Psychology 2075 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Facial Symmetry, Physical Attractiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Passionate love is a complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion. Companionate love is warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one"s own. Companionate love is subdivided into intimacy and commitment. Intimacy refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship. Commitment is an intent to maintain a relationship in spit of the difficulties and costs that may arise. Passion reaches its zenith in the early phases of love and then erodes. Intimacy and commitment increase with time, although at different rates. Romantic love is an attachment process, and people"s intimate relationships in adulthood follow the same form as their attachments in infancy. Adults love relationships could be sorted into groups that paralleled the three patterns of attachment seen in infants. Subjects recollections of their childhood relations with their parents were consistent with the idea that people relive their infant attachment experiences in adulthood.