Intimate Relationships
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This course explores the psychological and social foundations of intimate relationships, including their formation, development, maintenance, and dissolution. Students will examine topics such as attraction, love, communication, conflict resolution, and the impact of cultural and societal influences on romantic and close interpersonal relationships. The course integrates theories and empirical research from psychology, sociology, and human development, offering students insight into the factors that contribute to healthy and satisfying partnerships, as well as challenges that may arise within them.
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Choices in Relationships An Introduction to Marriage and the Family 11th Edition by David Knox
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Chapter 1: Choices in Relationships: an Introduction
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Q1) According to the text, if you don't make a decision to be faithful to your partner:
A)you will become an antagonist by default
B)you have made a decision to be vulnerable to cheating
C)your partner will not reciprocate your promise of fidelity
D)your lack of moral values will reflect negatively on you
Answer: B
Q2) How can society increase governmental control over the relationships of adults?
A)by encouraging them to marry
B)by decreasing literacy programs
C)by cutting funding for community colleges
D)by reducing the number of Pell grants
Answer: A
Q3) Your coworkers in a job context are an example of a:
A)primary group
B)secondary institution
C)peer role set
D)secondary group
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Gender
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Q1) Gender dysphoria refers to which of the following?
A)a condition in which one's gender identity does not match one's biological sex
B)a condition in which a person has both male and female genitals
C)a condition in which a person exaggerates his or her gender characteristics
D)a condition in which a person exhibits both feminine and masculine personality traits
Answer: A
Q2) Parents in some African countries encourage female genital cutting of their daughters because they feel it increases the chance that their daughters will find a man who will marry them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Increasingly, women are more likely to graduate from college than men.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Love
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Q1) What might be the effect of disclosing your tastes and interests to your partner?
A)The relationship satisfaction might increase.
B)The relationship satisfaction might decrease.
C)There is no effect.
D)It depends on the sexual orientation of the partners.
Answer: B
Q2) The hormone oxytocin has been referred to as the:
A)"jealousy chemical" because of its association with jealous feelings
B)"cuddle chemical" because of its significance in bonding
C)"erotic chemical" because of its high level in the bloodstream of before and after sex
D)"divorce chemical" because of its association with not being committed
Answer: B
Q3) The psychological factor associated with predicting that one will fall in love is the principle of reciprocal liking.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Communication
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Q1) Howard Markman and his colleagues have been studying 150 couples at yearly intervals to determine those factors most responsible for marital success. They found that
____ is the single biggest predictor of marital success over time.
A)family background
B)religious faith
C)communication skills/constructive arguing
D)having few differences
Q2) Explain how chronic problems are associated with mental health.
Q3) According to Markman et al. (2010), how many negatives translate into a "bad week"?
A)one
B)somewhere between five and ten
C)over 15
D)if there are plenty of positives, the spouses don't notice the negatives
Q4) What percent of undergraduates will contract an STI during college?
A)5%
B)25%
C)50%
D)75%
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Chapter 5: Singlehood, Hanging Out, Hooking Up, and Cohabitation
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Q1) Elise does not want to live together and Bob does. What are they most likely to do?
A)Break up within six months if there is no resolution.
B)There is no research to answer this question.
C)Live together.
D)Stop living together.
Q2) About how many households in the U.S. consist of couples who live together?
A)600,0000
B)6 million
C)26 million
D)66 million
Q3) Which of the following are categories of lying on the Internet?
A)assets (person would say he or she owned a house at the beach)
B)relationship goals (person would say he or she wanted to get married)
C)personal attributes (person would say he or she was religious)
D)all of these choices
Q4) What are the most frequent sexual behaviors of those who "hook up"?
Q5) "Here and now" is the most frequent type of cohabitation relationship.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Selecting a Partner
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Q1) Which of the following is not a factor predictive of divorce?
A)numerous significant differences
B)dating twelve months or less
C)lacking parental approval
D)homogamy of values/goals
Q2) What percent of undergraduates want a traditional partner, one who views marriage as a relationship where the husband is the provider and the wife takes care of the family?
A)less than five percent
B)less than ten percent
C)about a third
D)over half
Q3) Who is the least likely to draw up a prenuptial agreement?
A)individuals in first marriages
B)divorced individuals who plan a remarriage
C)widowed individuals who plan a remarriage
D)couples who are living together who have been married before
Q4) How does having an active prayer life affect one's choice of a spouse?
Q5) Identify eight personality characteristics predictive of divorce.
Q6) Explain and criticize the sociobiological theory of mate selection.
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Chapter 7: Marriage Relationships
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Q1) In our society, there is a marriage custom that dictates that the bride wear something old, new, borrowed, and blue. The "borrowed" represents which of the following?
A)the friendship of others that support the marriage
B)the potential for loss of income in today's economy
C)the volatility of the marriage
D)something from a happily married woman
Q2) What is the primary way military wives cope with their husbands' deployment?
A)becoming involved in volunteer organizations on base
B)alcohol
C)talking with other military wives whose husbands had been deployed
D)having an affair
Q3) In a study of 1001 married adults, the largest percent missed what about singlehood?
A)not being able to live by their own rules
B)having more money
C)the irresponsibility of singlehood
D)the option of having sex with different people
Q4) How does marriage to a man in the military affect the career opportunities of the wife?
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Chapter 8: Same-Sex Couples and Families
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Q1) According to Jenkins et al., which is true?
A)Blacks are more homophobic than whites.
B)Whites are more homophobic than blacks.
C)There are no significant differences between blacks and whites regarding homophobia.
D)Only black females are more homophobic than white females.
Q2) Which of the following groups is most often a victim of violent hate crimes?
A)homosexuals
B)African-Americans
C)Asians
D)pedophiles
Q3) Children whose parents are gay:
A)are not more likely than children with straight parents to feel that they are gay
B)are more likely than children with straight parents to feel that they are gay
C)are less likely than children with straight parents to feel that they are gay
D)are not concerned about whether or not they feel they are gay
Q4) Compare the political implications of the terms 'sexual preference' and 'sexual orientation.'
Q5) Why is it difficult to identify the prevalence of the gay population?
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Chapter 9: Sexuality in Relationships
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Q1) Discuss the sexual behavior of persons who have signed the "True Love Waits" pledge.
Q2) Identify various considerations in deciding to have intercourse with a new sexual partner.
Q3) Jill is a Baptist who took the "virginity pledge" reflecting her absolutist sexual values. Compared to those who did not take the pledge, which of the following is true?
A)She is less likely to delay having intercourse.
B)She is less likely to marry earlier.
C)She is more likely to use oral/anal sex as a substitute for vaginal sex.
D)She is more likely to use a condom when she does have intercourse.
Q4) In a study of female Canadian youth and oral sex, all of the following are true except that:
A)the most recent oral sex experience was in a committed relationship
B)the most recent oral sex experience was positive
C)oral sex with boys they did not love was a mostly negative experience
D)the frequency of oral sex was almost twice that of intercourse
Q5) Undergraduates associate "lust" as the top word for "sex":
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Planning for Children
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Q1) Regarding infertility, what percent of the time is something wrong with both partners?
Q2) Teen mothers have poorer general health, are more depressed, and have lower selfesteem than women who did not have a child as a teen, who attended college, and who are employed full-time. What is a benefit of being a teen mother?
A)making higher grades
B)having a higher income
C)drinking less alcohol
D)having a stable boyfriend
Q3) Molly previously conceived but is currently unable to do so even though she has had regular sexual relations for the past twelve months. Her situation is known as:
A)primary infertility
B)pregnancy wastage
C)secondary infertility
D)postconception syndrome
Q4) Twenty percent of parents in the U.S. adopt children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Parenting
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Q1) Compare four parenting styles using demandingness and responsiveness as factors.
Q2) Compare baby blues and postpartum depression.
Q3) A child rearing approach that is both warm and controlling (authoritative) has a positive outcome for children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is associated with low drug use/sexual activity of teens?
A)monitoring where children are, who they are with, etc.
B)trusting children and telling them that you aren't going to be "watching them"
C)trusting children but not telling them that you will take a hands off approach
D)enrolling the children in weekly "teen talk" group therapy sessions
Q5) Having regular meals together is associated with all of the following except:
A)less substance abuse
B)less running away for females
C)a closer relationship with the mother but not with the father
D)less physical violence for males
Q6) College males have more traditional views of motherhood than college females.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Work and Family Life
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Q1) Which is the least likely pattern?
A)HIS/HER career
B)HER/his career
C)HIS/her career
D)THEIR careers
Q2) According to your text, money is a central issue in relationships because it is about:
A)survival
B)the core of communication
C)power and control
D)nurturing
Q3) Undergraduates who took an online money management class:
A)continued to spend money with wild abandonment
B)showed significant improvement in their spending behavior and reduction of stress
C)continued to dig into savings rather than increase income
D)showed no stress since they "didn't care" about money issues
Q4) How concerned (about increased divorce risk) should a husband with an unhappy wife
be if she tells him she is taking a new job and will earn a lot of money?
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Chapter 13: Violence and Abuse in Relationships
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Q1) Rophypnol is known as a fertility drug with the side effect of multiple births.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify the most frequent type of family abuse.
Q3) What is the scenario of the person most likely to stay in an abusive relationship? To leave an abusive relationship?
Q4) A double standard is operative in the perception of the gender of the person engaging in sexual coercion. Whereas men are viewed as aggressive, women are viewed as:
A)meek
B)victims
C)passive
D)promiscuous
Q5) Give examples of spiritual abuse.
Q6) According to Straus, the effect of corporal punishment on children is to:
A)increase the chance of the child being violent in his or her own life
B)decrease the frequency of antisocial behavior
C)turn the child into an alcoholic
D)show the child that "spare the rod and spoil the child" works
Q7) What is the typical profile of the person who is emotionally abused?
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Chapter 14: Stress and Crisis in Relationships
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Q1) The benefits of exercise include all but:
A)a lower suicide rate
B)an improved sense of well being
C)cognitive benefits
D)the ability to function in social networking groups
Q2) Discuss strategies that are and are not helpful in responding to family crisis events.
Q3) Most men who have sex with prostitutes are married. The reason for this is that:
A)they want companionship
B)they have more money than single males
C)have lost their way morally
D)they have sexual fetishes their wives will not satisfy
Q4) What, as identified in your text, is a positive coping mechanism for anxiety?
A)humor
B)sitting quietly
C)drawing
D)talking on the phone
Q5) Compare men and women with regard to romantic involvement in an extramarital affair.
Q6) Discuss how marriage therapy might make a couple worse.
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Chapter 15: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) From a sociological perspective, the fact that from 1639 to 1760, there was an average of only one divorce per year in Massachusetts among the Puritans illustrates that:
A)whether spouses divorce is influenced by the society in which they live
B)U.S.society has lost its moral way
C)the concept of smarter marriages has replaced the idea of permanence in marriage
D)marriages were happier and family life had meaning in Puritan New England
Q2) What percent of children live with single mothers/single fathers?
A)23% / 3%
B)15% / 22%
C)30% / 10%
D)40% / 14%
Q3) Which group is most likely to give more money to their children?
A)remarried mothers
B)remarried fathers
C)single divorced mothers
D)married or single fathers
Q4) What are positives and negatives of joint custody?
Q5) Discuss societal attempts to prevent divorce.
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Chapter 16: Relationships in the Later Years
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Q1) The greatest fear of the elderly is not the fear of death but:
A)the sadness over leaving one's children behind
B)the guilt over leaving a partner behind who will be lonely and debt ridden
C)the dying process
D)the fear of not knowing what happens after death
Q2) We may be ____ away from significant breakthroughs in research to allow a person to live hundreds of years longer.
A)a couple of years
B)20 to 30 years
C)one to two hundred years
D)about five years
Q3) ____ is a federal insurance program for ____-term acute hospital care.
A)Medicare; long
B)Medicare; short
C)Medicaid; long
D)Medicaid; short
Q4) Compare the effects of aging on the sexuality of women and men.
Q5) Discuss the association between physical fitness and a quality of life among the elderly.
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Q6) Discuss the conditions under which Oregon allows physician-assisted suicide.
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