PSYCH101 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anxiety, Sigmund Freud, Memory
11 Oct 2018
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PSYCH101
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Fall 2018
The Dating Game
Social Psychology
• Study of social behaviour within a group
Social Exchange: The Dating Marketplace
• Men Seek
o Attractiveness
o Youth
o Fertility
• Women Offer (self-describe)
o Attractiveness
o Youth
o Fertility
• Women Seek
o Masculinity
o Maturity
o Affluence (well-educated, employed)
• Men Offer
o Maturity
o Commitment
o Affluence
Evolution of Dating
• Inclusive Fitness
o The basic motive of evolution
o To pass on our genes
o A “biological imperative”
o Must do 3 things to be successful:
1) Survive to sexual maturity
2) Procreate
3) Get offspring to sexual maturity
• Optimal Strategy for Women
o Genetic packet – ova (eggs)
o Availability – 1 per month
o Life supply – approximately 400, minus 9 for each success
o Optimal strategy – selective, get the best possible partner
• Optimal Strategy for Men
o Genetic packet – sperm
o Availability – millions per minute
o Life supply – infinite
o Optimal strategy – opportunistic, as many as possible as often as possible
• The Family Option: A Social Exchange
o Men abandon opportunistic strategy for paternal investment
o Women provide sexual exclusivity
▪ Men gain paternal certainty for their investment
o Men want healthy, young mate for maximum reproduction opportunities
o Women want strong, intelligent mate for protection, security, and resources
• Dating Rituals
o Women determine “shopping list” of desirable attributes
▪ Genetic pressure is on the women!
o Women create male competition
o Men demonstrate suitability as husband and father
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o Women select “winners”
• Attractive Physiques
o Women = hourglass, shiny hair, smooth skin (youth)
o Men = triangle
• The Beauty Bias
o THE most important factor in initial attraction
o Positive Stereotypes
▪ “You can tell a book by its cover”
▪ Are seen as healthy, happy, successfully, and socially skilled
o Physical beauty is correlated with:
▪ More friends, more dates
▪ Other social advantages (e.g., occupational, judicial)
• The Downside of Beauty
o Maintenance
▪ Social advantage with an “expiry date”
o Negative stereotypes
▪ Dumb, vain, arrogant
▪ Object of envy, jealousy
o Self-esteem dilemma
▪ Discounting a praise and positive feedback
Top 10 List
• Women’s Choices of Most Attractive Male Acts
o He wears attractive outfits
o He exercises
o He keeps a healthy appearance
o He showers daily
o He offers to help
o He makes an effort to spend a lot of time with me
o He keeps himself well-groomed
o He has good manners
o He is sympathetic to my troubles
o He has a good sense of humour
• Men’s Choices of Most Attractive Female Acts
o She offers to help
o She wears stylish, fashionable clothes
o She makes an effort to spend time with me
o She makes up jokes to make me laugh
o She keeps physically fit and healthy looking
o She showers daily
o She has good manners
o She is sympathetic to my troubles
o She keeps herself well-groomed
o She has a good sense of humour
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Social psychology: study of social behaviour within a group. Social exchange: the dating marketplace: men seek, attractiveness, youth, fertility, women offer (self-describe, attractiveness, youth, fertility, women seek, masculinity, maturity, affluence (well-educated, employed, men offer, maturity, commitment, affluence. Affective development: attachment theory: two dominant theories of psychodynamic and behaviourist. Infant given access to surrogate mothers: wire mother, cloth mother, manipulates what mothers do, wire mother provides essentials of life (lamp, bottle of milk, cloth mother doesn"t provide anything except comfort from cloth, conducts several experiments. Harlow"s results: cloth mother is security blanket. Harlow"s conclusions: emotional attachment is primary motivational need that serves evolutionary purposes, support for principle of monotropy. Infants are genetically programmed to form an attachment with one responsive caregiver: most cases the mother. John bowlby attachment theory significant giver: wanted to see if harlow"s work was with actual humans, try to replicate harlow"s with humans.
