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4 a process that leads two individuals to share

increasingly personally significant details about
themselves. This is part of the process of increasing
intimacy in a relationship, but works only when both
parties of willing to share equally.
7 They include physical attractiveness, proximity,
similarity, and reciprocity: Physical attractiveness:
Research shows that romantic attraction is primarily
determined by physical attractiveness.
9 Human relationships are formed by the use of a
subjective cost-benefit analysis and the comparison of
alternatives. The theory has roots in economics,
psychology and sociology.
10 a term in psychology which describes the process
whereby people make a mistake in assuming what is
causing them to feel aroused.
11 a process of communication by which one person
reveals information about himself or herself to another.

12 the part of the autonomic nervous system that speeds

up bodily functions, but slows down digestion.
13 Cognition

14 He is best known for his work on intimacy in

interpersonal relationships, and development of the
self-expansion model of motivation in close
relationships.
15 an American social psychologist, who is perhaps best
known for his development of the two factor theory of
emotion in 1962
16 theory of emotion, states that emotion is based on two
factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label.

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1 a person's overall subjective emotional evaluation of
his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well
as an attitude toward the self.
2 the physiological and psychological state of being
awoken or of sense organs stimulated to a point of
perception
3 states that people like those whose behavior is
rewarding to them or whom they associate with
rewarding events.
5 a framework used by cognitive psychologists to explain
and describe mental processes.
 6 the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge
and comprehension. These processes include thinking,
knowing, remembering, judging and problem-solving.

8 the branch of psychology that deals with social

interactions, including their origins and their effects on
the individual.

WORD BANK: SYMPATHETICNERVOUSSYSTEM, STANLEYSCHACHTER,

SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY, SOCIALEXCHANGETHEORY, SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-
DISCLOSURE, SCHACHTER-TWOFACTOR, REWARDTHEORYOFATTRACTION,
PROCESSING, MIS-ATTRIBUTION, DISCLOSURERECIPROCITY, COGNITION,
COGNITION, ATTRACTION, ARTHURARON, AROUSAL

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