfer find that passion increases when a person
First impressions - ✔✔When we first meet others, we jump to conclusions and
stereotypes and primary effects shape our overall impressions. Early impressions
matter because any existing judgment is likely to influence our interpretations.
Confirmation biases affect our selection of subsequent data, and overconfidence
leads us to put unwarranted faith in our judgments.
The power of perceptions - ✔✔there are often a variety of ways to interpret a
given event in a close relationship, and the partners perspective can be very
consequential
idealizing our partners - ✔✔the explanations we generate for why things happen
are called attributions. Partners are affected by actor/observer effects and self-
serving biases, and they tend to employ either relationship-enhancing or distress-
maintaining patterns of attribution
memories - ✔✔we edit memories as time goes by. this process of reconstructive
memory helps couples stay optimistic about their futures
relationship beliefs - ✔✔romanticism is the view that love should be the most
important basis for choosing a mate. its innocuous, but dysfunctional relationship
beliefs such as destiny beliefs are clearly disadvantageous. growth beliefs are
more realistic and profitable
expectations - ✔✔our expectations about others can become self-fulfilling
prophesies, false predictions that make themselves come true. This happens
because people typically act in ways that fit their expectations, and they can elicit
reactions from others that would not have occurred had the perceivers not
created them.
,self-perceptions - ✔✔our self-concepts encompass all of the beliefs and feelings
we have about ourselves. Durring interaction, we seek reactions from others that
are self-enhancing and complimentary and that are consistent with what we
already think of ourselves-but self-verification leads people to seek intimate
partners who support their existing self -concepts
impression management - ✔✔because others impressions are so important,
people engage in impression management trying to influence the impressions of
them that others form
strategies of impression management - ✔✔four different strategies of impression
management: Ingratiation, self-promotion, intimidation, and supplication
impression management in close relationship - ✔✔we work less hard to present
favorable images to our intimate partners than to others, but we often take pains
to create desirable images of our partners. go to lengths to present particular
image of partner. Individual differences in self-monitoring are influential because
high self-monitors surround themselves with activity specialists and are less
committed to their romantic partners
how well do we know our partners? - ✔✔we generally do not understand our
partners as well as we think we do
knowledge - ✔✔as a relationship develops and partners spend more time
together, they typically do understand each other better
, motivation - ✔✔the interest and motivation with which people try to figure each
other out helps to determine how insightful and accurate they will be
partner legibility - ✔✔some personality traits, such as extraversion, are more
visible than others
perceiver ability - ✔✔some judges are better than others, too. emotional
intelligence is important in this regard
threatening perceptions - ✔✔when accurate perceptions would be worrisome,
intimate partners may actually be motivated to be inaccurate in order to fend off
doubts about their relationship
perceiver influence. - ✔✔intimate partners are continually shaping each others
behavior, and perceptions that are initially inaccurate may become more correct
as we induce our partners to become the people we want them to be
A brief history of love - ✔✔different societies have held very different
perspectives on love. Today, the belief that people should marry for love is widely
accepted in north america, but not in many other regions of the world
types of love - ✔✔by Robert Sternberg, the triangular theory of love. suggests
that intimacy, passion and commitment combine to produce eight different types
love
romantic, passionate love - ✔✔intimacy and passion combine to form romantic
love. studies of excitation transfer find that passion increases when a person
