CMS 315M FINAL VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
Love of Beauty - Answers - style of love that is passionate, intense, and rooted in a
powerful attraction to physical beauty
Playful Love - Answers - style of love in which individuals consider love a game
Companionate Love - Answers - style of love based on friendship and companionship
Obsessive Love - Answers - style of love that is possessive, consuming, and somewhat
like an addition
Realistic Love - Answers - style of love based on practicality and logic
Altruistic Love - Answers - style of love that is unselfish, patient, caring, and kind
Intimacy - Answers - feelings of closeness, sharing, communication, and support
Passion - Answers - physiological arousal and an intense desire to be united with the
loved one
Commitment - Answers - involves both the short-term decision to love another and the
longer-term commitment to maintain it
Nonlove - Answers - relational state that lacks intimacy, passion, and commitment
Infatuation - Answers - type of love with high passion but no intimacy or commitment
Empty Love - Answers - type of love that is high in commitment but low in passion and
intimacy
Romantic Love - Answers - type of love that combines passion and intimacy but lacks
commitment
Fatuous Love - Answers - type of love that combines commitment and passion but lacks
intimacy
Compassionate Love - Answers - type of love that combines intimacy and commitment,
but no passion
Consummate Love - Answers - type of love that combines all three dimensions:
passion, intimacy, and commitment
, Liking - Answers - an attraction that is a result of positive reinforcement received from
another person
Affection - Answers - liking based on mutual interacting characterized by warmth,
closeness, and fondness
Respect - Answers - liking based on another's admirable characteristics outside the
interpersonal domain
Attachment - Answers - consists of powerful desires to be in the other's presence, to
make physical contact, to be approved of, and to be cared for - to be fulfilled by the
other
Caring - Answers - the opposite of attachment, the view of love as giving rather than
needing
Intimacy - Answers - derived from the combination of attachment and caring
Cross-Sex Friendships - Answers - ostensibly non-romantic friendships between a
heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman
Responsiveness - Answers - a core characteristic of intimate relationships marked by
individuals doing things out of consideration for the other person that they would not
otherwise do
Perceived Responsiveness - Answers - the extent that people believe their relational
partner is supporting, understanding, and concerned with their needs
Secure Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern associated with being happy, friendly,
trusting, and accepting of one's partner despite known faults
Avoidant Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern in which people fear intimacy and
experience emotional extremes and jealousy
Anxious / Ambivalent Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern in which people experience
emotional extremes, obsession, jealousy, and extreme sexual attraction
Self-Fulfillment - Answers - the extent to which our needs are fulfilled by the relationship
Primitive Forms of Security - Answers - food, shelter, and friends
Psychological Security - Answers - derived from the absence of threat, the presence of
ego-supportive communication, and a healthy amount of predictability in the relationship
and the environment
Love of Beauty - Answers - style of love that is passionate, intense, and rooted in a
powerful attraction to physical beauty
Playful Love - Answers - style of love in which individuals consider love a game
Companionate Love - Answers - style of love based on friendship and companionship
Obsessive Love - Answers - style of love that is possessive, consuming, and somewhat
like an addition
Realistic Love - Answers - style of love based on practicality and logic
Altruistic Love - Answers - style of love that is unselfish, patient, caring, and kind
Intimacy - Answers - feelings of closeness, sharing, communication, and support
Passion - Answers - physiological arousal and an intense desire to be united with the
loved one
Commitment - Answers - involves both the short-term decision to love another and the
longer-term commitment to maintain it
Nonlove - Answers - relational state that lacks intimacy, passion, and commitment
Infatuation - Answers - type of love with high passion but no intimacy or commitment
Empty Love - Answers - type of love that is high in commitment but low in passion and
intimacy
Romantic Love - Answers - type of love that combines passion and intimacy but lacks
commitment
Fatuous Love - Answers - type of love that combines commitment and passion but lacks
intimacy
Compassionate Love - Answers - type of love that combines intimacy and commitment,
but no passion
Consummate Love - Answers - type of love that combines all three dimensions:
passion, intimacy, and commitment
, Liking - Answers - an attraction that is a result of positive reinforcement received from
another person
Affection - Answers - liking based on mutual interacting characterized by warmth,
closeness, and fondness
Respect - Answers - liking based on another's admirable characteristics outside the
interpersonal domain
Attachment - Answers - consists of powerful desires to be in the other's presence, to
make physical contact, to be approved of, and to be cared for - to be fulfilled by the
other
Caring - Answers - the opposite of attachment, the view of love as giving rather than
needing
Intimacy - Answers - derived from the combination of attachment and caring
Cross-Sex Friendships - Answers - ostensibly non-romantic friendships between a
heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman
Responsiveness - Answers - a core characteristic of intimate relationships marked by
individuals doing things out of consideration for the other person that they would not
otherwise do
Perceived Responsiveness - Answers - the extent that people believe their relational
partner is supporting, understanding, and concerned with their needs
Secure Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern associated with being happy, friendly,
trusting, and accepting of one's partner despite known faults
Avoidant Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern in which people fear intimacy and
experience emotional extremes and jealousy
Anxious / Ambivalent Lovers - Answers - attachment pattern in which people experience
emotional extremes, obsession, jealousy, and extreme sexual attraction
Self-Fulfillment - Answers - the extent to which our needs are fulfilled by the relationship
Primitive Forms of Security - Answers - food, shelter, and friends
Psychological Security - Answers - derived from the absence of threat, the presence of
ego-supportive communication, and a healthy amount of predictability in the relationship
and the environment
