Chapter 8

Question 1

Need to belong

Answer 1

The human need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships

Question 2

Sociosexual orientation

Answer 2

Individual differences in the tendency to prefer either unrestricted sex (without the necessity of love or restricted sex (only in the context of along-term, loving relationship)

Question 3

Equity rule

Answer 3

Each person’s benefits and costs in a social relationship should be matched to the benefits and costs of the other

Question 4

Polygamy

Answer 4

Marital custom in which either one man marries more than one woman (polygyny) or one woman marries more than one man (polyandry)

Question 5

Need-based rule

Answer 5

Each person in a social relationship provides benefits as the other needs them, without keeping account of individual costs and benefits

Question 6

Nurturant love

Answer 6

Feelings of tenderness and concern, central to parents caring for their children

Question 7

Androgynous

Answer 7

Demonstrating a combination of masculine and feminine characteristics in one’s behaviors

Question 8

Two-factor theory

Answer 8

The theory that love consists of general arousal (factor 1), which is attributed to the presence of an attractive person and labeled as love (factor 2)

Question 9

Factor analysis

Answer 9

A statistical technique for sorting test items or behaviors into conceptually similar groups

Question 10

Avoidant attachment style

Answer 10

Attachments marked by defensive detachment from the other

Question 11

Passionate love

Answer 11

A state of intense longing for union with another

Question 12

Intimacy

Answer 12

Factor on love scales composed of items tapping feelings of close bonding with another

Question 13

Polyandry

Answer 13

Marital arrangement involving one woman and more than one husband

Question 14

Anxious/ambivalent attachment style

Answer 14

Attachments marked by fear of abandonment and the feeling that one’s needs are not being met

Question 15

Polygyny

Answer 15

Marital arrangement involving one man and more than one wife

Question 16

Erotomania

Answer 16

A disorder involving the fixed (but incorrect) belief that one is loved by another, which persists in the face of strong evidence to the contrary

Question 17

Secure base

Answer 17

Comfort provided by an attachment figure, which allows the person to venture forth more confidently to explore the environment

Question 18

Companionate love

Answer 18

Affection and tenderness felt for those whose lives are entwined with our own

Question 19

Attachment love

Answer 19

Desire to be cared for, and protected by, another person

Question 20

Decision/commitment

Answer 20

Factor on love scales composed of items tapping decision that one is in love with and committed to another

Question 21

Secure attachment style

Answer 21

Attachments marked by trust that the other person will continue to provide love and support

Question 22

Monogamy

Answer 22

Marital custom involving two people, most typically one man married to one woman

Question 23

Passion

Answer 23

Factor on love scales composed of items tapping romantic attraction and sexual desire