week 1

Question 1

7 components of intimacy

Answer 1

knowledge, interdependence, caring, mutuality, trust responsiveness and commitment

Question 2

What does knowledge mean about intimacy?

Answer 2

intimate partners have extensive, personal, condifidential info on eachother

Question 3

interdependence in intimacy mean

Answer 3

intimate partners have strong, diverse and enduring influence on eachother

Question 4

caring in reference with intimate relationships

Answer 4

Intimate partners feel more affection for one another than they do for most others

Question 5

mutuality in reference with intimate relationships

Answer 5

intimate partners think of themselves as a couple instead of two entirely separate individuals

Question 6

Trust in intamacy refers to

Answer 6

intimate partners expect
treatment from one another that is fair and
honorable

Question 7

responsiveness

Answer 7

intimate partners are
attentive to each other’s needs, and they
support each other more effectively than
they do most others.

Question 8

Commitment refers to

Answer 8

intimate partners expect
their relationship to continue, and they
work to realize that goal.

Question 9

Why do intimate relationships matter

Answer 9

the need to belong

Question 10

Why do intimate relationships matter: people suffer both mentally and physically when they lack

Answer 10

intimacy

Question 11

a tendency to form stable, affectionate, connections to others may have been…

Answer 11

evolutionary adaptive

Question 12

what model displays intimate relationships matter?

Answer 12

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Question 13

What was found with healthy couples and poor marital couples get diagnosed with an illness. Whats the trend of death in these groups

Answer 13

people with illness live longer if there in better marital quality

Question 14

Influence of culture: people are marrying more or less

Answer 14

marrying less

Question 15

what is the trend for how long people wait to get married

Answer 15

people are waiting longer to marry

Question 16

what percent of marriages end in divorce?

Answer 16

half 50%

Question 17

Most children live in a single—parent home sometime during

Answer 17

their childhood

Question 18

What are 3 reasons cultural norms changed?

Answer 18

socioeconomic development, increasing individualism, technology

Question 19

Influence of experience: infants interactions with their caregivers shape their

Answer 19

attachment style- their learned orientations toward relationships with others

Question 20

Were all individuals with our own combinations of experience and traits: 5 traits

Answer 20

1. Sex differences.
2. Gender differences.
3. Personality.
4. Self-esteem.
5. Sexual orientation.

Question 21

Sex differences: Stereotypes suggest that man and women have little in common, so the ranges of their traits and interests are

Answer 21

completely separate

Question 22

Actual sex differences take the form of

Answer 22

overlapping normal curves and most sex differences are rather small

Question 23

Sex differences refer to

Answer 23

biological distinctions between man and women

Question 24

gender differences refer to

Answer 24

social and psychological distinctions created by our cultures and upbrining

Question 25

What are gender roles?

Answer 25

Patterns of behaviour that are expected of normal men and women

Question 26

Male gender role expectation?

Answer 26

Men are expected to be masculine or assertive, self-reliant, decisive and competitive.

Question 27

female gender role expectation

Answer 27

Women are expected to be warm, sensitive, emotionally expressive and kind.

Question 28

Individual differences: 5 big personality traits

Answer 28

agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, open-mindedness

Question 29

What of the five traits are influential in intimate relationships?

Answer 29

Agreeable and extroverted people are cheerful and enthusiastic.

Conscientious people keep their promises

people high in negative emotionality are pessimistic and argumentative

Question 30

What is soclometer theory?

Answer 30

Self-esteem is a gauge that measures the quality of our relationships with others.

When others like us, we like ourselves

Question 31

like gender, sexual orientation is complex, being comprised of 3 things

Answer 31

identities, attractions and behaviours

Question 32

compare same sex couples vs hetrosexual sex couples

Answer 32

Same-sex couples have better relationships than heteros do

Question 33

evolution may have instilled in us certain tendencies that shape our

Answer 33

relationtionships

Question 34

what are three assumptions of evolutionary psychology?

Answer 34

sexual selection has sculpted our species

men and women differ only to the extent that they have faced different reproductive dilemmas

3. cultures determine whether certain behaviours are adaptive and cultural changes occur faster than human nature

Question 35

What different reproductive dilemas do mena and women face? what is parental investment

Answer 35

: men and women differ enormously in the
minimum time and biological effort they have to provide to each
child they produce.

Question 36

what is paternity uncertinity

Answer 36

men, but not women, may face doubts
about whether or not a particular child is theirs.

Question 37

influence of interactions: relationships emerge from the combination of the partners

Answer 37

experiences and talents and are often much more than the sum of those parts

Question 38

relationships are also fluid, blank processesses rather than static blank things

Answer 38

Relationships are also fluid, dynamic processes rather than
static, changeless things.