Exam 2, Part 2 Flashcards
What are the key components for defining Play?
- Adaptive, facilitates flexibility in relationship
- Resource for constructing meaning in personal relationships
- Lighthearted, intentional, goal-driven
- Verbal and nonverbal
What type of Play is Private Verbal Code?
They’re Relational idioms:
- Nicknames for partner/others
- Confrontations (nicknaming the repeating confrontation)
- Sexual invitations
- Sexual references
What type of Play is Role-Playing?
Either or both partners assume identity of someone else.
What type of Play is Verbal Teasing?
- Can be one or two-sided teasing
- Target is partner or the relationship
What type of Play is Prosocial Physical Play?
- Nonverbal in nature
- Transforms conventionally prosocial act into playful activity.
(ex: exaggerated waltzing; playing broom guitar while cleaning)
What type of Play is Antisocial Physical Play?
Transforms conventionally antisocial behavior into a playful activity.
(wrestling, mock fighting)
What type of Play is Gossiping?
Talking about other people who are not present.
What type of Play is Games?
- Game-like play involving explicit rules and the designation of a winner
- Can be centered around sexual activity.
What type of Play is Public Performances?
- Enacting some behavior in front of an audience from whom a reaction is desired.
- Observing reaction is playful for partners
What is correlated in Relational Play (with both friends & romantics)?
Closeness.
What does Private Verbal Code indicate?
Intimacy.
True or false: All forms of play can be considered low-risk.
FALSE - Not all forms are considered low-risk.
What does Lay say about love through the Personal Construal of Love?
- People don’t define love very well.
- They compare the experience of love to some prototypical example (something modeled from)
How does Love differ from Joy?
Love is directed at a person.
A feeling that is focused on a love object characterized by the desire to…. what?
- Be near to
- Touch
- Kiss (and stuff)
People’s prototypical types of love tend to reflect on what?
It tends to reflect on maternal and friendship love and NOT romantic or sexual love.
What is the scientific definition of love, according to Aron & Aron?
A constellation of behaviors, cognitions, and emotions associated with a desire to enter and maintain a close relationship with a specific other person.
What is Compassionate Love, according to Bercheid & Hatfield?
Affection we feel for those with whom are lives are deeply intertwined.
What is Passionate Love, according to Bercheid & Hatfield?
A state of intense longing for a union with another.