Chapter 5 - Love and Mate Selection Flashcards
What is the Five-Dimensional View of Love? What are each of the dimensions of love? Bonus: What is Narcissistic Love?
Views love as a multidimensional concept which includes:
- Romantic love: profoundly tender or passionate affection for another person
- Dependent Love: needs are fulfilled by another person
- Erotic Love: sensual, sexual attraction to each other, biological
- Altruistic Love: nurturing, unselfish concern for another
- Friendship Love: Good companions, love between people with common concerns
- Narcissistic Love: self-centered love.
What are the Types of Love? (another list of five)
- Romantic: tender and passionate affection for another person, characterized by intense feelings and emotion (e.g., smille, brushing of ones hand). They have a strong desire to be together and when apart, they become obsessed with thoughts of each other
- Narcissistic: person who manifests the characteristics of their ego ideal, and project these characteristics onto the other person. It’s the love of selfish, self-centered love; conscious – rational, reasoning love.
- Companionate: a love characterized by closeness, warmth, affection, and commitment
- Erotic: sensual love. defined as sexual attraction to another person
- Conscious love: rational love, understanding who the other person really is. you don’t relate to their image, but to their reality.
What is Limerence?
Limerence is a term used by Tennov to describe intense, wildly emotional highs and lows of being in love.
What are the two neurotransmitters you should know? What do they do?
- Dopamine: a neurotransmitter that functions in parts of the brain that control emotions and bodily movement
- Norepinephrine: a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands that has a stimulating effect on the blood pressure and acts as a neurotransmitter
What did the Walster and Walster research find regarding companionate love?
- Define companionate love as a low-key emotion with feelings of affection and deep attachment
- The result of which produces narcotic like substances in the brain called endorphins, which gives a sense of tranquility.
The more positive excitement a relationship generates, the more likely the participants are to report that they are in love. However, since intense emotional arousal and excitement can not be sustained, love that is to endure in a marriage must include components other than emotional excitement…What is it?
- This type of love (or component) that will endure is companionate love, a love that is characterized by closeness, warmth, affection, and commitment.
- When the relationship continues beyond the attraction, being around a loved one stimulates the production of endorphins–natural painkillers that resulrt in a sense of security.
What are the identities of Love and Sex According to Freud?
- Love and sex are the same thing to Freud
- Freud defines love as a yearning for a “love object” with the aim to meet one’s own sexual needs.
- These sexual aims have two elements
- Physical and sensual
- Psychical or affectionate
- Freud believed love was narcissistic
What effect does cohabitation have on marriage?
- No evidence that cohabitation weeds out incompatible couples and prepares people for a successful marriage.
- The divorce rate among those who cohabited before getting married is higher than among those who have not.
- 2002 study found that cohabitation before marriage was associated with more negative and less positive problem-solving support and behavior during the marriage.
In regards to relationships, what does it mean to select an individual with a homogamous or heterogamous personality? What do people tend to do more in regards to this?
- Homogamy is choosing someone who is similar to oneself
- Heterogamny is choosing someone who is different from oneself.
- People tend to choose mates who are homogamous (similar) in personal and social characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, education, SES, and religion.
What is the PREPARE Inventory? How successfully does it predict?
- Premarital inventory designed to identify relationship strengths and weaknesses in 11 relationship areas.
- Within 80-85% of cases, the inventory can predict whether or not couples will be happily married or end up divorced.
Define Consanguinity. What do states forbid in regards to this concept?
- Consanguinity is blood relationship or decent from a common ancestor.
- Half of states forbit marriage of first cousins
Still need to do
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Theories of Mate Selection
- Seperation of Love and Sex: Casual Sex
