Deck 8: Forming Intimate Relationships

Question 1

The best answer to the question "Is Love Universal?" is probably

A) Yes, all societies have had some form of romantic love.
B) No, some societies lack any kind of love.
C) Romantic love for mate selection does not exist universally.
D) Romantic love exists only in hunting-gathering societies.
E) Romantic love exists only in agricultural societies.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In ancient Greece,

A) Only heterosexual love was recognized.
B) Passionate love was expected to be part of marriage and family life.
C) Romantic love was considered the highest form of love.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The version of Romeo and Juliette told in the Middle Ages in Europe

A) Portrayed romantic love among young adults as a highly desirable emotion.
B) Indicated that romantic love was dangerous and undesirable.
C) Indicated that romantic love did not exist.
D) Both (a) and (c).
E) Both (b) and (c).

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"Courtly love"

A) Was a code of romantic behavior idealized among the aristocracy of medieval Europe.
B) Consisted solely of sexual attraction.
C) Consisted solely of spiritual love.
D) Both (a) and (b).
E) Both (a) and (c).

Question 5

Romanticism was

A) The development of using romantic love for mate selection in ancient Rome.
B) An artistic an intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18^th century.
C) The result of a change from hunting-gathering to horticultural societies.
D) A theme of early folk songs in the United States.
E) Originally the purest form of spiritual love.

Question 6

A referent is

A) A thing that stands for something else.
B) The something else for which a symbol stands.
C) A source of scholarly information.
D) The person who is loved.
E) The person who judges whether a new relationship contract is valid.

Question 7

A "love-appropriate relationship" is

A) A relationship to which the incest taboo does not apply.
B) A relationship that has the approval of the participants' extended families.
C) An affiliation in which the partners mutually accept the use of the word "love."
D) Symbolically meaningless to the participants.
E) Never established until the couple gets married.

Question 8

"A systematic classification of related phenomena based on defined characteristics or traits" is

A) A typology.
B) An ideal type.
C) A continuum.
D) A dichotomy.
E) A stereotype.

Question 9

An affectionate, companionate style of loving is

A) Agape.
B) Mania.
C) Storge.
D) Ludus.
E) Pragma.

Question 10

The love style most likely to result in extreme jealousy is

A) Agape.
B) Mania.
C) Storge.
D) Ludus.
E) Pragma.

Question 11

Research using Lee's love styles found that couples with which love style were most likely to break up?

A) Eros.
B) Mania.
C) Storge.
D) Ludus.
E) Pragma.

Question 12

Passionate love, in Hatfield and Walster's typology, is most similar to which of Lee's types?

A) Eros.
B) Mania.
C) Storge.
D) Ludus.
E) Pragma.

Question 13

Companionate love, in Hatfield and Walster's typology, is most similar to which of Lee's types?

A) Eros.
B) Mania.
C) Storge.
D) Ludus.
E) Pragma.

Question 14

Sternberg's triangle of love is composed of which elements?

A) Eros, mania, and storge.
B) Companionate, Passionate, and Spiritual.
C) Eros, Ludus, and Pragma.
D) Romantic love, conjugal love, and dependent love.
E) Intimacy, passion, and commitment.

Question 15

Which of the following is a criticism of complementary needs theories of love?

A) They focus too much on sociological needs and not enough on psychological needs.
B) It is difficult to define and measure "complementary needs."
C) The fact that a couple exhibits "complementary needs" does not necessarily prove that is the reason they fell in love.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (b) and (c) above.

Question 16

Value theories of love

A) Suggest that individuals will be attracted to others with similar role expectations.
B) Have received no empirical support-couples values are always different.
C) Have not demonstrated that similarity of values is the cause of the initial attraction.
D) Both (a) and (b) above.
E) Both (a) and (c) above.

Question 17

What is the proper order of events in Reiss's wheel theory of love?

A) Self-revelation, intimacy-need fulfillment, rapport, mutual dependence.
B) Rapport, self-revelation, mutual dependence, intimacy-need fulfillment.
C) Intimacy-need fulfillment, mutual dependence, self-revelation, rapport.
D) Rapport, intimacy-need fulfillment, mutual dependence, self-revelation.
E) Mutual dependence, self-revelation, rapport, intimacy-need fulfillment.

Question 18

In Murstein's model, SVR stand for

A) Sexual attraction, veracity, romance.
B) Similarity, variation, romance.
C) Stimulus, value, role.
D) Stamina, vigor, rest.
E) Sensation, verification, ratification.

Question 19

Reiss's wheel theory of love and Murstein's SVR model are both what types of theories?

A) Symbolic interactionist.
B) Structure-functionalist.
C) Individualist compatibility.
D) Sequential stage.
E) Value and role compatibility.

Question 20

According to Cancian's "Feminization of love,"

A) Women are biologically designed to love more than men do.
B) Men are biologically designed to love more than women do.
C) Women and men are biologically designed to love equally.
D) Women appear to love more because love is measured with a feminine-biased ruler.
E) Men appear to love more because love is measured with a masculine-biased ruler.

Question 21

Empirical studies comparing loving style of men and women have found that

A) Women are more likely than men to use the word "love" first in a relationship.
B) Men score higher than do women on the "romanticism scale."
C) Men score higher on storge, pragma and mania.
D) Both (a) and (c) above.
E) Both (b) and (c) above.

Question 22

"A scientific approach that attempts to use biological and evolutionary principles to explain the behavior of all social animals, including human beings" is

A) Sociobiology.
B) Social Darwinism.
C) Sociolinguistics.
D) Anthropomorphism.
E) Ethnology.

Question 23

Genetic similarity theories

A) Hold that people are more likely to form bonds with others who are genetically similar to themselves.
B) Hold that people naturally avoid close relationships with others of similar genetics.
C) Help explain why people are seldom sexually attracted to their brothers and sisters.
D) Both (a) and (c).
E) Both (b) and (c).

Question 24

Sexual strategies theory

A) Is based on the assumption that sexual behavior can be explained in terms of the social development of learned sexual scripts.
B) Concludes that women will generally get greater payoffs from long-term than from short-term mating strategies.
C) Concludes that short-term mating will represent a larger component of men's sexual strategies than of women's sexual strategies.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (b) and (c) above.

Question 25

In a test of sexual strategies theory, What did Buss find about jealousy in men and women?

A) Both men and women thought they would be more jealous of sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity.
B) Both men and women thought they would be more jealous of emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity.
C) Most men thought sexual infidelity was worse, while most women thought emotional infidelity was worse.
D) Most men though emotional infidelity was worse, while most women though sexual infidelity was worse.
E) Both men and women thought sexual infidelity and emotional infidelity were equally distressing.

Question 26

Hill concluded that women are more likely than men to end engagements because

A) Men are more likely to be abusive.
B) Women are more dependent on their partner, so marital choice is more important to them.
C) Women are less attuned to relationship quality.
D) There are more men than there are women, so women have more options.
E) Women are less practical than are men.

Question 27

the "principle of least interest" is the idea that

A) The partner who cares the least about the relationship has the most power.
B) The nicest people are the least interesting in relationships.
C) The less interest one earns, the safer the investment.
D) The people with the least interest in getting married end up having the best marriages.
E) The fewer interests a couple shares the more likely the relationship is to end.

Question 28

A conflict-theory view of jealousy is that

A) Couples with the most conflict are most likely to get jealous.
B) Couples with the most conflict are least likely to get jealous.
C) Societies that treat relationships like property ownership are likely to have more jealousy.
D) Societies that value egalitarian relationships are likely to have more jealousy.
E) Most jealousy occurs when men and women disagree about sexual morality.

Question 29

Which of the following increases the probability that a person will commit dating violence?

A) Being a victim of abuse as a child.
B) Witnessing one parent abuse the other in the family of orientation.
C) Being a victim of dating violence.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 30

How did "courtly love" differ from the kind of romantic love that exists today?

Question 31

How does the symbol "love" become attached to its referents?

Question 32

Outline Lee's typology of love, and review the research that has been done using the concept.

Question 33

Present and evaluate individualistic compatibility theories of love.

Question 34

In what ways are Reis's wheel theory of love and Murstein's SVR theory of love similar? How do they differ?

Question 35

In what ways might men and women love differently?

Question 36

Present and evaluate sexual strategies theory as it relates to male-female differences.

Question 37

What factors increase the chances that a relationship will last?

Question 38

Based on evidence in the book, construct a "profile" of a persons who might become violent in a dating relationship.