Deck 6: Love

Question 1

The ability to be truly vulnerable and open with another person is referred to as ______.

A) familiarity
B) intimacy
C) closeness
D) affection

Answer 1

intimacy

Question 2

Love is best defined as ______.

A) an overwhelming desire to be near another person
B) a subjective feeling of emotional connection with another person
C) a sense of relying on another person to fulfill one's emotional needs
D) a feeling of affiliation, respect, and friendship

Answer 2

a subjective feeling of emotional connection with another person

Question 3

The three elements of Sternberg's triangular theory of love are ______.

A) friendship, passion, and intimacy
B) passion, intimacy, and commitment
C) ludus, eros, and agape
D) infatuation, romantic love, and commitment

Answer 3

passion, intimacy, and commitment

Question 4

Which characteristic is NOT associated with consummate love?

A) a high level of intimacy
B) a low level of passion
C) a strong level of commitment
D) a strong physical attraction

Question 5

Sam and Linda have been married for 10 years. Both partners feel strong commitment to each other but no longer experience intimacy or physical passion. Their relationship is best described as ______.

A) infatuation
B) companionate love
C) consummate love
D) empty love

Question 6

According to Sternberg's view, which statement reflects a fantasy love story?

A) You know that I'll always take care of you.
B) I'm glad to be traveling through life with you.
C) You must take better care of yourself.
D) It's your turn to pick up the kids this week.

Question 7

Which of Lee's love styles involves making a rational choice of a mate?

A) ludus
B) eros
C) storge
D) pragma

Question 8

Which of Lee's love styles is closest to Sternberg's consummate love?

A) storge
B) agape
C) ludus
D) eros

Question 9

Which statement about feminized love is correct?

A) It implies a tolerance for female homosexuality.
B) It encourages exploration of female sexuality.
C) It refers to an ideal vision of consummate love between spouses.
D) It implies that women are responsible for emotional support.

Question 10

In traditional societies, marriage is thought of as a(n)______.

A) means of emotional support for marriage partners
B) economic or political alliance between families
C) way of giving women more power than they had on their own
D) avenue of self-expression

Question 11

Which statement best defines androgynous love?

A) Partners are not bound by traditional ideas about sexuality.
B) Both partners take on each other's gender roles.
C) Both partners express love, sex, and intimacy.
D) Partners are free to experiment outside the relationship.

Question 12

The limbic system is a part of the brain responsible for ______.

A) basic survival functions
B) emotional response
C) higher-level reasoning
D) balance and movement

Question 13

The neocortex is a part of the brain responsible for ______.

A) basic survival functions
B) emotional response
C) higher level reasoning
D) balance and movement

Question 14

Which hormonal changes occur during kissing sessions?

A) decrease in vasopressin levels and increase in testosterone levels
B) increase in vasopressin levels and decrease in testosterone levels
C) decrease in oxytocin levels and increase in stress hormone levels
D) increase in oxytocin levels and decrease in stress hormone levels

Question 15

When two people's bodily rhythms become synchronized, they are experiencing ______.

A) limbic coregulation
B) limbic syncrisity
C) limbic co-efficacy
D) limbic stratification

Question 16

The frequency with which a person perceives threat in a relationship is referred to as ______.

A) affective responsiveness
B) affective reactivity
C) affective reflection
D) affective regulation

Question 17

Which statement expresses an emotional assessment of ritualized love?

A) What are you doing on Saturday night?
B) We'll take that cozy table in the corner.
C) Is that a new outfit?
D) I've never known anyone like you before.

Question 18

Which family configuration exists when a couple is committed to each other but each partner may have additional liaisons that do not interfere with the primary relationship?

A) open model
B) polygamy
C) primary/secondary structure
D) multiple primary partners

Question 19

The goal of emotion-focused couples therapy is to ______.

A) increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones
B) increase the emotional level of an intimate relationship
C) identify each partner's history of dysfunctional relationships
D) help couples enhance the value of their disagreements

Question 20

The brain stem is sometimes called the reptilian brain, due to its location in the lower or more primitive parts of the brain that control our survival functions.

Question 21

When a person self-mutilates, oxytocin, naturally occurring pain-relieving neurochemicals, is released in the brain and dull the greater emotional pain people are experiencing in their lives.

Question 22

The third, most sophisticated, and most recently evolved portion of the brain is the cerebral cortex.

Question 23

People who are depressed tend to have lower levels of serotonin and people who are very happy have higher levels.

Question 24

People with an insecure/anxious/preoccupied attachment style have sometimes experienced abandonment or trauma from their caregivers and then often enter adult love relationships with intense fears of betrayal and abandonment.

Question 25

People with dismissing/avoidant styles pursue intimacy at all costs.

Question 26

Fearful/avoidant people feel such anxiety over intimacy that they choose to disengage in order to avoid the potential pain of getting too involved with others.

Question 27

People who have high affective reactivity will frequently become ambivalent in their romantic attachments, their affective threat systems will often be sedated, and they have no need to expend much energy on regulating their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Question 28

The temporal assessment of ritualized love relates to isolated time increments.

Question 29

In the emotional assessment of romantic rituals, we see romantic feelings as integrated with other feelings.

Question 30

One of the most effective forms of couples' therapy is called emotion-focused couples therapy, in which the couple works to identify negative cycles and the threats they feel undermine their emotional security.

Question 31

Emotion-focused couples therapy (EFCT) focuses on each partner providing a sense of sympathy for where the other person came from emotionally, with both their parents and previous partners.

Question 32

Attachment theory posits that we develop internal working models that reflect our views of ourselves, our views of other people, and our views of relationships in general.

Question 33

Securely attached people tend to have constructive conflicts with their mates.

Question 34

Erik Erikson argued that the key developmental task one needs to accomplish in early adulthood is the skill of emotional security with others.

Question 35

Companionate love is one of affiliation, deep respect, and a "best friendship."

Question 36

Lee's (1973) research uncovered ______ different styles of love, each with more or less focus on commitment and relationship health.

Question 37

Like Sternberg's companionate love, Lee's idea of storge (pronounced stor-gee) love involves maintaining a healthy ______ relationship with someone who is your best friend.

Question 38

Agape love, which is similar to Sternberg's ______, in that the couple is completely devoted to each other.

Question 39

In ______, partners fill the gaps and balance out their partner's traits. The sheer act of loving that person makes each partner rise to become a better version of the self they once were.

Question 40

______ thought love helped honorable men remain honorable with their male counterparts and that love for a woman was beneath any honorable man.

Question 41

As the philosophies of the ______ period of the 18th century began to spread, individual pleasure and happiness became priorities in the quest for a mate.

Question 42

For the middle and upper classes in the 19th century, the Victorian ideal of ______ evolved, where women did most of the loving and men avoided emotional commitment.

Question 43

This kind of love is based on intimacy in both partners, where sex, love, and intimacy were combined in one relationship, and began to alter people's expectations.

Question 44

This polyamorous family configuration consists of a couple committed to each other and any other liaisons are considered secondary, meaning they can never interfere with or join the first relationship.

Question 45

This is the idea that the brain has three key levels or structures.

Question 46

Explain how Enlightenment ideas about personal happiness influenced marriage and divorce from the eighteenth to the 20th century in the United States.

Question 47

What is the relationship between societal wealth and ideas about personal happiness and fulfillment? How does this influence expectations about marriage?

Question 48

How do scientists determine the role of specific neurotransmitters in regulating emotion? Explain why it is difficult for scientists to attribute specific feelings to specific neurotransmitters.

Question 49

Define attachment theory and explain how it parallels Sternberg's concept of love stories.