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What are the different types of love?
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passionate, compassionate, fatuous
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What are some characteristics of passionate love?
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intense arousal
unrealistic evaluations desire to spend as much time as possible with the loved one cognitive preoccupation and intense absorption with the loved one relatively short lived |
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What is Stenberg's Triangular theory of love?
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Sternberg (1988) concept of love is based on Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. How these three factors combine determine what type of love appears: Romantic, Companionate, Passionate (Fatuous). The "ideal" lovetype is Consummate Love, which combines all three factors.
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What are the three primary love styles?
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Lee (1988) Hendrick & Hendrick (1993) proposed three primary love styles: eros (passion), ludus (game playing), and storage (friendship) which become combined in loving relationship.
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What are the components of passionate love?
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presence of a person of the opposite sex who is appropriate as a love object in terms of attractiveness, age, height, etc.
Cultural background in which person has learned about love and expects it to happen Physiological arousal that is interpreted as love and given that label If a male or female is aroused in the presence of another person of the opposite sex, they attribute their arousal to that person, and they interpret their arousal as passion. |
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What is misattribution theory? How does it relate to love? what experiments have been done to test this?
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If a male or female is aroused in the presence of another person of the opposite sex, they attribute their arousal to that person, and they interpret their arousal as passion. Dutton & Aron wobbly bridge test.
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What is Compassionate Love?
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a deep, affectionate attachment. Warm and dependable, unlike the fires of passion.
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How can we explain love at first sight?
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Past memories are altered over time. Misattribution.
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What 4 factors influence close relationships?
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attachment, equity, self-disclosure, and commitment
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How does Self-Disclosure help relationships? What are three factors which make a person effective at eliciting disclosure?
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Deep, Compassionate relationships allow us to feel accepted for who we are.
An important part in the growth of a relationship is the self-disclosure process.The nature of the disclosures steadily progresses in a increasing fashion, due to disclosure reciprocity. Disclosures should gradually increase in depth as a relationship progresses. Carl Rogers (1980) identified three factors which made a person effective at eliciting disclosure: people who seem to genuine in revealing their own feelings people who are accepting of other people’s feelings people who are empathetic and sensitive listeners |
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What are some Gender differences in falling in out of love?
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Men fall in love more readily than women, and fall out of love more slowly and are less likely than women to break up a premarital romance. Once in love, women are typically as emotionally involved as their partners, or more so. Women are more focused on the intimacy of the friendship and concern for their partner. Men think more about the playful and physical aspects of the relationship
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Explain the importance of Equity in relationships.
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Equity: It is important for each partner in a relationship to feel that they bring something of value to the relationship. People who feel they are in a one sided relationship feel more distress within the relationship than partners who feel they play an equal role.
Often, when people perceive a relationship to be unequal, they will end the relationship. |
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What are some characteristics of couples who remain married?
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The couple was married after the age of twenty
Date a long time before marriage are well educated enjoy a stable income Live in a small town or a farm Do not cohabitate or get pregnant before marriage Are actively religious |
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What is the detachment process:
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Detaching is a process not an event. The closer and long the relationship and the few the available alternatives the more painful the breakup. Constructive: Loyalty Passive: await improvement, Active: seek to improve relationships. Deconstructive: neglect. Passive: ignore the partner Active: end the relationship. Often love does not endure.
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