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Core Concepts in Health Cover Image
Core Concepts in Health, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine
Intimate Relationships and Communication


gender role  A culturally expected pattern of behavior and attitudes determined by whether a person is male or female.
attachment  The emotional tie between an infant and his or her caregiver, or between two people in an intimate relationship.
infatuation  An idealizing, obsessive attraction, characterized by a high degree of physical arousal.
cohabitation  Living together in a sexual relationship without being married.
sexual orientation  A consistent pattern of emotional and sexual attraction based on biological sex; it exists along a continuum that ranges from exclusive heterosexuality (attraction to people of the other sex) through bisexuality (attraction to people of both sexes) to exclusive homosexuality (attraction to people of one's own sex).
homosexual  Emotional and sexual attraction to people of one's own sex.
heterosexual  Emotional and sexual attraction to people of the other sex.








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