Deck 5: Dating and Mate Selection

Question 1

Which statement about hooking up among college students is INCORRECT?

A) Men have fewer feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem than women after hooking up.
B) Women who have psychosocial stress in their daily lives are more likely to hook up.
C) College men report that their major reason for attending parties is the chance of hooking up.
D) The best predictor of whether hooking up will occur at a party is the availability of alcohol.

Answer 1

College men report that their major reason for attending parties is the chance of hooking up.

Question 2

Your cognitive template of what a relationship should be like is your ______.

A) internal functional guide
B) internal working model
C) internal moral compass
D) internal ethical model

Answer 2

internal working model

Question 3

Which statement is an example of the communal sharing relationship dynamic?

A) My last relationship ended very painfully.
B) I really love to ski.
C) I hate it when people are late.
D) I'm not sure this relationship is working out.

Answer 3

My last relationship ended very painfully.

Question 4

People with dismissing avoidant internal working models of attachment tend to be

A) fearful of being hurt.
B) ambivalent toward their partners.
C) highly self-reliant.
D) open and trusting.

Question 5

Which statement about people with fearful avoidant internal working models of attachment is correct?

A) They feel safest when in an intimate relationship.
B) They have difficulty expressing feelings.
C) Their fear can lead them to become violent.
D) They both desire and fear intimacy.

Question 6

Which statement best expresses the disillusionment model of relationship formation?

A) You make me feel very secure.
B) You don't look like the person I expected to be with.
C) You have changed since we became exclusive.
D) You don't give me enough space.

Question 7

If males are scarce in a population, what mating strategy do females follow?

A) celibacy
B) promiscuity
C) marrying earlier
D) marrying later

Question 8

In all cultures, women tend to be attracted to men who ______.

A) other women are attracted to
B) have a 0.7 waist-to-hip ratio
C) are younger than they are
D) are taller than average

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of a macrosystem influence on your dating life?

A) Your parents impose a very early curfew.
B) You became biologically mature at an early age.
C) Your grandparents pressure your parents to impose a curfew.
D) There is a spike in the incidence of date rape in your community.

Question 10

Which neurotransmitter is associated with feelings of infatuation?

A) dopamine
B) serotonin
C) oxytocin
D) norepinephrine

Question 11

Oxytocin, which gives us a sense of calm security, and vasopressin, which influences feelings of emotional bonding, both circulate in higher amounts in the brain during the:

A) lust phase
B) addiction phase
C) attraction phase
D) attachment phase

Question 12

The three phases of chemical attachment are ______.

A) lust, attraction, and attachment
B) lust, attachment, and repulsion
C) communal sharing, authority ranking, and equality matching
D) communal sharing, authority ranking, and market pricing

Question 13

Which statement about couples who are insecurely attached is CORRECT?

A) They tend to have lower than normal cortisol levels.
B) They tend to remain in a heightened state of physiological arousal.
C) They tend to report feeling low levels of anxiety about relationship problems.
D) They tend to exhibit higher than average coping abilities.

Question 14

Which statement about people who are highly stress reactive is CORRECT?

A) They have high cortisol levels.
B) They tend to be reckless.
C) They tend to be fearless.
D) They tend to take many risks.

Question 15

This process states that the more you see a person, the more you like that person.

A) repeated measure effect
B) simple contact effect
C) mere exposure effect
D) sheer contact effect

Question 16

In what percentage of societies is monogamy the normative marriage system?

A) 1%
B) 6%
C) 16%
D) 96%

Question 17

Laws that banned sexual relations or marriage between persons of different races were called ______.

A) anti-miscegenation laws
B) anti-ethnicization laws
C) anti-mitigation laws
D) anti-misogynous laws

Question 18

In general, ethnic minority youth who are LGBT have relatively little difficulty establishing a secure sexual identity because ______.

A) their ethnic communities are accepting of sexual minorities
B) their ethnic communities include strong social support networks
C) ethnic minority youth tend to come out at a later stage, when they have already left home
D) ethnic minority youth have developed skills to help them cope with marginalization

Question 19

Which of the following is a recent dating trend among senior adults?

A) Women want to date but do not want to marry.
B) Men want to date but do not want to marry.
C) Women who are in good health are less likely to date.
D) Men who are in good health are less likely to date.

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for becoming a perpetrator of dating violence?

A) involvement with antisocial friends
B) history of academic problems
C) history of family violence
D) depression and anxiety

Question 21

Most people experience some level of homophily or attraction to partners who are similar to them.

Question 22

Gender role expectations no longer play a major role in the dating game.

Question 23

The traditional western dating pattern is patriarchal because it centers around girls looking for boys who can take care of them, and when pairs form, the importance of the boyfriend overshadows the girls' previous friendships.

Question 24

Filter theory focuses on obvious as well as subtle power differentials. It argues that over time, people start to question their traditional roles and want more for themselves than those roles provide.

Question 25

Conflict theory states that we sift through all possible potential mates until smaller and smaller groups of eligible mates are formed.

Question 26

Pigmentocracy means that the color of one's skin determines how many dating opportunities he or she has.

Question 27

Many sexual minority youth report engaging in heterosexual sexual experiences and actually enjoying it.

Question 28

Surprisingly, research shows that late life dating does not follow traditional gender roles; instead, women ask men out and pay for things.

Question 29

More recent research examining older women's views about their dating lives reveals a trend toward changing gender roles and attitudes.

Question 30

People communicating through modern technological means also tend to let down their guard more quickly.

Question 31

In more collectivist cultures, such as India and China, people may have less control over whom they select as their mates, and they may not have the privilege of "dating" at all.

Question 32

Despite gender role expectations regarding hypersexuality in males, men are far less likely to hook up than women are.

Question 33

People with dismissing avoidant internal working models of attachment may be uncomfortable with intimacy, sharing feelings, or expressions of intense emotion.

Question 34

Evolutionary forces have very little influence on how we select our mates.

Question 35

Evolutionary psychologists believe there are universal human traits that potential mates find attractive in order to ensure they mate with the most physically fit and healthy person who might guarantee the continuation of their gene pool through healthy offspring.

Question 36

The second phase of chemical attraction, attraction proper, is characterized by increases in the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Question 37

Historically, most, if not all, mates were chosen based on the financial benefit, political gain, or social standing that person could bring to the entire family, and ultimately, on the ability to ______.

Question 38

Historically, with new rituals becoming entrenched, gender ______ also evolved.

Question 39

This is a process whereby people select each other as mates and decide to make a committed partnership with each other, such as marriage.

Question 40

People with this type of internal working models of attachment may be uncomfortable with intimacy, sharing feelings, or expressions of intense emotion.

Question 41

This model of attachment involves partners being on their best behavior in the beginning of a courtship but then becoming disappointed as time goes on.

Question 42

The second phase of chemical attraction, ______, is characterized by increases in the neurotransmitter dopamine. It also involves increases in norepinephrine (popularly known as adrenalin) and decreases in serotonin (the mood-stabilizing neurotransmitter).

Question 43

Once a couple reaches this phase of their relationship, internal working models are activated, directing and organizing discussions, problem-solving, disagreements, worries, and communication.

Question 44

______ attached people cope without asking others for help or even talking to loved ones about the attachment challenge.

Question 45

Besides the more biological factors of lust and attraction, many individual and personal factors, as well as larger social contexts, also influence whom we choose as our mates. The most obvious contextual influence is ______, or nearness.

Question 46

This states that we are drawn to those who are about as attractive as we are, share like personality traits, have obtained similar levels of education, share religious or cultural values, and have similar interests.

Question 47

Explain how the production of neurotransmitters and hormones influences and affects the stages of a relationship.

Question 48

What are the basic tenets of expectancy value theory? What evidence supports this theory of attraction?

Question 49

Discuss the effect that the mass production of automobiles had on sex and dating in the 20th century.

Question 50

What are some of the differences between western and non-western dating practices? How is globalization affecting dating practices in some more traditional countries?