Module 4

Question 1

A good marriage acts as a _______________ against mental health problems such as alienation, loneliness, unhappiness, and depression.

Answer 1

Buffer.

Question 2

The role interactions that occur in marriage become more complicated when:

Answer 2

Children enter the picture.

Question 3

The belief that older people are not interested in sex is:

Answer 3

A myth.

Question 4

One of the things that married couples can do to maintain a fulfilling sex life is to:

Answer 4

Start dating one another again.

Question 5

Married men have longer life expectancies than:

Answer 5

Single men.

Question 6

Stanley Graham, in his presidential address to the American Psychological Association’s 99th Annual Convention, argued that the emancipation of women was paralleled by:

Answer 6

The abandoning of responsibility by men.

Question 7

Inhibited sexual desire is:

Answer 7

A pervasive disinterest in sex.

Question 8

It appears that human females are the only females capable of experiencing:

Answer 8

Intense orgasmic responses.

Question 9

One important sexual differences between men and women is that women have to learn how to:

Answer 9

Reach orgasm.

Question 10

Married women appear to have a lower risk of domestic violence than:

Answer 10

Single women.

Question 11

Critics of the sexual addiction thesis point out that sex is the only addiction in which the addict does not:

Answer 11

Give up the abusing behavior.

Question 12

Sexual behavior is regulated in:

Answer 12

All human societies.

Question 13

Successful marriages exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

• Relative agreement on important issues
• Constant passion
• Positive partner interaction
• Team work

Answer 13

Constant passion.

Question 14

Ben’s parents are divorced. The odds of Ben being divorced as an adult are:

Answer 14

Twice as likely.

Question 15

Marital disruption is considerably higher among families that are:

Answer 15

In economic trouble.

Question 16

The current term for society’s sanctioned arrangement for sexual relations is:

Answer 16

Marriage.

Question 17

All of the following tasks are associated with the transition to married life EXCEPT:

• Shifting from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
• Developing new relationships with parents.
• Learning to do leisure activities on the spur of the moment.
• Living within a prescribed budget.

Answer 17

Learning to do leisure activities on the spur of the moment.

Question 18

If marital success is defined as happiness only, no marriage could be successful because:

Answer 18

No family is happy all of the time.

Question 19

Human sexuality is based on:

Answer 19

Learning.

Question 20

In order to build a successful marriage, couples must learn to balance:

Answer 20

Togetherness and autonomy.