Love, Sex and Attraction

Question 1

Sternberg’s triangular theory’s tree components

Answer 1

• Intimacy
• Passion
• Commitment

Question 2

7 types of love

Answer 2

• liking - intimacy
• companionate - intimacy + commitment
• empty love - commitment
• fatuous love - passion + commitment
• infatuation - passion
• romantic love - passion + intimacy
• consummate love - intimacy + passion + commitment

Question 3

Laws of attraction

Answer 3

• proximity (probability + mere exposure/familiarity)
• similarity
• reciprocity
• physical attractiveness

Question 4

Universal agreements of attraction

Answer 4

facial symmetry, hourglass women and triangular men

Question 5

Evolutionary perspectives for women and men

Answer 5

Women =

• costly reproduction, restricted numbers of offspring and maternal certainty
• care about personality, status, resources, choosier, want them to stick around

Men =

• easy reproduction, large numbers of offsprings possible, paternal uncertainty
• youth and attractiveness, not choosy, many partners, seek fertile people

Question 6

Coitus and copulatioln

Answer 6

Coitus = coming together, uniting
Copulation = sex

Question 7

Sex Researchers

Answer 7

Havelock hollis
Sigmund Freud
Alfred Kinsley
Masters and Johnson

Question 8

Sexual Response Cycle

Answer 8

• excitement - physical and psychological stimulation
• plateau
• orgasm - sudden discharge of sexual tension
• resolution - returns to unaroused state