Chapter 12: Attraction, Relationships, and Love

Question 1

exchange relationship

Answer 1

relationship in which people offer rewards in order to receive benefits in return

Question 2

close relationship

Answer 2

relationship involving strong and frequent interdependence in many domains of life

Question 3

love

Answer 3

thoughts, feelings, and actions that occur when a person wishes to enter/ maintain a close relationship with a specific person

Question 4

communal relationship

Answer 4

relationship in which people reward their partner out of direct concern and to show caring

Question 5

intimacy

Answer 5

positive emotional bond that includes understanding and support

Question 6

social support

Answer 6

emotional support and physical coping resources provided by other people

Question 7

commitment

Answer 7

combined forces that hold the partners together in an enduring relationship

Question 8

attachment styles

Answer 8

people’s basic securely attached, avoidant, or anxious orientation toward others in close relationships

Question 9

romantic love

Answer 9

involves sexual feelings, a sense of intense longing for the partner, euphoric feelings of fulfilment and ecstasy when the relationship goes well, and anxiety and despair when it does not

Question 10

accommodation

Answer 10

processes of responding to a negative action by the partner