Explain the effect of proximity on attraction
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
1) Proximity is the physical closeness of individuals.
2) Proximity produces repeated exposures.
3) Repeated exposure, even to a mildly negative stimulus, results in increasingly positive evaluations.
4) This is sometimes called the mere exposure effect.
5) This process can function without conscious awareness of the exposure.
6) The concept of proximity can be used a) to meet people in social settings, and b) to design buildings to encourage or discourage interactions.
You might also like to view...
What is one reason that the prevalence of dissociative identity disorder (DID) has been increasing?
A. Children in today's society are far more likely to experience severe trauma than they were in the past. B. DID has only recently received full acceptance by the psychiatric community, and thus professionals are now using this diagnosis. C. As of 1980, most insurance companies had to accept DID as a billable diagnosis. D. It may be that the prevalence of DID has not changed at all, but that clinicians may unknowingly encourage the emergence of new identities.
When asked, "Do you feel that you have reached adulthood?" the majority of emerging adults respond: ____
a. Yes. b. No. c. In some ways. d. I've felt like an adult for years.