Intimate Relations Flashcards
A large body of research into intimate relationships suggests that physical attractiveness is:
-Largely objective
-Partly culturally determined (B & C)
According to Pronk and Righetti (2015) in their paper on executive control, when people have high executive control they are likely to change their behaviour to one that:
Is optimal in the circumstances
According to Reis and Rusbult (2004), three theoretical orientations for studying intimate relationships are:
Evolutionary, Attachment, Interdependence
The core evolutionary reason that humans form romantic relationships is what?
Pair-bonding has led to improved infant care
Heterosexual women’s preference for masculine body shape are greatest:
At peak fertility in women
Pound et al (2014) examined the relationship between facial symmetry in adolescence and health in childhood. They concluded that:
No association between facial symmetry and childhood health
-None of the above
In Sternberg’s model of love, which of the following properties is NOT true of companionate love?
Develops through imagine gratification
In Thibaut and Kelley’s interdependence theory (1970s), comparison levels refer to:
What we think we deserve from the relationship
Sternberg proposes passion, intimacy and commitment as the three components of his model of love, which of the following is proposed by his model?
Passion alone = infatuation
A strength of the vulnerability - stress - adaptation model (Karney & Bradbury, 1995) is that it considers the stability of long-term relationships to be based on:
-Personal traits and characteristics that we bring to the relationship
-Difficult circumstances that we endure when in the relationship
-Our coping strategies when faced with adversities
ALL OF THE ABOVE
In the paper by Henrich (2012) on normative monogamy, the main hypothesis is that ‘The modern package of norms and institutions that constitutes monogamous marriage has been shaped by cultural evolution driven by’:
Inter-group competition
Which of Lees’ primary love styles is best characterised as preference for quantity of quality of relationships: marriage being regarded as a a trap; infidelity being commonplace?
Ludus
In Buss’ (1988) taxonomy of mate retention tactics how would we classify direct verbal insults between spouses?
INTERsexual negative inducements
A personal relationship is distinctive from other relationships by:
Interactions being informal and relying on shared knowledge of each other
Partible paternity can be regarded as a form of:
Polyandry
Polyandry benefits a society where:
There is a desire to reduce the number of offspring per adult
Skin blood perfusion in women:
optimises healthy appearance
What is generally accepted as the best explanation for the positive relationship between health and marriage?
A combination of the selective and protective hypothesis
Which of the following is true of polygynous societies?
There is a surplus of unattached men
Neuroimaging studies suggests that ______ love is associated with activation in the ______.
Romantic; Ventral tegmental area of the brain
