Deck 5: Intimacy: Developing and Experiencing Affectionate Bonds

Question 1

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. The ________ includes the couple's social network, including each partner's family, peer relationships, neighborhood, and the community in which the couple lives.

A) sociocultural context
B) personal context
C) group context
D) relational context

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A(n) ________ is an intimate type that appears to be intimate on the surface, but they lack depth. Because of the lack of depth, these relationships may never progress beyond friendship.

A) isolate
B) non-intimate
C) preintimate
D) pseudointimate

Answer 2

D

Question 3

One of Weiss' five essential psychological needs, this need is best met when we have someone in our life to take care of-and to take care of us.

A) nature
B) intimacy
C) nurture
D) social integration

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In the 1950's psychologist Erik Erikson provided a lifespan approach for ________ development, which is the social and emotional development of an individual.

A) socioeconomic
B) psychosomatic
C) psychosocial
D) psychological

Question 5

Marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. Which of the following is NOT one of the eight?

A) social expressiveness
B) sexuality
C) identity
D) expressiveness

Question 6

Autonomy refers to what?

A) a person's willingness to submit to authority
B) person's sense of purpose or resourcefulness
C) becoming a self-governing person
D) a person's resistance to authority

Question 7

Marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. This component speaks to how each partner relates to each other, work together, and play together.

A) cohesion
B) conflict resolution
C) expressiveness
D) compatibility

Question 8

________ are capable of intimacy, and may even desire it, but they lack the ability to make the commitment necessary to sustain long-term relationships.

A) Preintimates
B) Intimates
C) Pseudointimates
D) Isolates

Question 9

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. The ________ refers to characteristics of the relationship and how the couples define it. Factors such as companionship, trust, level of commitment, each partner's intimacy needs, and the presence of/type of conflict are all part of this context.

A) relational context
B) personal context
C) group context
D) immediate context

Question 10

This hypothesis maintains that the idea that negative stereotypes (prejudices) about other groups exist because of the lack of contact and interaction between racial groups.

A) racial hypothesis
B) interaction hypothesis
C) contact hypothesis
D) intercultural hypothesis

Question 11

One of Weiss' five essential psychological needs, ________ is a basic, universal psychological need that drives us to share our innermost feelings with another or others.

A) intimacy
B) social integration
C) assistance
D) reassurance

Question 12

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. At the very center, the ________ refers to factors that influence the couple's interaction, such as the physical setting (is it quiet, relatively free of interruptions, private?), the couples' mood during the intimate interaction, and the couple's reason for talking.

A) group context
B) relational context
C) personal context
D) immediate context

Question 13

________ are those in which an individual has any number of casual relationships; however, these relationships are devoid of depth and commitment.

A) Isolated relationships
B) Stereotyped relationships
C) Pseudointimate relationships
D) Preintimate relationships

Question 14

Marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. This component addresses how couples manage the inevitable conflict that occurs within the relationship, and how they resolve differences of opinion.

A) conflict resolution
B) affection
C) compatibility
D) cohesion

Question 15

Marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. The degree to which partners allow each other to access their most personal thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and the degree to which they allow themselves to share the most private parts of their lives are key elements of what component?

A) expressiveness
B) autonomy
C) sexuality
D) affection

Question 16

Friendships between opposite-sex peers are known as _____.

A) intersex friendships
B) cross-sex friendships
C) hetero-friendships
D) romantic friendships

Question 17

________ is at the core of all love relationships, and it is characterized by feelings that promote a sense of closeness, bonding with one another, and connection.

A) Emotional query
B) Sensory attachment
C) Emotional attachment
D) Emotional interest

Question 18

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. The ________ is the over-arching umbrella that contains such factors as the norms, beliefs, and ideals of the culture and subcultures in which couples live and relate.

A) sociocultural context
B) personal context
C) relational context
D) immediate context

Question 19

According to Prager, there are five different levels of intimacy contexts. The ________ includes factors specific to each member of the couple, such as personality traits, attitudes and beliefs about the overall status of the relationship; emotional reactions to intimacy; willingness to self-disclose; and each partner's intimacy needs, goals, and motives.

A) immediate context
B) personal context
C) relational context
D) sociocultural context

Question 20

Erikson's formulation displaying the life-long process of social and emotional development is known as what?

A) cradle-to-grave formula
B) psychosocial lifechart
C) six degrees of separation
D) eight stages of man

Question 21

In this, one of Dunphy's earlier stages of friendship development, the support of friends is often replaced by an intimate partner with whom young adults now share and disclose. Because of this, friendship groups become more loosely associated.

A) pre-crowd stages
B) the fully developed crowd
C) crowd disintegration
D) the crowd in transition

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT a key point of Huebner's discussion of psychosocial changes during puberty?

A) The adolescent establishes industry.
B) The adolescent establishes an identity.
C) The adolescent begins the process of individuation.
D) The adolescent develops autonomy.

Question 23

According to marriage therapist Edward Waring, it is important that each partner is able to communicate their sexual needs, wants, and desires, but it is not important that each partner's sexual needs, wants, and desires are fulfilled by the marriage.

Question 24

According to Waring, maintaining autonomy from one's family of origin is important in sustaining intimacy with a partner.

Question 25

One of Dunphy's friendship-development stages, this stage is marked by isolated same-sex peer groups called cliques, or small groups of four to nine members. Spontaneous, shared activities provide the opportunity to relate personally.

A) pre-crowd stage
B) the fully developed crowd
C) crowd disintegration
D) the beginning of crowd

Question 26

Erikson's eight stages of man were formulated to put forth the notion that our social and emotional development is a temporary process.

Question 27

According to Prager, couples experience intimacy and intimate relating in uniform ways.

Question 28

Developing intimacy is a(n) ________, as it is dynamic and ever-changing.

A) event
B) process
C) project
D) mandate

Question 29

One of Dunphy's earlier stages of friendship development, this stage is comprised entirely of opposite-sex cliques; no longer are the same-sex friendship affiliations as dominant as they were throughout elementary school and the early years of junior high. Groups exist only long enough in order for its members to learn or to be socialized into those gender-role characteristics needed for adult relationships.

A) the fully developed crowd
B) crowd disintegration
C) the crowd in transition
D) pre-crowd stage

Question 30

Individuals experiencing this form of intimacy fear may ask, "What if we end up having sex and he/she doesn't really love me? What if he/she disapproves of my body?"

A) fear of being "found out"
B) fear of rejection
C) fear of sex
D) fear of failure

Question 31

According to marriage therapist Edward Waring, how partners express affection and show feelings of emotional closeness is an important aspect of intimacy and impacts the degree to which partners self-disclose.

Question 32

Some sociologists and anthropologists believe that intimacy is the need for affiliation, or the need to have relationships in our lives, and that this is a universal, innate drive.

Question 33

Individuals experiencing this form of intimacy fear may ask, "Is it worth subjecting myself to hurt and emotional pain?"

A) fear of being vulnerable
B) fear of failure
C) fear of abandonment
D) fear to take risk

Question 34

During the end of junior high (8th or 9th grade) and throughout high school, peer groups are seen as in transition. During this time, smaller cliques are formed within the larger crowd. Which of Dunphy's friendship development stages does this describe?

A) the fully developed crowd
B) crowd disintegration
C) pre-crowd stage
D) the crowd in transition

Question 35

According to marriage therapist Edward Waring, maintaining partners' individual identities is important in order for both partners to be self-confident and have a high level of self-esteem.

Question 36

In the sociocultural context of intimacy, we see that the ways in which people intimately relate to one another changes from culture to culture.

Question 37

Some researchers have found spirituality and shared religious faith to be the foundation to all other components of intimacy.

Question 38

Intimacy is not a universal human need.

Question 39

________ suggests that patterns of relational functioning (including intimacy) are passed down from generation to generation.

A) Interfamily Generational Theory
B) Family Intimacy Theory
C) Intergenerational Family Theory
D) Generational Functioning Theory

Question 40

Still same-sex in nature, peer groups toward the end of sixth grade/beginning of seventh grade begin to shift to crowds, which consist of ten or more members. Crowd activities such as after-school dances and sporting events provide pre-adolescents the chance to "practice" interacting with the opposite sex. Which of Dunphy's stages of friendship development does this describe?

A) pre-crowd stage
B) crowd disintegration
C) the beginning of crowd
D) the crowd in transition

Question 41

Prager lists five different levels of intimacy contexts. What are they?

Question 42

How does the text define "intimacy"? To what does "intimacy" refer in a discussion of personal relationships?

Question 43

The ________ of ________ is often a primary barrier to establishing a relational environment that allows couples to share their vulnerabilities, a wide range of feelings, and their hurts and fears.

Question 44

According to adolescent intimacy researcher Kim Openshaw (1999), the development of intimacy revolves around the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that occur through early childhood.

Question 45

Explain the basic premise of the intergenerational family theory.

Question 46

The text lists three key points from Angela Huebner's discussion of psychosocial changes during puberty. What are they?

Question 47

The fundamental developmental task of infancy and toddlerhood is learning to trust or mistrust our primary caregivers.

Question 48

Developing intimacy is a process. Explain.

Question 49

The fundamental developmental task of infancy and toddlerhood is learning to trust or mistrust our primary caregivers. Explain.

Question 50

Females emphasize more strongly mutual understanding, security, and mutual exploration of interests than do males.

Question 51

With regards to intimacy barriers, researchers have found that the ________ and the family's ________ to be essential components in establishing intimacy.

Question 52

Orlofsky and his colleagues identified five intimacy statuses, one of which is the "isolate." Describe this status.

Question 53

Females emphasize activity and achievement in their group friendships; they show less interest in reciprocity/mutuality and support/caring than boys do.

Question 54

The capacity for intimacy is acquired from the moment of birth.

Question 55

The text lists three key points from Angela Huebner's discussion of psychosocial changes during puberty, one of which is "establishing autonomy." Explain this element.

Question 56

Orlofsky and his colleagues identified five intimacy statuses, one of which is the "intimate." Describe this status.

Question 57

Other intimacy researchers expanded the intimacy statuses developed by Orlofsky et al. to include the merger status. Describe this status.

Question 58

Influential psychologist Erik Erikson formulated the "Eight Stages of Man" developmental theory. Name five of the eight stages outlined by Erikson, including the ages distinct to each stage.

Question 59

The text lists eleven forms of intimacy fear. Name five.

Question 60

Why is intimacy experienced differently from relationship to relationship? What factors lead to this?

Question 61

According to Erikson, individuation is a key process in an adolescent's identity formation. What is "individuation"? How does individuation affect intimacy? What is its outcome?

Question 62

We can think of intimacy as a continuum; at the one end is total isolation and at the other end there exists total enmeshment. Neither extreme is healthy. Explain this continuum using your own examples.

Question 63

Sociologist Robert Weiss' discussion of sociability (or friendliness) suggests that when people form close interpersonal relationships, five essential psychological needs are met that cannot be met in other forms of impersonal human contact. List and describe them.

Question 64

How do male friendships differ from female friendships?

Question 65

From his research of intimacy among married couples, marriage therapist Edward Waring describes eight components that comprise intimacy. List and describe four.