HDF 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tegmentum, Vasopressin, Habituation

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23 May 2018

School

UT-Austin

Department

Human Development and Family Sciences

Course

HDF 313

Professor

H Speranza

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9/22/15 (Love and Commitment)

● Triangulating love (sternberg 1986):

○ Love consists of 3 things:

■ intimacy: on its own is liking (similar to liking a friend)

■ passion: on its own is infatuation (sexual component, or passion for your

kids)

■ commitment: on its own is empty love

● passion and intimacy= romantic love

● intimacy and commitment = companionate love

● passion and commitment = fatuous love

● ALL 3 = CONSUMMATE LOVE

● If you don’t have any of these 3 things, it’s NOT LOVE

● Passionate Love vs. Companionate Love:

○ Passionate: I’m in love with you

■ “A state of intense longing for union with another” - Hatfield and Rapson

■ intense romantic love

■ Want to be with them physically and emotionally

■ Passionate love has cognitive, emotional and behavioral characteristics

■ also: characterized by physiological arousal

■ belief the other is the cause of that arousal

● Cognitive characteristics

○ Intense focused attention

○ obsessive thinking

● Emotional (Affective)

○ euphoria: a feeling of intense happiness

○ emotional dependency

○ increased energy

● Behavioral Characteristics

○ seeking proximity

○ sexual bidding

■ Universal: in all societies we have a word to describe it, suggests that it

evolved to courage mating

■ Physiology of passionate love:

● “symptoms of passionate love resemble those of addiction

● Is it possible they activate the same regions of the brain?

● Ventral tegmental area (VTA) brain reacts to loved one, same as

reacting to drugs or chocolate

■ Suggests that passionate love may have evolved to promote partner

choice, which helps to conserve time and energy associated with

courtship

■ passionate love evolved so we could focus on one partner

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Commitment: on its own is empty love kids) If you don"t have any of these 3 things, it"s not love. A state of intense longing for union with another - hatfield and rapson. Want to be with them physically and emotionally. Passionate love has cognitive, emotional and behavioral characteristics. Physiology of passionate love: evolved to courage mating. Symptoms of passionate love resemble those of addiction. Ventral tegmental area (vta) brain reacts to loved one, same as reacting to drugs or chocolate. Suggests that passionate love may have evolved to promote partner choice, which helps to conserve time and energy associated with courtship. Companionate: i love you, but i"m not in love with you over time (become desensitized) aspects of that life. We habituate, we start to feel less passionate about the same person. Some couples are able to maintain feelings of passionate love for decades.

HDF 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tegmentum, Vasopressin, Habituation

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