TRIANGULAR THEORY OF

LOVE QUIZ
By Maria Paz Bohorquez 7a
1. How is Sternbergs Theory of love divided?
2. Define an Empty love relationship
3. Which type of relationship characterizes a true friendship? Why?
4. What are the tree elements that compose this theory?
5.Who created the triangular theory love?
6.What does this theory explains?
7. Describe the Romantic love relationship
8. What does the intimacy component refers to?
9. When there is a balance between the three elements, how do we call it?
10. What is an example of fatuous love?
11. How do you know you have passion in a relationship?
12. How many types of love are in the theory?
13. What does decision/commitment component refers to?
14. What is the meaning of a Consummate love?
15. Give an example of a Fatuous love
16. What type of love do you consider Jane and Stradlater have?
17. Do Jane and Holden have a Romantic love?
18. Many people think Romeo and Juliet had an ideal love (Consummate love),
is this true? Why?
19. Does the setting of the story affect the type of love Romeo and Juliet
have?

KEY ANSWERS
1.Sternbergs theory describes types of love based on three different scales:
intimacy, passion, and commitment. It is divided in different kind of
relationships based on the tree elements.
2. Empty love is a form of love that involves commitment but without passion
or intimacy. Most of relationships often begin as empty love.
3. Sternbergs theory says that LINKIN characterizes true friendships, because
is where a person feels a bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with
another, but not intense passion or long-term commitment.
4. The tree elements in the theory are: intimacy, passion and commitment.
5. The creator of the Triangular theory is the psychologist Robert Sternberg.
6. The triangular theory of love explains the topic of love in an interpersonal
relationship.
7.Romantic lovers are bonded emotionally (as in liking)and physically through
passionate arousal. The romantic lovers feel attraction and attachment.
8. The intimacy component refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, and
bondedness in loving relationships.
9. When all the three pillars of love are combine (intimacy, passion, and
commitment), we call it a Consummate love relationship.
10. A successful long-term marriage in which there is no more passion.
11. Passion is not the same thing as sex, you can have sex without passion, and
you can have passion without sex. Passion is how much you think about
somebody, its how excited you are when they call, or how much your world
comes into harmony when youre around them.
12. In the triangular love theory there are seven different types of love.
13. The commitment component refers to, in the short term, the decision that
one loves someone else, and in the long term, the commitment to maintain
that love.

14.Consummate love is the complete form of love, representing the ideal

relationship toward which many people strive but which apparently few
achieve.
15. A whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a commitment is motivated
largely by passion, without the stabilizing influence of intimacy.
16. They have a linking relationship because Stradlater is only interested in
"very sexy stuff, he is the boy that is good in only one thing, sex. As Holden
tells us, "Most guys at Pencey just talked about having sexual intercourse
with girls all the time and Stradlater is not the exception, so he leads the
relationship to a liking status in which Jane seems compromised because he
is the hottest guy in the campus and she doesnt know what to really do.
17. No, they are in a empty love because Jane never actually appears in the
story, but Holden frequently thinks about her. Holden, then, regards Jane as
a close friend and that he is probably deeply attracted to her.
18. Since a different point of view, the belief of a perfect relationship is not
correct, not because the fights between the two families (Montague and
Capulet); there are many clues that reveal that the relationship between the
Romeo and Juliet wasnt a Consummate love, the main fact of this theory is
the time. The time because the storys duration is of six days approximately,
this is a very short time to create a perfect love or ideal love.
19. Yes, the setting and the trame of the story affect completely their love. In
the first part, there are the fights between their families, the first reason
why they cant meet in a better way or that they can behave as a normal
couple; in the other hand, there is the age through they are passing, they
are teenagers and they are starting to know what is love and how it is.
Third, there is the setting of the story; in the middle age parents had control
of the relationship of their sons, and like the life expectancy was too short,
people had to take decisions in an early age (like marriage).