Exam 13: Relationships Across the Lifespan

Research supports the idea that older couples become emotional ÒexpertsÓ who are able to choose strategies that promote positive feelings in their relationships, ________ when they are talking about difficult problems. In that situation, older couples approach the discussions ________ younger couples do.

Tara and Aidan recently divorced after 9 years of marriage. What reason are they most likely to give for the divorce?

Which of the following accurately describes how adolescents think about intimate relationships?

Research on how adults' relationships affect children shows that:

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.

What does research show about retirement?

Although intimate relationships have existed over the past 10,000 years, their meaning and structure have developed and changed over time. What best characterizes the nature of intimate relationships throughout most of human history?

Which of the following is a defining feature of friendships?

11.You attend your partner's family reunion, where you meet a branch of the family for the first time. Zuzana and Eric have been living together 29 years (they never married) and have two children, ages 28 and 23. Their older daughter, Rosalind, and her fiancŽ recently moved in together and plan to get married in the next couple of years. Their younger daughter, Fiamma, moved in with her boyfriend last weekÑthey thought it was silly to pay rent in two places when they spend most of their time together anyway. In terms of the groups of cohabiting couples described in your textbook, what types are Zuzana and Eric, Rosalind and her fiancŽ, and Fiamma and her boyfriend?

1.You have been asked to take part in a radio program about how parental relationships affect children. One of the other participants claims, ÒWhen parents argue, it doesn't matter whether they hide it from their children or not. Kids don't understand the complexity of adults' emotions anyway.Ó How do you respond?

Primary appraisal involves:

4.Describe the defining features of friendships.

In sociometric testing, children who are neither liked nor disliked by their peers are labeled as:

Which of the following statements about cohabitation is FALSE?

8.You are out to lunch with some friends, and the conversation turns to the topic of sexual activity in adolescence. Your friends bemoan the Òanything goesÓ attitude toward sex that teenagers in high school seem to have these days. Having taken this course, how do you respond?

Eight-year-old Bianca is playing in her room when she hears her parents' raised voices. She stops playing, creeps to her door, and listens carefully. Bianca hears that her parents are arguing again about what to cook for supper. She knows she is such a picky eater, so she decides that this argument must be her fault and vows not to complain about whatever is for supper that night. Bianca has just engaged in:

When elementary schoolchildren are asked to describe the different relationships in their lives, they describe the most conflict in their relationships with:

Habituation is to ________ as reactivity is to ________.

How is gender related to children's friendships?

Couples who cohabit before marriage report lower marital satisfaction and a higher risk of divorce than those who get married without living together first. This is partly due to a: