Exam 4 Social Practice

You are a regular contributor to an Internet chat room. One day the other participants seem to ignore every comment you make. Research suggests you will likely

• send rude and nasty comments to the chat room.

• become more independent and less conforming to others.

• lash out at your younger sibling once you finish your chat session.

• experience stress and a depressed mood.

Research on proximity and social attraction generally supports the view that

• familiarity breeds contempt.

• familiarity leads to liking.

• proximity leads to affection and animosity with equal frequency.

• distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Functional distance refers to

• the natural geographic route between two locations.

• the distance between residences “as the crow flies.”

• how often people’s paths cross.

• the direction and route of travel one undertakes when deliberately seeking out a given person.

If you are new in the office and want to make new friends, your best bet is to get a desk

• that is smaller than that of anyone else.

• in the quietest corner of the office.

• near where people hang out.

• next to the air conditioner.

Rosalinda, who is attractive, very intelligent, and high in social status, marries Jorge, who is also attractive, very intelligent, and high in social status. Their relationship is best understood as an example of

• the ingratiation effect.

• complementarity.

• the mere-exposure effect.

• the matching phenomenon.

Anticipatory liking—expecting that someone will be pleasant and compatible—increases the chance of

• becoming involved in an inequitable relationship.

• a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship.

• being exploited in the early stages of a relationship.

• forming a rewarding relationship.

In research conducted at the University of Warsaw, Lewicki (1985) asked students to choose which person in two photographs looked friendlier. Lewicki found that their choices were almost always influenced by whether or not the photographs

• were of men or women.

• looked like their own friends.

• were in color or black-and-white.

• reminded them of friendly or unfriendly experimenters.

Which theory suggests that love is a function of physiological arousal along with the label that we give to our arousal?

• triangle theory

• two-factor theory

• correspondent inference theory

• reward theory

Spouses are more likely than random paired people to share common attitudes, beliefs, and values. The _____ the similarity the _____ they are.

• greater; happier

• lesser; longer married

• greater; more chance for divorce

• lesser; happier

Psychologist Robert Sternberg views love as a triangle whose three sides include all BUT which of the following?

• attachment

• passion

• commitment

• intimacy