Deck 5: Intimacy,friendship,and Love

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Intimate relationships provide us with which of the following benefits?​

A) ​Preventing depression
B) ​Buffering us against companionship
C) ​Enhancing our self-esteem
D) ​Providing us with negative viewpoints about others

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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.

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

Which of the following is a central feature of romantic love?​

A) ​Doubt
B) ​Butterflies in the stomach
C) ​Rejection
D) ​Sharing thoughts and secrets

Question 7

The combination of intimacy,passion,and commitment results in:​

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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.

Question 10

_______ or deceptive love is whirlwind love; it begins the day a couple meets and quickly results in cohabitation or engagement,then marriage.​

A) Romantic​
B) ​Fatuous
C) ​Consummate
D) ​Companionate

Question 11

Factors affecting commitment include:​

A) ​structural freedoms.
B) ​structural balance.
C) ​normative deletions.
D) ​balance of costs and benefits.

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

A) ​Upper
B) ​Upper-middle
C) ​Middle
D) ​Lower

Question 17

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

A) ​insecure
B) ​secure
C) ​avoidant
D) ​anxious/ambivalent

Question 18

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.

Question 19

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

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

Question 20

Companionate love consists of:​

A) ​churning and relationship recycling.
B) ​commitment and passion.
C) ​hooking up and applying prototypes.
D) ​commitment and intimacy.

Question 21

"Nothing serious" is the motto of ludic lovers.​

Question 22

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

Question 23

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.

Question 24

​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.

Question 25

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

A) love is less important in mate selection in America 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.

Question 26

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.

Question 27

Among the styles of love,eros is one of the most enduring.​

Question 28

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.

Question 29

Love between companions is called ludus.​

Question 30

​Women are associated with neither instrumental displays nor expressive displays in relationships.

Question 31

​Co-rumination is more common among girls than boys.

Question 32

The hookup 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.

Question 33

_____ is the tendency to marry people much like ourselves.​

A) ​Heterogeneity
B) ​Conjugal matching
C) ​Homogamy
D) ​Pragma

Question 34

There is a distortion in our understanding of love because there is a feminization of love.​

Question 35

Which of the following encounters best represents a closed field?​

A) ​Coffee and doughnuts at a megachurch
B) ​A small dinner party
C) ​Interactions with seatmates and audience members at a national baseball game
D) ​Celebrations at a political party headquarters

Question 36

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.

Question 37

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.

Question 38

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.

Question 39

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.

Question 40

Managing jealousy requires which of the following?​

A) ​The ability to keep secrets
B) ​The recognition by each partner of the feelings and motivation of the other
C) ​A willingness to ignore and confront
D) ​A willingness to promise never to provoke a jealous response again

Question 41

Men expect more sexual intimacy on dates initiated by women.

Question 42

According to Diamond,romantic love does not require sexual desire.​

Question 43

Researchers agree that attachment styles in adulthood are a result of early childhood experiences.​

Question 44

Our commitment to a relationship will remain high as long as we judge the relationship to be successful.​

Question 45

Most passionate relationships have dramatic break-ups.​

Question 46

True love always involves some jealousy from time to time.​

Question 47

Reactive jealousy is jealousy that occurs when a partner reveals a current,past,or anticipated relationship with another person.​

Question 48

The transformation of passionate love is often experienced as a crisis in a relationship.​

Question 49

In both friendship and love,gender differences may be more exaggerated in what people say than by what people do.​

Question 50

Secure adults find it relatively easy to get close to others.​

Question 51

Romantic love begins to increase as the children grow up and leave home.​

Question 52

Romantic love is usually unimportant in long-term relationships.​