PSYCO347 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Protection Mechanism, Histology, Positive Affectivity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO347
• Professor: Jennifer Passey

Document Summary

Chapter 8: thinking and feeling this chapter focuses on the related topics of relationship cognition and relationship affect that is, on the perceptions, attributions, beliefs, and thoughts (cognition), and the feelings, sentiments, and emotions (affect) Developed the most thorough measure of romantic beliefs. Idealization (cid:862)the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship (cid:449)ith (cid:373)(cid:455) t(cid:396)ue lo(cid:448)e (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e (cid:374)ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) pe(cid:396)fe(cid:272)t(cid:863) As people go about their lives, they interpret situations they encounter in a self-centered, self- aggrandizing, and self-justifying way: for example, the majority of men and women possess unrealistically positive self-views. However, after being hurt by a partner, those same men and women accentuated the extent of the harm they had suffered and were relatively unwilling to a(cid:272)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge the pa(cid:396)t(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s positi(cid:448)e effo(cid:396)ts to ato(cid:374)e fo(cid:396) the t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sg(cid:396)essio(cid:374) People tend to idealize the characteristics of their intimate partners and relationships. A large body of research reveals that most of us: Perceive our own relationship as superior to the relationship of others.