Lecture Material for 3rd Section Quizzes

Question 1

5 Love Language Theories

Answer 1

• Done by Chapman
• Zero research done
• Aggressive Marketing
• Homophobic

Question 2

Cancian Expressive Vs Instrumental Love

Answer 2

• Women typically show love the expressive way, men typically show love intrumentally
• instrumental love is doing something for someone and often includes sex

Question 3

Sternberg Triangular Love Theory

Answer 3

• Contains passion, intimacy, and commitment
• All three is consummate love

Question 4

Hypothalmus Parts on Hunger

Answer 4

Lateral Region
* brings on hunger w orexin hormone
* if destroyed animals eat just enough to stay alive
* involved w blood sugar
Ventromedial
* depresses hunger w ghrelin (assoc. w satiation, also found in the hippocampus)
* if destroyed an animal will keep eating and eating

Question 5

Body Chemistry (Hormones) and Hunger

Answer 5

• Ghrelin is produced by stomach lining cells (and found in ventromedial hypothalamus and hippocampus), lower in obese pll, increases during meals and decreases after meals
• Leptin in fat cels, decreases reward aspect of food
• Orexin hunger triggering hormone in lateral region of hypothalamus
• PYY temporarily suppresses appetite

Question 6

Set Point Hypothesis

Answer 6

• says that we have a weight we gravitate towards naturally either due to biology or childhood eating habits
• breastfed babies self regulate food intake more, have lower obesity and lower cholesterol
• # of fat cells may also impact weight as people always keep the most amount of fat cells that they have ever had, they just shrink if people lose weight… fat cells may impact metabolic rate

Question 7

Obesity

Answer 7

• taste preferences exist due to cultures/subcultures
• food deserts
• study: Fiji Adolescent Girls Study studied drive for thinness increase after introduction of TV to a normally heavier-weight centered culture
• heredibility: .74 in identical twins, .32 in fraternal twins, FTO gene linked to increase risk for obesiry

Question 8

Styles of Love (John Alan Lee)

Answer 8

• Ludus (game-play): seeks hookups as a conquest/game, low psychological intimacy, not intense
• Eros (romantic): passionate, intimate, physical, intense
• Storge (friends to lovers): may be more companionate and then become physical, shared values, seen in rom-coms
• Mania: troubled, intense, jealous, codependent, problematic, no trust, unhealthy
• Pragma (practical): logical, active search for a partner with certain characteristics
• Agape (altruistic): giving without asking for a return, sacrifice, purest form (to some)

Question 9

Attachment Theory of Love

Answer 9

• secure
• avoidant- lack of commitment, not intimate, not trustful
• anxious-ambivalent- clingy, trust issues, narcissitic, self-centered
• disorganized- avoid relationships/incapable

says problematic attachment leads to problematic later, same w secure