Compare and contrast passionate and companionate love

What will be an ideal response?


Both passionate love and companionate love involve feelings of deep concern for and
intimacy with another individual. However, passionate love is characterized by intense
emotional experiences, typically occurs early in a relationship, and is unencumbered by
costs to a relationship. Companionate love, on the other hand, entails deep commitment
and trust and exists between friends as well as lovers.

Psychology

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A) After initial brain injury from anoxia, another phase of cell death can occur several weeks later. B) Whole-body cooling involves immersing an anoxic newborn in freezing water. C) The effects of mild or even moderate anoxia rarely persist beyond infancy. D) When development is severely impaired, the anoxia was probably extreme.

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Many of the causes that contribute to the Flynn effect will likely __________ in developing countries.

A. become more prevalent B. become less prevalent C. cease to have an impact D. disappear

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Your professor poses a question to your class about information in your assigned reading

Although you think you might know the answer, you don't raise your hand to answer because you're afraid that if you're wrong, the other students might laugh at you. You are experiencing which barrier to problem-solving? a. cultural b. learned c. perceptual d. emotional

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You're eating dinner at a table with several other students and talking about movies. One guy to

your left asks everyone which Rocky movie they thought was the best. Another student with a thick foreign accent remarks how she had not seen any of these movies so she really did not know. The guy then exclaims, "You haven't seen Rocky? Where have you been? Everyone knows Rocky!" Besides being a little too excited about boxing movies, his views could be described as A) ethnocentric B) a cultural response set C) egocentric D) I don't know, but the guy needs to get a life, I mean they are only movies, and I actually prefer movies with talking animals.

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