Test 2 Flashcards
What is sex?
Refers to biological characteristics with which we are born
Gender
refers to learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize poeple of one sex or the other
Love in Friendship
enjoyment acceptance trust respect mutual support confiding understanding honesty
sexual desire
psychological state that wants to obtain a sexual object that does not now have or to engage in sexual acitivity that one does not have
Romantic love
intense feeling that can provide ecstasy when fulfilled or deep suffering when the feeling isn’t reciprocated
Info about Reiss’s Wheel Theory of Love
4 stages: like spikes on wheel can turn around and round and repeat
- Rapport
- Self-Revelation
- Mutual Dependency
- Personality Need Fulfillment
Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love:
Intimacy
Passion
Decision/Commitment
Lee’s Style of Loving:
Eros Mania Ludus Storge Agape Pragma
Eros
Love of beauty
power physical attraction
Mania
obsessive love
jealousy, possessiveness, intense dependency
Ludus
playful love
carefree quality, casualness, fun and games
Storge
Companioate love
peaceful and affectionate love based on mutual trust and respect
Agape
altruistic love
self-sacrificing, kind and patient
Pragma
practical love
sensible, realistic
Controlling Behavior
jealousy stalking manipulative guilty trips emotional/physical abuse perverse reasoning