chapter 3 (dates, cohabitating couples, marriage)

Question 1

romantic love

Answer 1

a view of love that is influenced by idealistic thoughts about partner selection, such as chivalry and a search for one’s soul partner.

Question 2

complementary needs theory

Answer 2

robert winch proposed that in seeking a partner, people are typically drawn to someone whose needs are opposite and complementary to their own.

Question 3

expressive exchange

Answer 3

exchange of emotional and sexual benefits.

Question 4

instrumental exchange

Answer 4

exchange of practical and useful benefits, such as unpaid work or financial support.

Question 5

social role theory

Answer 5

people will seek mates that best represent or personify the ideal characteristics of their gender (ex: masculine men and feminine women).

Question 6

endogamy

Answer 6

marriage to a member of one’s own tribe or social group.

Question 7

sexual double standard

Answer 7

application of different rules/standards of behaviour to men vs. women.

Question 8

sexual scripts

Answer 8

attitudes and activities that a culture links to gender or that are typically expected of members of a particular gender when dating.

Question 9

homogamy

Answer 9

the selection of a partner with similar social qualities, such as class, education level, religion, race, or ethnicity.

Question 10

marriage gradient

Answer 10

systematic difference between partners such that men are typically older and of higher social or economic status than their female partners.

Question 11

exogamy

Answer 11

marriage outside one’s own tribe or social group.

Question 12

perfect partner

Answer 12

one’s theoretical ideal partner.