Chapter 12 - Intimacy - Definitions Flashcards
Arranged marriage
A marriage in which family members, typically parents, choose a partner for a person to marry.
Assortative mating
The tendency to choose a partner who is similar to oneself on one or more characteristics.
Commitment
In the short term, the decision that one person loves another. In the long term, the decision to maintain the love that one has for another person.
Companionate love
Affection and tenderness felt for someone with whom one’s life is deeply connected.
Cybersex
Sexual activity that takes place via the Internet.
Habituation
A decrease in behavioral response to a repeated stimulus. Sexual habituation occurs when increased accessibility to a partner and predictability in sexual interactions leads to reduced sexual interest.
Homophily
The principle that we are more likely to have contact and affiliate with people who are similar to us.
Hooking up
Casual sex interactions with no strings attached.
Infidelity
Engaging in sexual and/or emotional relations with someone who is not one’s primary partner when in a monogamous relationship.
Intimacy
Feelings of closeness and connection that one feels with someone they love.
Jealousy
A negative emotional response to potential or actual rejection from a partner or to loss of a relationship due to a rival.
Love stories
Stories that express different conceptions about what love is like.
Mere-repeated-exposure effect
The tendency for repeated exposure to a stimulus (e.g., another person) to increase our preference for that stimulus.
Misattribution of arousal
When physiological arousal stemming from one state (e.g., fear) is misinterpreted as stemming from another state (e.g., love).
Netiquette
Rules outlining acceptable and unacceptable Internet activities.
