Theories
Love
Stages of Relationships
Relationship Types
Key Words
100
A theory that describes relationships as interactions governed by a series of rules that the members agree to follow. When the rules are followed the relationship is maintained; when they are broken, the relationship experiences difficulty.
What is Rules Theory?
100
This is an obsessive love that needs to give and receive constant attention and affection. Reactions such as depression, jealousy, and self-doubt can lead to extreme lows if not receiving constant attention and affection.
What is Manic Love?
100
This is the first stage of a relationship, in which perceptual and interactional contact occurs.
What is Contact?
100
A group of people who consider themselves related and connected to one another.
What is Family?
100
This has to do with the number of topics you and your partner talk about
What is Breadth?
200
A theory claiming that you experience relationship satisfaction when there is an equal distribution of rewards and costs between the two persons in the relationship
What is Equity Theory?
200
This is a peaceful and tranquil love.
What is Storage Love?
200
This is the third stage of a relationship, when you commit yourself still further to the other person and establish a relationship in which this individual becomes your best of closest friend, lover, or companion.
What is Intimacy?
200
A relationship between two people that the partners see as their most important relationship.
What is A Primary Relationship?
200
Seeks entertainment and excitement and see love as fun, a game.
What is Ludic Love?
300
A theory holding that we form relationships on the basis of our attraction for another person.
What is Attraction Theory?
300
This love seeks beauty and sensuality and focuses on physical attractiveness.
What is Eros Love?
300
This is the second stage of a relationship, in which the individuals get to know each other better and explore the potential for greater intimacy.
What is Involvement?
300
A relationship between two persons that is mutually productive, established and maintained through perceived mutual free choice, and characterized by mutual positive regard.
What is Friendship?
300
Attempts to reverse the process of relationship deterioration.
What is Repair?
400
A theory hypothesizing that people develop relationships in which their rewards, or profits, will be greater than their costs and that people avoid terminate relationships in which the costs exceed the rewards
What is Social Exchange Theory?
400
This love is practical and traditional and seeks compatibility and a relationship in which important needs and desires will be satisfied.
What is Pragma Love?
400
This is the stage after Intimacy that either ends up with Repair or Dissolution.
What is Deterioration?
400
Three types of Primary Relationships.
What are Traditionals, Independents, and Separates?
400
The breaking of the bonds holding a relationship together
What is Dissolution?
500
This theory is not of why relationships develop but of what happens with they do develop; it describes relationships in terms of the number of topics that people talk about and their degree of "personalness".
What is Social Penetration Theory?
500
This love is compassionate and selfless; a love that is offered without concern for personal reward or gain and without any expectation that the love will be reciprocated.
What is Agapic Love?
500
The contact and involvement stages make up this.
What is Relationship Development?
500
Three major types of Friendship.
What is Friendship of reciprocity, Receptivity, and Association?
500
Small gestures people enjoy receiving.
What is Cherishing Behaviors?
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