HDFS302-Unit 2 Flashcards
Love
A strong affection for one another arising out of kinship or personal ties; attraction based on sexual desire; and affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests
Attachment Theory
A theory postulating that the way in which infants form attachments early in life will affect relationships throughout later life.
Secure Attachment
An attachment type where infants feel safe when their mothers are out of sight
Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment
An attachment type where infants become nervous when their parent leaves the room and can show rejection when the parent returns.
Avoidant Attachment
An attachment type where infants show little attachment to their primary parent
Courtly Love
A poetic style of the Middle Ages when poets or troubadours would write songs of unrequited love and present them at the court of their aristocratic/royal masters
Feminization of Love
The process beginning in the 19th century in which love became associated with the private work of women in the home, namely, nurturing and caring for family members.
Romantic Love
A type of love that is characterized by passion, melodrama, and excitement, and which receives a lot of media attention.
Companionate Love
A type of love that grows over time, based on strong commitment, friendship, and trust.
Sociobiology
An evolutionary theory that all humans have an instinctive impulse to pass on their genetic material.
Biochemical Perspective of Love
Theories that suggest humans are attracted to certain types of people, at which point the brain releases natural chemicals that give us a rush we experience as sexual attraction.
Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
A theory that sees love as having three elements: intimacy, passion, and commitment
Nonlove
Relationships with little to no love, there is little to no intimacy, passion, or commitment.
Empty Love
Sometimes people remain together solely because of a commitment–perhaps they stay together “for the sake of the kids” or because they are also business partners and ending the relationship would be too complicated. These relationships are void of passion and intimacy.
Liking
These relationships are intimate, such as good friendships, but typically there is no passion or commitment.
Infatuated Love
We see these types of relationships on television or among movie stars–the relationship is full of passion, but when that passion ends, little intimacy or commitment remains.
Companionate Love
These relationships characterize long-term couples; the passion may have waned, but the couples share intimacy and a commitment to one another.
Fatuous Love
Passion and commitment are the elements of this type of love; people may marry (or cohabit) very early on, but without developing real intimacy.
Romantic Love
These relationships are intense, and full of passion and intimacy. However, they typically lack a degree of commitment. The focus is on physical and sexual attraction.
Consummate Love
When the relationship contains all three components, Sternberg calls this “consummate love”–it is all that love can be.
Lee’s Styles of Love
A categorization of six types of love that describe how couples are attracted to one another.
Eros
Passionate, strong physical attraction
Storge
Companionate, mutual love, respect, trust
Pragma
Practical, sensible
Ludus
Playful, carefree, casual
Agape
Altruistic, kind, patient
Mania
Obsessive, possessive, intense
Reiss’s Wheel Theory of Love
A developmental theory that shows relationships moving from the establishment of rapport, to self-revelation, mutual dependence, and finally, need fulfillment.
Controlling the Development of Love
A macro-level perspective on love suggesting that all societies control or channel love.
Dowry
A financial gift given to a woman’s prospective in-laws by her parents.
Unrequited Love
When one person’s feelings are not reciprocated by the other person in the relationship.
Stalking
Conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to be fearful
Cyberstalking (or electronic monitoring):
Stalking contact using electronic technology.
Masturbation
Sexually stimulating one’s own body
Menarche
A woman’s first menstrual period.
Intersexed
Those born with genitalia that do not clearly identify them as unambiguously male or female
Transgender
When a person feels as comfortable, if not more so, in expressing gendered traits that are associated with the other sex.
Transsexual
An individual who undergoes sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatments.
Sexual Orientation
The sexual and romantic patterns of partners of choice.