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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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What Is Love?

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Difficult to define

  • special attitudes behaviorally and emotionally
  • varies with people and difficult to measure
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Rubin’s Triple Love Scale

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  • Attachment
  • Caring
  • Intimacy
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Types of Love

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  • Passionate Love
  • Companionate Love
  • Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
  • Lee’s Style of Loving
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Passionate Love (Short Lasting)

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Extreme absorption in another; also romantic love

  • characterized by intense feelings of tenderness, anxiety, and sexual desire
  • physiological arousal including increased heartbeat, blushing, stomach churning, perspiration, and excitement
  • occurs early in the relationship (months not years)
  • look over one’s faults and avoid conflicts
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Companionate Love (Long Lasting)

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Friendly affection and deep attachment by appreciation of one’s partner

  • tolerance for one’s faults and overcome them together
  • sex is what pleases your companion, which builds communication
  • less intense
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love (Further look of Passionate and Companionate Love)

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  • Passion
  • Intimacy
  • Commitment
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Triangle Of Love Extended

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  • Liking (Intimacy Alone)
  • Infatuation (Passion Alone)
  • Empty Love (Commitment Alone)
  • Romantic Love (Intimacy/Passion)
  • Companionate Love (Intimacy/Commitment)
  • Fatuous Love (Passion/Commitment)

Consummate Love (Intimacy/Passion/Commitment)

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Passion (Excitement)

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Motivational component that fuels romantic feelings, physical attraction, and desire for sexual interaction
- starts high then decreases rapidly through time to a low constant state

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Intimacy (Sharing)

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Emotional component of love encompassing sense of being bonded with another person
- constant growth through time

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Commitment (Dedicated)

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Thinking component of loving another to maintain a relationship over time despite difficulties
- slow start and grows rapidly through time to remain at a high constant state

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Lee’s Style of Loving

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Six different styles of loving:

  • romantic (Eros)
  • game-playing (Ludus)
  • possessive (Mania)
  • companionate (Storge)
  • altruistic (Agape)
  • pragmatic (Pragma)
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Falling In Love

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Neurotransmitters

  • norepinephrine (breathing increases)
  • dopamine (affects mood)
  • phenylethylamine (chocolate high)

Hormones
- oxytocin (cuddling)

There can be a withdrawal of all of this

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Proximity

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Geographic nearness of one person to another, which is an important factor in a interpersonal attraction

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Mere Exposure Effect

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Phenomenon in which explains to us why we are attracted to people in proximity to us

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Similarity

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Beliefs, interests, race, ethnicity, and values, which is a factor in attracting people to one another

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Reciprocity

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When we receive expressions of liking or loving, we tend to respond the same

  • increases self-esteem
  • increases relationship length
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Physical Attractiveness

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Physical beauty, which is a powerful factor in attracting lovers to each other

  • early stage of a relationship
  • good physical health
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Sociobiology

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Behavior explained by evolutionary needs

  • Men attracted to young attractive females to maximize reproductive success
  • Women attracted to older, established men to maximize their reproductive success
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Self-Love

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  • Genuine interest, concern, respect for self

- Before a satisfying relationship with others

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Attachment

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Intense emotional tie between two individuals
- Secure Attachment: trust the person, and understand them
- Insecure Attachment: Two Types
Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment: think they’ll leave and never come back/ don’t care as much, passive aggressive
Avoidant-Attachment: afraid and avoidant

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Hook-Ups

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Short-term, loveless sexual connections that occur during a brief time
- issue between love and sex

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Friends With Benefits Relationships

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Sexual interaction between friends who do not define their relationship as romantic

  • desire a transition into a stable, romantic relationship
  • issue between love and sex
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Phases Of A Relationship

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Inclusion: invitation to relate
Response: agreeing to relate
Care: concern for others' welfare
Trust: support and care for each other
Affection: warmth and attachment
Playfulness: delight in each other
Genitality: decision to engage in sex
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Sex And Relationships On Your Terms

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  • Knowing and asking for what you want
  • Friendships without sex
  • Saying “not yet” to sex
  • Ending a relationship
  • Managing rejection
  • You just want to have sex
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Jealousy

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Emotional reaction caused by a real or imagined relationship involving one’s partner and a third person
- fear of losing what they want to control, than fall in love

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Women Jealousy

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  • jealous of her partner’s emotional involvement with another
  • blame themselves
  • more inclined about jealousy then men
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Men Jealousy

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  • jealousy of his partner’s sexual involvement with another
  • jealousy goes to third party or to their partner’s behavior
  • provoke jealousy less than women
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Lasting Love Relationships

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  • Your partner is your best friend
  • Communication between one another
  • Companionship by sharing your interests and doing many activities together
  • Sexual sharing and sexual attraction to your partner
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Sexual Variety: Important Ingredient

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  • Communication in change for the two of you
  • Make love in various places
  • Planning and spur of the moment love is exciting and bonding full
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Mutual Empathy

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Each partner in a relationship care for the other and knows that the care is shared

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Communication: Getting Started

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  • Talking about sex
  • Reading and discussing
  • Sharing sexual histories
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Listening and Feedback

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  • Active listener
  • Maintain eye contact
  • Provide feedback
  • Support partner’s communication efforts
  • Express unconditional positive regard
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Discovering Your Partner’s Needs

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  • Asking questions
  • Self-disclosure
  • Discussing sexual preferences
  • Giving permission
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Yes/No Question

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Question that asks for a one word answer and thus provides little opportunity for discussing an issue

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Open-Ended Question

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Question that allows a respondent to share and feelings or information she or he thinks is appropriate

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Either-Or Question

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Question that allows statement of preference

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Self-Disclosure

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  • personal disclosures require give and take
  • open up to partner about how you feel on sex
  • internet relationships reveal dishonesty and no physical attractiveness
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Discussing Sexual Preferences

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  • this draws a couple closer to finding out their pleasure able activities
  • might discuss their feelings after sex
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Giving Permission

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Providing reassurance to one’s partner that it is okay to talk about specific feelings or needs

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Making Requests

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  • Taking responsibility for our own pleasure
  • Making requests specific
  • Using “I” language
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Strategies For Expressing Complaints

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  • Choose the right time and place
  • Temper complaints with praise
  • Avoid “Why” questions
  • Express negative emotions appropriately
  • One complaint per discussion
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Receiving Complaints

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  • Acknowledge a complaint and find something to agree with
  • Ask clarifying questions
  • Express your feelings
  • Focus on future changes you can make
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Three-Step Approach To Saying No

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  1. Express appreciation for the invitation
  2. Say no in a clear fashion
  3. Offer an alternative if able to
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Nonverbal Sexual Communication

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  • Facial expressions
  • Interpersonal distance
  • Touching
  • Sounds
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Gottman’s Constructive Communications Tactice

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  • Leveling and Editing
  • Validating
  • Volatile Dialogue
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Gottman’s Destructive Communication Tactics

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  • Criticism
  • Contempt
  • Defensiveness
  • Stonewalling
  • Belligerence
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Three Chemicals Effect Perception of Love

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  • Endorphine
  • Hormones
  • Neurotransmitters

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