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Course Introduction
This course explores the psychological, social, and cultural dynamics of intimate relationships, including romantic partnerships, friendships, and familial bonds. Students will examine theories of attraction, attachment, love, communication, conflict resolution, and the development and maintenance of intimacy across the lifespan. The curriculum incorporates current research findings and encourages critical analysis of factors such as gender, sexuality, cultural background, and societal expectations that influence how individuals form, sustain, and sometimes dissolve close relationships. Throughout the course, students will apply empirical knowledge to real-world scenarios, enhancing their understanding of healthy relationship functioning and the challenges that intimate partners may encounter.
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Intimate Relationships 2nd Edition by Thomas N. Bradbury
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Chapter 1: Why Study Intimate Relationships?
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Q1) 10.After dating for two years, Yayoi and her partner, Tom, recently became engaged. Yayoi is participating in a study where she is asked to describe what she believes are the defining features of love. Based on material presented in the text, what essential attributes would you expect Yayoi to describe?
Answer: Research has identified seven essential attributes of love. These are: 1) Desire (wanting to be united with the partner, physically and emotionally); 2) Idealization (believing the partner is unique and special); 3) Joy (experiencing very strong, positive emotions); 4) Preoccupation (thinking a lot about the partner and having little control over when these thoughts occur); 5) Proximity (taking steps to maintain or restore physical closeness or emotional contact with the partner); 6) Prioritizing (reordering priorities and goals, so that maintaining the relationship is given more importance than other interests and responsibilities); 7) Caring (experiencing and expressing feelings of empathy and compassion for the partner).
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Chapter 2: Tools of Relationship Science
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Q1) Why is it important to maintain the confidentiality of our research participants?
A) Revealing information about them to others could violate the principle of protecting from harm.
B) Revealing information about them to others could make our research findings invalid.
C) People will not volunteer in research studies unless we promise confidentiality.
D) Revealing information about them to others would violate the principle of respect for persons.
Answer: A
Q2) Andy decides to use a measure of how many times per week research participants talk to their partners as a measure of relationship closeness. According to the chapter on research methods, ÒclosenessÓ is ________.
A) an imaginary construct
B) the operationalization of a psychological construct
C) the predictor variable
D) a psychological construct
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Theoretical Frameworks
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Q1) Twelve-month-old Joshua enters an unfamiliar laboratory playroom with his mother. When she leaves, he gets distressed. When his mother hasn't returned after a few minutes, Joshua stops crying and starts playing listlessly in the far corner of the room. Joshua's behavior is an example of a:
A) hyperactivating strategy.
B) deactivating strategy.
C) denial strategy.
D) protest strategy.
Answer: B
Q2) Daniella believes that behavior is shaped and molded within relationships, and that rewarding and punishing interactions affect future behavior and judgments of relationship satisfaction. With which relationship theory is this most consistent?
A) social learning
B) social ecological
C) social exchange
D) interdependence
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Men and Women, Gay and Straight
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Q1) When it comes to describing intimacy, we can reasonably conclude that:
A) women and men define intimacy quite differently.
B) women equate intimacy with expressions of appreciation and men equate intimacy with sex.
C) men are as likely to mention sex as they are to mention feelings of love when describing intimacy.
D) women are as likely to mention physical contact as they are to mention expressing appreciation when describing intimacy.
Q2) Knowing the ________ of the partners involved is necessary in understanding intimate relationships.
A) sex
B) gender
C) sexual orientation
D) all of the above
Q3) 10.Cierra and Ashleigh (a lesbian couple) are friends with Donald and Janelle (a heterosexual couple). Based on current knowledge outlined in the textbook, in what ways would you expect Cierra and Ashleigh's relationship to differ from Donald and Janelle's relationship?
Q4) 6.Describe the advantages of holding an androgynous sex role identity.
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Chapter 5: Attraction and Mate Selection
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Q1) The chapter on attraction lists three reasons why we find people who are similar to us more attractive. These reasons are that people who are similar to us:
A) are easy to get along with, are validating, and are probably going to like us.
B) increase our confidence, are validating, and facilitate self-expansion.
C) are easy to get along with, facilitate self-expansion, and are probably going to like us.
D) are validating, increase our confidence, and share our vulnerabilities.
Q2) The process through which a committed relationship is formed is called:
A) hooking up.
B) mate selection.
C) behavioral synchrony.
D) the matching phenomenon.
Q3) Attraction is to ________ as mate selection is to ________.
A) individual processes; dyadic processes
B) dyadic processes; individual processes
C) unrequited love; romantic attraction
D) liking; love
Q4) 10.Explain how situations can affect romantic attraction.
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Chapter 6: Personality and Personal History
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Q1) Sociologist Paul Amato has studied how the well-being of adults is related to the state of their parents' marriages when the participants were children. What best represents the findings of that study?
A) If the parents' marriage ended in divorce, the level of discord had no additional effect on well-being.
B) If the parents had a lot of discord, divorce had no additional effect on well-being.
C) If the parents had little discord and divorced, or if the parents' marriage had a lot of discord but the couple remained married, the children had the poorest well-being as adults.
D) If the parents' marriage had a lot of discord and then ended in divorce, the children had the lowest well-being as adults.
Q2) 1.What is the Big Five model of personality?
Q3) 13.Explain how early caregiver interactions impact individual differences in attachment.
Q4) 14.Describe the dimensions of attachment anxiety and avoidance.
Q5) 3.Does personality affect relationship quality, or does relationship quality affect personality?
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Chapter 7: Communicating Closeness
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Q1) 12.Cassandra's co-workers celebrate her birthday by taking her to a spa for a manicure and pedicure instead of working in the afternoon. She tells her wife, Patricia, all about the outing. What might Patricia say or do that would represent the 1) active-constructive; 2) active-destructive; and 3) passive-destructive capitalization responses to Cassandra's disclosure?
Q2) 1.Describe the intimacy process model.
Q3) Visible support is to ________ as invisible support is to ________.
A) not helpful; helpful
B) known; unknown
C) practical; emotional
D) satisfied; dissatisfied
Q4) According to definitions of forgiveness given in the text, which of the following is required for a couple to experience forgiveness?
A) reconciliation with the transgressor
B) a promise from the offender not to re-offend
C) a decline in the partner's motivation for revenge against the transgressor
D) an increase in emotional distance from the offending partner
Q5) 8.How does the self-expansion model help us explain the deterioration of relationship satisfaction?
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Chapter 8: Managing Differences
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Q1) In intimate terrorism, the three phases of the cycle of violence are:
A) acute battering, plateau, and tension-building.
B) tension-building, acute battering, and contrition.
C) baseline, intense violence, and adoration.
D) emotional degradation, physical degradation, and remorse.
Q2) Cognitive editing occurs when a partner hears something ________ but responds in a ________ way.
A) positive; neutral or negative
B) positive; negative
C) negative; positive
D) negative; neutral or positive
Q3) In a videotaped discussion, a husband says, ÒI feel really uncomfortable whenever we discuss our sexual relationship.Ó How would you code the husband's statement?
A) self-disclosure
B) disagreement
C) positive solution
D) criticism
Q4) 10.Describe the phases of the cycle of violence.
Q5) 8.Describe gender differences in the demand/withdraw pattern.
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Chapter 9: Beliefs and Values
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Q1) ________ refers to the collected beliefs and values of a society.
A) Culture
B) Norms
C) Amae
D) Homogeneity
Q2) Luca believes intimate relationships are meant to be passionate, but he acknowledges that he and his partner will need work in developing this passion over time. This is best characterized as a ________ theory about relationships.
A) long-term bliss
B) storybook fantasy
C) friends/companions
D) utilitarian involvement
Q3) 2.Sprecher and Metts (1989) asked college students to rate how much they agreed with specific statements about the role of romance in relationships. Their analyses suggested that ideas about romantic love are composed of four separate beliefs. Describe these four beliefs, and explain how endorsing or not endorsing such beliefs is related to people's intimate relationships.
Q4) 9.Contrast perceptual and behavioral confirmation, and indicate how each can affect relationship experiences.
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Chapter 10: Understanding Each Other
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Q1) Thao is trying to decide whether to ask Sue out. What information processing bias will be most likely operating when he makes his decision?
A) enhancement bias
B) confirmation bias
C) justification bias
D) accuracy bias
Q2) Cesar says his wife is a flighty person, which is her greatest fault, and then he later says he loves her spontaneity. This is an example of:
A) compartmentalization.
B) integration.
C) refutation.
D) cognitive restructuring.
Q3) 4.Kia is very unhappy in her relationship with Denny. She describes Denny as being unreliable and mean, and she belittles his intelligence. What is most likely operating in her views of Denny? Why might Kia be processing information about Denny in ways that contribute to her unhappiness in the relationship?
Q4) 3.Compare the confirmation and enhancement biases.
Q5) 14.Define and explain the commitment calibration hypothesis.
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Chapter 11: Relationships in Context
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following is NOT a reason low-income couples experience more difficulties in maintaining enduring relationships?
A) They often have many personal challenges. For example, they tend to have less education than do individuals with higher incomes.
B) The contexts in which they live tend to be marked by greater social disorder.
C) They tend to have jobs that force them to work nonstandard hours.
D) They do not value marriage as an institution.
Q2) 12.You have recently been appointed to a task force charged with allocating federal funds to strengthen marriages. One of the task force members is arguing that marital education to strengthen values for low socioeconomic couples is the best use of the funds. How do you respond to the suggestion that lack of values is at the heart of marital breakdown?
Q3) 15.Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of social networks for intimate relationships.
Q4) 3.What is the fight-or-flight response?
Q5) 1.Compare the distal and proximal context, and provide an example of a stressor from each context.
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Chapter 12: Improving Relationships
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Q1) A therapist who asks a couple to start doing nice things for each other and to give each other time away from the kids and who works on communication skills is most likely practicing from a ________ perspective.
A) behavioral couples therapy
B) integrative behavioral couples therapy
C) cognitive-behavioral couples therapy
D) emotion-focused couples therapy
Q2) 7.Compare the explanation for relationship distress with the behavioral model and the emotion-focused model.
Q3) Which is an example of a primary emotion?
A) anger
B) hostility
C) frustration
D) shame
Q4) What is a main task of a behaviorally oriented therapist?
A) to determine the function of problematic behavior
B) to understand how past relationships affect current behavior
C) to help couples learn to accept each other's shortcomings
D) to change maladaptive attributions
Q5) 11.Describe the stage model used in emotion-focused couples therapy.
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Chapter 13: Relationships Across the Lifespan
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Q1) Cohabitation refers to:
A) two unrelated people sharing a household.
B) two unmarried people sharing a household.
C) two unmarried partners sharing a household.
D) multiple couples sharing a household.
Q2) ÒSibling rivalry is the result of competition for parental resources.Ó With which theory is this statement most consistent?
A) evolutionary theory
B) theory of mind
C) attachment theory
D) social learning theory
Q3) Habituation is to ________ as reactivity is to ________.
A) sensitization; desensitization
B) primary appraisal; secondary appraisal
C) desensitization; sensitization
D) secondary appraisal; primary appraisal
Q4) 12.Nearly 80 percent of people who have been divorced remarry, generally fairly quickly. Explain why remarriages are significantly more likely to dissolve than are first marriages.
Q5) 4.Describe the defining features of friendships.
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