Question: What is passionate love?

Answer: Involves a complete absorption in another that includes sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion.

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Question: What is companionate love?

Answer: Is warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own.

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Question: According to Sternberg, companionate love can be subdivided into what?

Answer: 1. Intimacy 2. Commitment

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Question: What is intimacy?

Answer: Refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship.

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Question: What is commitment?

Answer: An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise.

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Question: How does passion change with time?

Answer: Passion reaches its peak in the early phases of love and then decreases over time.

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Question: How does intimacy change with time?

Answer: Intimacy increases with time.

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Question: How does commitment change with time?

Answer: Commitment increases with time.

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Question: Describe liking.

Answer: Involves the experience of only intimacy. In these types of relationships, we feel close to other people, but we don't experience passionate feelings for them or make long-term commitments to them.

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Question: Describe romantic love.

Answer: Involves the combination of intimacy and passion. This means that two people feel strongly drawn to each other, but there is no long-term commitment to maintain the relationship.

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Question: Describe infatuation.

Answer: Is made up of passion alone. According to Sternberg, this is often one-sided, and the partner is loved only as an idealized object.

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Question: Describe fatuous love.

Answer: A combination of passion and commitment, is the type of love that often occurs in whirlwind courtships. These relationships are likely to break up when the passion fades, because there is little intimacy to sustain them.

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Question: Describe empty love.

Answer: Refers to a relationship in which only commitment is currently present. In out culture, this type of love is most commonly found in the last stages of some long-term relationships.

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Question: Describe companionate love.

Answer: Involves the combination of intimacy and commitment. This type of love is seen in marriages in which passion has faded but intimacy and commitment remain strong.

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Question: Describe consummate love.

Answer: Result when all three components of love - intimacy, passion, and commitment - are present.

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Question: What did John Alan Lee argue?

Answer: That people are characterized by different styles of loving.

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Question: Describe LUDUS.

Answer: Game playing love. People who exhibit this style enjoy the search for many sexual conquests with little long term involvement.

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Question: Describe MANIA.

Answer: Possessive love. People who exhibit this style are obsessive, passionate lovers who are prone to jealousy and need lots of attention.

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Question: Describe PRAGMA.

Answer: Pragmatic love. People who exhibit this style are practical and rational about love, looking for compatibility in interest, values, and attitudes.

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Question: Describe EROS.

Answer: Love of beauty. People who exhibit this style equate love with strong physical attraction and select partners based on their looks rather than on their intelligence or personality.

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Question: Describe AGAPE.

Answer: Altruistic love. People who exhibit this style are unselfish, undemanding, and very giving in intimate relationships.

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Question: Describe STORGE.

Answer: Slow-burning love. People who exhibit this style fall in love very gradually and prefer stable, calm relationships.

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Question: What is an attachment?

Answer: A close, emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers.

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Question: Describe secure adults. What percentage of people studies we secure adults?

Answer: 56% of Hazan and Shaver's subjects. These adults find it relatively easy to get close to others, describe their love relations as trusting, rarely worry about being abandoned, and report the fewest divorces.

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Question: Describe avoidant adults. What percentage of people studies were avoidant adults?

Answer: 24% of Hazan and Shaver's subjects. These adults find it difficult to get close to others and describe their love as lacking intimacy and trust.

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Question: Describe anxious-ambivalent adults. What percentage of people studies were anxious-ambivalent adults?

Answer: 20% of Hazan and Shaver's subjects. These adults report a preoccupation with love accompanied by expectations of rejection and describe their love relations as volatile and marked by jealousy.

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