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PSY 455 Chapter 1
Mate Preferences
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social context frameworks | Mate selection influenced by forces located in the contemporary social, cultural, and historical environments. |
| Social exchange or equity models | Individuals attempt to maximize their rewards and make social interaction as profitable as possible by exchanging their own assets for desirable attributes in a partner. |
| social role theory | People develop expectations for their own and for other’s behavior based on beliefs about sex-appropriate behavior and attributes. |
| social and cultural scripts | normative expectations that define and organize social experience and are used to guide and assess social behavior. |
| social learning processes | include the patterns of reinforcement and punishment that people receive for their romantic and sexual behavior |
| sexual regimes | consist of culturally specific normative orientations and traditions associated with sexuality. |
| evolutionary models | Several considerations influences a person's selection of a suitable mate. Evolutionary psychology indicates that characteristics that people seek in mates depend on their sex and whether it is a short-term or a long-term mating. |
| adaptive problems | human mind is believed to be designed to solve these. -recurrent issues in human evolutionary history that had implications for reproduction and survival |
| emotional fitness | Successful pair bonding and child rearing require selection of mate to provide sustained emotional and social support. -genetic legacy: mates desired who have the ability and willingness to emotionally commit to the reproductive partner. |
| physical or genetic fitness | -Selecting mate who is sexually mature, healthy and capable of reproduction. -In so much as physical appearance is “outside” indicator of underlying genetic fitness. |
| relational fitness | -Mates ability to to become exclusively attached, ignoring temptations of others. -Confine reproduction behaviors - emotional, sexual, economic, social to primary mate. |
| Social fitness | Selection of mate with ties to existing community, some degree of status in that community, and ability to provide tangible resources (food, shelter, and physical protection. |
| parental investment-based models | hypothesize that women, who invest more direct physiological resources in their offspring than do men will be more sensitive to resource limitations and thus will be particularly attentive to a reproductive partner's social fitness. |
| self-report methologies | Ranking procedure: participants ordered or organized features in terms of their importance or desirability. Rating: evaluate the importance or desirability of features. %ranking: how much they would like a partner to possess relative to other same-sex |
| content analyses | attempt to identify the partner attributes people seek. |
| social allergens | undesirable partner attributes -what men and women are repulsed by: violating social norms and rules of conduct or oversexed, or uncouth habits |
| mate value | people moderate their mate preferences to take into account their own desirability or ___ |
| Traits for a long-term romantic partner | 1. prosocial personality attributes 2. characteristics related to intellect and mental drive 3. physically apppealling attributes 4. similarity 5. characteristics related to social status. |
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