Chapter 12 Sex

Front 1

Romantic love is the basis for marriage in most cultures

Back 1

False

Front 2

In western culture, romantic love is separate from sexual desire

Back 2

False

Front 3

In terms of attachment styles the most common romantic pairing is a secure-secure matching

Back 3

True

Front 4

The least common attachment style is the avoidant style

Back 4

False

Front 5

People rate best friends and lovers similarly on characteristics such as acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, and understanding

Back 5

True

Front 6

According to Lee, love-styles are fixed and repetitive

Back 6

False

Front 7

As a general rule, people are most attracted to opposites

Back 7

False

Front 8

The decision and commitment to love another person without intimacy or passion is experienced as empty love accoring to Sternberg

Back 8

True

Front 9

Once of the major predictors of marital success is the number or pleasurable activities couple shares

Back 9

True

Front 10

The ludus love-style is a strong negative predictor of relationship satisfaction

Back 10

True

Front 11

Feelings of romantic love are associated with the release of amphetamine-like chemicals in the brain

Back 11

True

Front 12

Self-disclosure is always important in a relationship but it is not necessary that both individuals self disclose

Back 12

False

Front 13

Men and women are most liekly to become jealous if they perceive a partner to be sexually unfaithful

Back 13

False

Front 14

Romantic love tends to be unconditional

Back 14

False

Front 15

Anthropologists have found that romantic love is an idealized notion that is found almost exclusively in industrialized culture where emphasis is on the individual

Back 15

False

Front 16

In order for a couple to become more intimate, it is important for them to withhold their negative feelings about each other

Back 16

False

Front 17

Fatuous love in Sternberg's model most closely resembles _____ in Lee's theoretical model

Back 17

Ludus

Front 18

Companionate love in Sternberg's model most closely resembles ____ in Lee's theoretical model

Back 18

Storage

Front 19

Infatuated love in Sternberg's model most closely resembles _____ in Lee's theoretical model

Back 19

Mania

Front 20

Saint Augustine's idea of love is probably closest to _____ in Lee's theoretical model

Back 20

Agale

Front 21

Elaine Hatfield has suggested that couples can achieve greater intimacy by

Back 21

Both individuals accept themselves as they are
Both recognize the other as they are
Each feels comfortable to express themself
Learning to deal with the partner's reactions

Front 22

Companionate love is often referred to as ____ love because it is not based on the fantasies and ideals of romantic love

Back 22

realistic

Front 23

From culture to culture and in different time periods the concept of romantic love has one thing in common the _____ of another

Back 23

Idealization

Front 24

_____ is defined as "a state of intense longing for union with another... a state of profound psyciological arousal"

Back 24

Passionate love

Front 25

Barnes and Sternberg's hierarchical model says that love is composed of two main clusters of features, which they ID as _____ and ______

Back 25

Passionate love
Companionate love

Front 26

Three things that commonly occur during breakups are _______, _______, and having to deal with the fact that you ex partner is still around

Back 26

Obsessive review
Emotional and social loneliness