Describe Sternberg's three components of love
What will be an ideal response?
The intimacy component encompasses feelings of closeness, affection, and connectedness. The passion component
comprises the motivational drives relating to sex, physical closeness, and romance, and is exemplified by the
intense, physiologically arousing feelings of attraction. The decision/commitment component embodies both the
initial cognition that one loves another person and the longer-term determination to maintain that love
relationship.
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a. kappa. b. coverage. c. validity. d. reliability.
Participants assigned to the roles of guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment were able to use physical punishment to keep control of "prisoners."
a. True b. False