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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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  1. According to your text, intimacy refers to

A. closeness between two people.
B. being in love.
C. having a satisfying relationship with someone.
D. having a lot in common with someone.

A

A

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  1. Factors affecting commitment include all of the following EXCEPT

A. structural constraints.
B. structural balance.
C. normative inputs.
D. balance of costs and benefits.

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B

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  1. Kate decided to leave her husband because she believed she was putting much more into the relationship than she was getting out of it. Kate’s decision to leave was affected by

A. the balance of costs and benefits.
B. normative inputs.
C. structural constraints.
D. obsessing over the relationship.

A

A

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  1. Marital commitments may last longer than those of unmarried couples because

A. married people are happier.
B. norms and structural constraints compensate for the lack of personal satisfaction.
C. structural constraints do not apply to marriage.
D. married people are more satisfied with their relationships.

A

B

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  1. Intimate relationships provide us with all of the following benefits EXCEPT

A. preventing depression.
B. buffering us against loneliness.
C. enhancing our self-esteem.
D. providing us with positive feelings about others.

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A

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  1. Ron and Sue feel that they understand each other in a special way. Reiss refers to this as

A. rapport.
B. self-revelation.
C. mutual dependency.
D. intimacy needs fulfillment.

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A

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  1. Davis and Patty have developed ways of acting and being that cannot be fulfilled alone. Reiss refers to this as

A. rapport.
B. self-revelation.
C. mutual dependency.
D. intimacy needs fulfillment.

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C

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  1. All of the following are components of the Wheel Theory of Love EXCEPT

A. mutual dependency.
B. rapport.
C. self-revelation.
D. normative inputs.

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D

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  1. Which of the following IS NOT a central feature of romantic love?

A. trust
B. butterflies in the stomach
C. acceptance
D. sharing thoughts and secrets

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B

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  1. For Erika and John love is a game, something to play at rather than become deeply involved in. This illustrates

A. mania.
B. ludus.
C. agape.
D. storge.

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B

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  1. Bill and Linda have a type of love that is chaste, patient, and understanding. John Lee refers to this as _____ love.

A. agape
B. pragma
C. ludus
D. storge

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A

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  1. For Allen and Sara love involves sleepless nights and painful, anxiety-filled days. This illustrates _____ love.

A. mania
B. ludus
C. agape
D. pragma

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A

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  1. According to Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, the combination of intimacy and passion results in

A. liking
B. infatuation.
C. romantic love.
D. empty love.

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C

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  1. Which of the components of Sternberg‘s theory of love refers to the elements of romance, attraction, and sexuality in a relationship?

A. intimacy
B. passion
C. decision/commitment
D. mania

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B

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  1. Our romantic view of love-based marriage is based on which social class?

A. upper
B. upper middle
C. middle
D. lower

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C

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  1. Companionate love consists of

A. intimacy only.
B. commitment and passion.
C. commitment only.
D. commitment and intimacy.

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D

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  1. The combination of intimacy, passion, and commitment results in

A. romantic love.
B. fatuous love.
C. consummate love.
D. infatuation.

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C

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  1. _____ or deceptive love is whirlwind love; it begins the day a couple meet and quickly results in cohabitation or engagement, then marriage.

A. Romantic
B. Fatuous
C. Consummate
D. Companionate

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B

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  1. Those who are dissatisfied with _____ love often engage in extra-relational affairs to maintain the passion in their lives.

A. romantic
B. fatuous
C. consummate
D. companionate

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D

20
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  1. Infants who sense their mother’s detachment and rejection when they desire close bodily contact develop a(n) _____ attachment style.

A. anxious/avoidant
B. avoidant
C. secure
D. insecure

A

B

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  1. Bridget is very attractive. Therefore, others assume she is also intelligent and kind. This phenomenon is referred to as the:

A. generalization tendency
B. the halo effect
C. the do good, feel good phenomenon
D. the Kohn effect

A

B

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  1. Lucy feels unworthy of love and needs approval from others. She fears that her boyfriend does not really love her. Her attachment style is

A. anxious/ambivalent.
B. avoidant.
C. secure.
D. insecure.

A

A

23
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  1. Unrequited love is most likely to be experienced by people with _____ attachment style.

A. insecure
B. secure
C. avoidant
D. anxious/ambivalent

A

D

24
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  1. According to attachment theory

A. a lover cannot be an attachment object.
B. all important love relationships are attachments.
C. most infants studied showed the “anxious/ambivalent” attachment style.
D. early life attachments do not influence later relationships.

A

B

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  1. According to the research of Baumeister and others, all of the following are true regarding unrequited love EXCEPT

A. Unrequited love was distressing for both would-be lover and the rejecting partner.
B. Rejectors did not usually experience guilt.
C. Rejectors saw would-be lovers as self-deceptive and unreasonable.
D. Would-be lovers saw their rejectors as inconsistent and mysterious.

A

B

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26. Which style of unrequited love consists of a general desire to be in love regardless of whom one loves? 
A. Cyrano
B. Giselle
C. Don Quixote
D. Don Juan
A

C

27
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  1. A student who has an intense crush on a married professor despite the fact that there is absolutely no chance that the love will ever be reciprocated is exhibiting which style of unrequited love?

A. Oedipus
B. Cyrano
C. Don Quixote
D. Giselle

A

B

28
Q
  1. The hook up culture is believed to

A. make relationship building easier.
B. make relationship building more difficult.
C. make women less interested in forming relationships.
D. be as common today as it was in the 1940s and 1950s.

A

B

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  1. Anxious/ambivalent adults are most likely to become

A. Don Juans.
B. Don Quixotes.
C. Giselles.
D. Cyranos.

A

D

30
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  1. Jealousy

A. is a yardstick for measuring insecurity or possessiveness.
B. is a sign of love.
C. proves interest or affection.
D. is rarely linked to violence.

A

A

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  1. Which of the following statements regarding sex differences in jealousy is true?

A. Men feel most jealous when their partner is emotionally involved with another man.
B. Men feel particularly vulnerable to losing their partner to a more physically attractive rival.
C. Women experience more anger in response to jealousy than do men.
D. Gender differences in jealousy have been found in the U. S., China, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

A

D

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  1. Managing jealousy requires all of the following EXCEPT

A. the ability to communicate.
B. the recognition by each partner of the feelings and motivation of the other.
C. a willingness to reciprocate and compromise.
D. a willingness to promise never to provoke a jealous response again.

A

D

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  1. Our commitment to a relationship will remain high as long as we

A. continue to experience passionate love.
B. continue to experience agape love.
C. judge the relationship to be successful.
D. judge the relationship to be logical.

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C

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  1. When we first meet someone, intimacy increases rapidly as we

A. make critical discoveries about each other.
B. become more and more sexually active.
C. develop a successful relationship.
D. become habituated to passion.

A

A

35
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  1. Romantic love has been the basis for family formation in the United States for

A. the last 150 years.
B. most of the last two centuries.
C. only the last five decades.
D. only the last century.

A

B

36
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  1. _____ is the tendency to marry people much like ourselves.

A. Heterogeneity
B. Conjugal matching
C. Homogamy
D. Pragma

A

C

37
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  1. Maddie is very jealous even though there is no reason to believe her boyfriend is unfaithful. Maddie is experiencing which type of jealousy?

A. atypical
B. manic
C. reactive
D. suspicious

A

D

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  1. Hendrick and Hendrick’s Love Attitude Scale is an instrument based on

A. Hendrick’s and Hendrick’s theory of love.
B. John Lee’s six styles of love.
C. Sternberg’s triangular theory of love.
D. Rubin’s theory of love.

A

B

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  1. Meg tends to anticipate and overreact to rejection. Meg’s behavior is an example of

A. rejection sensitivity.
B. anticipatory rejection.
C. overreaction syndrome.
D. preemptive rejection.

A

A

40
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  1. According to Dolores Borland, we should think of love not as a wheel but rather as a

A. clockspring.
B. sphere.
C. triangle.
D. square.

A

A

41
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  1. Same-sex couples appear to have more equal relationships than heterosexual couples

A. in their division of labor.
B. in how they argue.
C. in how they resolve conflicts.
D. all of the above

A

D

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  1. Based on the feminization of love, we would expect that

A. women would be more interested than men in love.
B. men’s expressions of love would be undervalued.
C. women would be more likely to need love rather than want love.
D. men would be less romantic and concerned with love than women.

A

B

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  1. Love in same-sex relationships

A. helps solidify a person’s identity as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
B. is more common among gay males than lesbians.
C. is based more on sexual attraction than it is in heterosexual relationships.
D. is relatively unimportant.

A

A

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  1. Which of the following IS FALSE regarding love?

A. It involves opposites such as excitement and boredom.
B. It is more of an activity than a feeling.
C. It involves an element of doubt over sincerity.
D. It involves the question of mutuality.

A

B

45
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  1. When examining the role that love has in American culture, we find that:

A. love is less important in mate selection in American than it is in Europe.
B. love is dysfunctional in industrialized societies.
C. love has become less important in marriage in the last two decades.
D. love-based marriage matches American cultural ideals of autonomy and freedom.

A

D

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