INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS CHAPTER 4 - Love and Intimacy

Question 1

Before Rubin, how did researchers think love should be measured, and why was it not successful?

Answer 1

Thought to measure it as an emotion; they measured by hooking people up to electrodes

Question 2

What approach did Rubin take to measuring love?

Answer 2

He decided to measure love as an attitude.

Question 3

Social Psychologists think of attitudes as having which three components?
(C. A. B)

Answer 3

Cognitive – beliefs about the attitude, object, or person
Affective – feelings toward the attitude, object, or person
Behavioral – dispositions to act toward the object or person in certain ways

Question 4

How did Rubin demonstrate the validity of his love scale?

Answer 4

Recruited dating couples to participate in a study of eye gazing

Question 5

What two types of love did Berscheid and Walster distinguish?
(PL & CL)

Answer 5

Passionate love and companionate love.

Question 6

What are the three components of love according to Sternberg?
(I. P. C)

Answer 6

Intimacy, passion, and commitment

Question 7

What are the four components of love in the Intimate Relationships Across Cultures book?
(C. A. I. P)

Answer 7

Caring, Attachment, Intimacy, Passion