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Ch. 8 Love and Loving Relationships
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Undergraduate 1
10/27/2014

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Attatchment Theory
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a theory postulating that the way in which infants form attatchments early in life affects relationships throughout later life.
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secure attatchement
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an attatchment type where infants feel safe when their mothers are out of sight.
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anxious-ambivalent attatchment
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an attatchment type where infants become nervous when their parent leaves the room and can show rejection when the parent returns.
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avoidant attatchment
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an attatchment type where infants show little attatchment to their primary parent.
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romantic love
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a type of love characterized by passion, melodrama, and excitement, and that recieves a lot of media attention.
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compassionate love
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a type of love that grows over time, based on strong commitment, friendship, and trust.
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sociobiology
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an evolutionary theory that all humans have an instinctive impulse to pass on their genetic material.
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biochemical perspective of love
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theories that suggest humans are attracted to certain types of people, at which point the brain releasess natural chemicals that gives us a "rush" we experience as sexual attraction.
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Sternberg's triangular theory of love
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a theory that sees love as having three elements: intimacy, passion, and commitment
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nonlove
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relationships have no love in them
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empty love
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people remain together soley because of a commitment. (children)
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liking
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relationships are intimate, such as good friendships, but typically no passion or commitment.
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infatuated love
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relationship full of passion, but when passion ends, little intimacy or commitment remains.
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companionate love
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long-term couples; passion may have waned, but couples share intimacy and commitment to one another.
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fatuous love
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people marry or cohabit very early on without developing real intimacy.
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romantic love
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relationships intence and full of passion and intimacy. lack a degree of commitment, and focus is on physical and sexual attraction.
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consumate love
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when the relationship contains all three componants (perfect love)
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lee's styles of love
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a categorization of 6 types of love that describe how couples  are attracted to one another.
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Eros
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love that is passionate, all-consuming, and highly sexual
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storge
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love that develops slowly with the passage of time. (start as friends and slowly turn into more)
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Pragma
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rational, down-to-earth style of love based on practical considerations. very pickey with partner (may have checklist of traits) compatibility is key.
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Ludus
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playful, carefree type of love. (open relationship) no jealousy and sex is for fun rather than intimacy
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Agape
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self-sacrificing, altruistic, kind and patient. partners give without expecting to recieve anything in return.
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mania
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characterized by possesiveness, dependency, and jealousy.  heavy need for each other and obsess over one another.
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Reiss's wheel theory of love
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a developmental theory that shows relationships moving from the establishment of rapport, to self-revelation, mutual dependence, and finally, need fulfillment.
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controlling the development of love
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a macro-level perspective on love suggesting that all societies control or channel love.
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unrequited love
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when one person's feelings are not reciprocated by the other person in the relationship.
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