Deck 7: Courtship,intimacy,and Partnering

Question 1

Talin is getting married in his native India in a few days.He has not met his wife,but is sure that she will be a good wife,and they will live a happy life.He believes they will eventually find love.What belief precedes this attitude toward marriage?

A)He is powerless in his matriarchy society.
B)Parents know best.
C)Love comes before commitment.
D)Any woman is better than none.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Morgan and Oscar are considering marriage,but think they should live together first as a test.Which of the following is the best advice for them?

A)Live together for at least one year because that will increase marriage satisfaction.
B)Live together,but maintain financial independence and freedom,so you don't tire of each other.
C)Live together for two years because the chance of divorce will be half.
D)Live together if you wish,but it doesn't appear to be a good test because most cohabiting couples do not marry.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What type of mate selection process is generally found in the United States?

A)Kinship rules
B)Heterogeneous
C)Formally free
D)Arranged

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which type of love is playful and carefree; lovers aren't possessive,and are more about fun and games than about commitment?

A)Storge
B)Ludus
C)Agape
D)Eros

Question 5

Mary and Jeff have been friends since high school and slowly their relationship has developed into a comfortable love and compatibility.Which style of love to Mary and Jeff represent?

A)Eros
B)Pragma
C)Ludus
D)Storge

Question 6

In which culture would you find the custom of bride wealth?

A)Kenya
B)Spain
C)The Netherlands
D)The United States

Question 7

Compared to children with two married parents in the household,how do children fare in a cohabiting household,generally speaking?

A)They generally are better off than children in married households.
B)The majority have a wide variety of issues because of conflict and poverty.
C)Children in cohabiting households get more quality time with fathers.
D)Generally,children in cohabiting households receive less support.

Question 8

According to the world map,what region of the world has the harshest sexual orientation laws?

A)South America
B)Eastern Europe
C)Middle East
D)South Africa

Question 9

Traditionally,men have been allowed far more permissiveness in sexual behavior than have women,and this is known as

A)cloaked discrimination.
B)the double standard.
C)gender stereotyping.
D)heterogeny.

Question 10

The belief that girls shouldn't plan to have sex because it makes them look promiscuous is a

A)sexual script.
B)myth.
C)stereotype.
D)media distortion.

Question 11

Relationships in which the partners are significantly different from one another on some important characteristic,such as age or level of education are called

A)homogeneous relationships.
B)normative relationships.
C)heterogeneous relationships.
D)nonnormative relationships.

Question 12

Biochemical research on love

A)is well-developed and began in the 1930s.
B)shows that love is a social phenomenon and has very little,if any basis in biology.
C)shows that different parts of the brain are used in different loving situations.
D)indicates that women fall in love more quickly than do men.

Question 13

Which is the most effective fact to support the statement,People are born gay?

A)Individuals are either exclusively homosexual or exclusively heterosexual.
B)A gene has been found to be the determining factor in homosexual behavior.
C)No situational factors play a role in homosexual behavior.
D)Biological siblings are more likely to both be gay than adopted siblings.

Question 14

With respect to dating,

A)most people meet through friends,at work,or at school.
B)it is more formal today than in was a generation ago.
C)high school students today are more likely to date than they were in 2000.
D)most gendered norms surrounding dating have been eliminated today.

Question 15

Which of the following groups of people is most likely to identify as LGBT?

A)Hispanic men who have high income and are not religious
B)White men who were born in the 1960s who have high incomes
C)Hispanic women who have low incomes and are younger
D)Black women who were born in the 1960s and are moderately religious

Question 16

How do men and women love differently?

A)Men are more cautious and slower to fall in love.
B)Men show love with actions rather than words or romance.
C)Single women are more likely to be looking for a partner.
D)Women are more ludic and men lean toward pragma.

Question 17

In what context is a woman most likely to have an orgasm?

A)intercourse only
B)intercourse and manual stimulation
C)intercourse and oral stimulation
D)manual and oral stimulation

Question 18

Miranda and Kim met in college when they were roommates.Miranda's parents fell in love during college and have been married 30 years.Kim's parents had an arranged marriage and have been married for 30 years.Which of the following can be predicted?

A)Miranda will have unrealistic expectations of love and marriage.
B)Kim will expect passionate love before she will commit to marriage.
C)Miranda will be unhappy and feel trapped in the relationship with her husband.
D)Kim will expect love to develop slowly after commitment.

Question 19

Olivia has been dating Toby for about a year.He keeps track of Olivia's activities and does not let her shop alone because he doesn't want her talking to other men.He is very concerned that she will find someone else and leave him.Toby style of love is

A)mania.
B)agape.
C)pragma.
D)storge.

Question 20

Professor Kua has been researching love and measuring levels of ________,which are chemicals that Ortigue (2010)found were released when a person falls in love.

A)dopamine,adrenaline,vasopressin,and oxytocin
B)norepinephrine,serotonin,acetylcholine,and nitric oxide
C)endorphines,nitric oxide,serotonin,and oxytocin
D)Vasopressin,oxytocin,acetylcholine,and endorphines

Question 21

Which accurate argument most effectively challenges the statement,AIDS is a disease of gay men.

A)In the United States,most HIV patients are women who are drug users.
B)In Africa,over 50 percent of HIV victims are heterosexual women and girls.
C)In Africa,over 60 percent of AIDS patients are heterosexual males.
D)In the United States,lesbians have the highest rate of AIDS.

Question 22

_________ is the most common STI,but ________ is the most commonly reported STI.

A)Genital HPV; Chlamydia
B)HIV; Genital HPV
C)Chlamydia; Genital HPV
D)Syphilis; HIV

Question 23

A recent Gallup Poll based on a large and representative sample estimates that _________ percent of LGBT Americans age 18 and over are either legally married or living with their partner.

A)3
B)9
C)17
D)28

Question 24

Which of the following statements about same-sex commitment and cohabitation is TRUE?

A)There is a lot of research about same-sex couples that was begun in the 1960s.
B)There are very few differences between same-sex couples and heterosexual couples,and most of these differences are very small.
C)Gay men and lesbians reported receiving more support from family members than married couples.
D)There are large differences between relationships held by gay men and those held by lesbians.

Question 25

Which of the following statements about HIV/AIDS is TRUE?

A)The HIV virus was first discovered in an island off the coast of Argentina in the 1970s.
B)Although men are more likely to have HIV/AIDS in the United States,in Africa,it is women who are most likely to have HIV/AIDS.
C)People no longer die of AIDS,but they can still contract HIV.
D)Almost 14 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV/AIDS,and roughly,20,000 new cases occur in a year.