intro lecture

Question 1

What do our most intense emotional experiences tend to be connected to?

Answer 1

interpersonal events

Question 2

What is the environment of evolutionary adaptedness?

Answer 2

The ancestral environment to which a species is adapted

Question 3

Who is Shanidar?

Answer 3

a homo neanderthalensis, a skeleton found to be quite crippled but still lived into their 40s because of support from others

Question 4

Baboon grooming study

Answer 4

Baboons who groom each other resulted in a longer life and better offspring survival. Grooming is a function of social bonding.

Question 5

What makes a relationship intimate?

Answer 5

More knowledge about each other
Interdependence
caring
trust
responsiveness
mutuality
commitment

Question 6

What is the triangular theory of love?

Answer 6

A triangle of intimacy, passion, and commitment

Question 7

what is passion?

Answer 7

physical arousal, desire, and excitment

Question 8

What is Intimacy?

Answer 8

feeling of closeness

Question 9

What is commitment?

Answer 9

permanence

Question 10

What are kinds of love?

Answer 10

Nonlove: low everything
Liking: intimacy is high, passion and commitment is low.
Infatuated love: passion is high, intimacy and commitment is low.
Empty Love: commitment high, intimacy and passion low
Romantic love: high intimacy and passion, low commitment
Companionate love: high intimacy and commitment, low passion
Fatuous love: high passion and commitment, low intimacy
Consummate love: high everything