Exam II

Question 1

Define richness

Answer 1

Means that they have many ways of communicating with each other, even many ways of conveying the same thing

Question 2

How does Cox believe that negative thoughts should be communicated?

Question 3

Define communication flow

Answer 3

creating a sense of order in which messages flow back and forth smoothly between sender and reciever

Question 4

List the steps in the communication flow in order.

Answer 4

1) to encode the message & send it to the receiver via some verbal, nonverbal, or written communication channel
2) the receiver then decodes the message & then feed back what has been decoded to the sender
3) the sender verifies the message

Question 5

What communication strategies are associated with covert conflict?

Answer 5

-contempt, criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, belligerence

Question 6

What is meant by ‘hooking up’?

Answer 6

engaging in sexual activity w/out commitment interaction

Question 7

Date rape drugs sedate and cause what other side-effect?

Answer 7

short-term memory loss

Question 8

Define desirables and availables.

Answer 8

desirable- ppl to whom one is attracted

available- those who are free to return one’s interest

Question 9

Define propinquity.

Answer 9

dating and marrying someone living quite close geographically

Question 10

Define endogamy or endogamic factors.

Answer 10

marrying someone in your own group

Question 11

What happens when the ‘honeymoon phase’ is over?

Answer 11

basically things become more realistic

Question 12

What factor has the greatest impact on marital role expectations?

Answer 12

romantic ideals and expectations

Question 13

How does family stability affect commitment?

Question 14

What can happen to adulterous women in some Middle Eastern countries?

Question 15

What do some biologists say about the differences in sex drives in men and women?

Answer 15

some biologist say that they stem from inborn differences in biological makeup between males & females. most believe that the differences stem from the socialization processes that teach men and women their gender roles & the place of several behavior in their lives

Question 16

Define empathic listening.

Answer 16

nonjudgmental and accepting tells the speaker that the listener hears and cares

Question 17

Why are political efforts being made to narrow the digital divide?

Answer 17

because everyone does not have web access

Question 18

Should a successful marriage help fulfill psychological, material, and sexual needs?

Answer 18

yes

Question 19

Do all states recognize legal marriage contracts?

Answer 19

yes

Question 20

Are men or women more at risk for complications from STDs?

Question 21

Which child do parents try to exert the most influence over in the mate selection process?

Answer 21

their daughters choices

Question 22

Which has fewer rules, high school or college dating?

Answer 22

college dating

Question 23

Where is a teen’s first sexual encounter most likely to occur?

Answer 23

usually in the home of one partners

Question 24

Who is a female most likely to have her first sexual encounter with?

Answer 24

A man 2-3 years older than her

Question 25

Why do men primarily cohabitate?

Answer 25

for the convenience of sex

Question 26

Discuss Loving v. Virginia and what the Supreme Court ruled.

Answer 26

they prohibited interracial marriages end of WWII 30 state had that law Supreme Court declared laws unconstitutional

Question 27

Is the engagement period as formal as it was for your parents and grandparents?

Question 28

Do married or single people have longer life expectancies?

Answer 28

married

Question 29

If a person’s parents are divorced, what are the odds that they will become divorced as adults?

Question 30

Younger marriages are at greater risk for what?

Answer 30

divorced

Question 31

What can happen if a person’s expectations of a potential marriage partner are too high?

Answer 31

they won’t get married

Question 32

What are the characteristics of a self-actualized person?

Question 33

What do domestic partnership ordinances require of couples?

Question 34

What do prenuptial agreements promote?

Question 35

What has happened to the actual teen birthrate since the 1950s?

Answer 35

it is declining

Question 36

Are cohabiting partners at greater risk for break-up?

Answer 36

yes

Question 37

Does family support help marriages to stay healthy?

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

How does eating together help families to stay together?

Question 39

Define phenomenology.

Answer 39

the study of how people experience their world

Question 40

Who takes extramarital affairs more lightly, men or women?

Answer 40

men

Question 41

Is how a person handles conflict important in the survival of their marriage?

Answer 41

yes

Question 42

Husband means ‘band around the house’ he is primarily the provider and protector of the family.

Answer 42

.

Question 43

Prenuptial contracts do not legally override state marriage contracts.

Answer 43

.

Question 44

Define democratic marriages.

Question 45

All relationships have some form of conflict.

Answer 45

.

Question 46

Define ‘you’ and ‘I’ statements.

Answer 46

I-statements locate the feelings or concerns inside the person who is making the statement
you-statements create distance between people by putting the blame on each other

Question 47

Should empathic listening be judgmental?

Answer 47

no

Question 48

Can all problems and conflicts in life be solved?

Answer 48

no

Question 49

Males and females have different ways of communicating. Just a fact of life, one is not better than the other.

Answer 49

.

Question 50

Define denial.

Answer 50

the action of declaring something to be untrue