Question 1

Mark has an exchange orientation toward relationships.Which of the following is probably true of Mark's relationship with his girlfriend Jin?

Accepted Answer

A)  He gives freely to Jin depending on what she needs. 
B)  He doesn't keep track of how much he and Jin put into the relationship. 
C)  He's unlikely to hold a grudge if Jin forgets his birthday. 
D)  He gets upset when he perceives that Jin is getting a better deal than he is from the relationship. 
A)  He gives freely to Jin depending on what she needs. 
B)  He doesn't keep track of how much he and Jin put into the relationship. 
C)  He's unlikely to hold a grudge if Jin forgets his birthday. 
D)  He gets upset when he perceives that Jin is getting a better deal than he is from the relationship.

Question 2

The fact that there are strict taboos against premarital sex in Egypt,whereas everyone has multiple sex partners before marriage on the Pacific Island of Mangaia,demonstrates

Accepted Answer

A)  the influence of cultural norms on expressions of sexuality. 
B)  that people in Egypt have relatively lower sex drives. 
C)  the influence of genetic factors on expressions of sexuality. 
D)  all of the above 
A)  the influence of cultural norms on expressions of sexuality. 
B)  that people in Egypt have relatively lower sex drives. 
C)  the influence of genetic factors on expressions of sexuality. 
D)  all of the above

Question 3

Which of the statements about unrequited love is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  People who experience unrequited love go through the three-stage sequence of protest, despair and detachment. 
B)  Almost everyone has had a strong experience of unrequited love. 
C)  People on both sides of an unrequited love situation later report that the experience was strongly negative. 
D)  People who experience unrequited love often report a loss of self-esteem. 
A)  People who experience unrequited love go through the three-stage sequence of protest, despair and detachment. 
B)  Almost everyone has had a strong experience of unrequited love. 
C)  People on both sides of an unrequited love situation later report that the experience was strongly negative. 
D)  People who experience unrequited love often report a loss of self-esteem.

Question 4

Which of the following is FALSE regarding the relationships of individuals with an anxious/ambivalent attachment style?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their relationships have lots of highs and lows. 
B)  Their relationships have the tendency to be "obsessive." 
C)  They tend to be preoccupied with how their relationship partner views them. 
D)  They tend to stay in relationships for a long time. 
A)  Their relationships have lots of highs and lows. 
B)  Their relationships have the tendency to be "obsessive." 
C)  They tend to be preoccupied with how their relationship partner views them. 
D)  They tend to stay in relationships for a long time.

Question 5

In the Lydon et al (1999)study,when an attractive and available person expressed romantic interest to college-age individuals,

Accepted Answer

A)  men, but not women, became more attracted to the person. 
B)  women, but not men, became more attracted to the person. 
C)  less committed individuals became more attracted to the person, but more committed individuals became less attracted to the person. 
D)  more committed individuals became more attracted to the person, but less committed individuals became less attracted to the person. 
A)  men, but not women, became more attracted to the person. 
B)  women, but not men, became more attracted to the person. 
C)  less committed individuals became more attracted to the person, but more committed individuals became less attracted to the person. 
D)  more committed individuals became more attracted to the person, but less committed individuals became less attracted to the person.

Question 6

Imagine that a good friend asks you for advice concerning how to improve communication in her marriage.Describe four research-based recommendations you would give to her.

Accepted Answer

Students should discuss four of the foll

Question 7

Men's tendency to overperceive a woman's sexual interest in men is adaptive because it

Accepted Answer

A)  evolved before the women's liberation movement protested against sexual objectification. 
B)  maximized the opportunities to have sex and thus pass on their genes. 
C)  prevented men from having sex with less desirable women. 
D)  maximized women's opportunities to mate with men who possessed the best genes. 
A)  evolved before the women's liberation movement protested against sexual objectification. 
B)  maximized the opportunities to have sex and thus pass on their genes. 
C)  prevented men from having sex with less desirable women. 
D)  maximized women's opportunities to mate with men who possessed the best genes.

Question 8

The most central component of companionate love is sexual attraction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

A disorder that involves a delusion that one is loved by another,even in the face of disconfirming evidence,is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  erotophobia. 
B)  erotophilia. 
C)  erotomania. 
D)  schizophilia. 
A)  erotophobia. 
B)  erotophilia. 
C)  erotomania. 
D)  schizophilia.

Question 10

What is the explanation that your textbook gives for why men focus on women's age and physical attractiveness instead of their status and resources?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women invest bodily resources into reproduction. 
B)  Men have their own status so they don't need additional status via a woman. 
C)  Women have only recently begun to acquire their own resources in most societies. 
D)  all of the above 
A)  Women invest bodily resources into reproduction. 
B)  Men have their own status so they don't need additional status via a woman. 
C)  Women have only recently begun to acquire their own resources in most societies. 
D)  all of the above

Question 11

Mike walks into McDonald's and sees two women about his age.One is very attractive and is working behind the counter.The other is an average looking customer who is wearing a suit and carrying an expensive leather briefcase.Which of the two is Mike likely to be attracted to?

Accepted Answer

A)  the counter helper because she is attractive 
B)  the counter helper because she has lower social status 
C)  the customer because she has higher social status 
D)  the customer because she is less attractive 
A)  the counter helper because she is attractive 
B)  the counter helper because she has lower social status 
C)  the customer because she has higher social status 
D)  the customer because she is less attractive

Question 12

Barr et al (2002)asked people what comes to mind when they think of men and women reaching their sexual peaks in life and found that people said that

Accepted Answer

A)  men's peak was related to desire and frequency of orgasm, but women's peak was related to sexual satisfaction. 
B)  men and women both experienced maximum sexual desire after having achieved maximum sexual satisfaction. 
C)  women's sexual peak was related to sexual desire, but men's to frequency of orgasm. 
D)  that women tend to reach their sexual peak earlier in life than men do. 
A)  men's peak was related to desire and frequency of orgasm, but women's peak was related to sexual satisfaction. 
B)  men and women both experienced maximum sexual desire after having achieved maximum sexual satisfaction. 
C)  women's sexual peak was related to sexual desire, but men's to frequency of orgasm. 
D)  that women tend to reach their sexual peak earlier in life than men do.

Question 13

Symmetrical faces are perceived to be healthier.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Dick picks up Jane for their first date.Jane has an OK time,but when she arrives home,she and her parents have a heated argument in which her parents tell her that they can't stand Dick.Jane leaves this encounter with her heart pounding and her face flushed.Jane decides she is in love with Dick and has to see him again.Jane's change of heart is most easily explained by

Accepted Answer

A)  the two-factor theory of love. 
B)  Jane's dislike of her parents. 
C)  the reinforcement-affect model of love. 
D)  Sternberg's three-construct representation of love. 
A)  the two-factor theory of love. 
B)  Jane's dislike of her parents. 
C)  the reinforcement-affect model of love. 
D)  Sternberg's three-construct representation of love.

Question 15

Which of the following is true regarding men and women's preferences for a long-term relationship partner's intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women value intelligence more than men for long-term partners. 
B)  Men and women value intelligence equally for long-term partners. 
C)  Men value intelligence more than women for long-term partners. 
D)  Neither men nor women place much value on intelligence in long-term partners. 
A)  Women value intelligence more than men for long-term partners. 
B)  Men and women value intelligence equally for long-term partners. 
C)  Men value intelligence more than women for long-term partners. 
D)  Neither men nor women place much value on intelligence in long-term partners.

Question 16

Which of the following is FALSE regarding individuals with a restricted sociosexual orientation,relative to individuals with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation?

Accepted Answer

A)  They begin having sex later in a given relationship. 
B)  They are less likely to view their opposite-sex friends as potential sex partners. 
C)  They have a lower sex drive. 
D)  They have fewer sex partners during their lives. 
A)  They begin having sex later in a given relationship. 
B)  They are less likely to view their opposite-sex friends as potential sex partners. 
C)  They have a lower sex drive. 
D)  They have fewer sex partners during their lives.

Question 17

Why might it have been adaptive for women to be more upset over their partner's emotional infidelity than his sexual infidelity?

Accepted Answer

A)  because emotional infidelity was more likely to lead to a loss of resources for her and her offspring 
B)  because sexual infidelity was more likely to lead to a loss of resources for her and her offspring 
C)  it wasn't; women are more upset over sexual than emotional infidelity 
D)  it wasn't; only men are more upset over emotional than sexual infidelity 
A)  because emotional infidelity was more likely to lead to a loss of resources for her and her offspring 
B)  because sexual infidelity was more likely to lead to a loss of resources for her and her offspring 
C)  it wasn't; women are more upset over sexual than emotional infidelity 
D)  it wasn't; only men are more upset over emotional than sexual infidelity

Question 18

Describe how men and women often interpret interactions between males and females in different ways,and discuss how evolutionary theory might explain these differences.

Accepted Answer

Males tend to view female behavior,inclu

Question 19

Why do men in their teens show a preference for women in their 20s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Older women have more resources. 
B)  Women in their 20s have high reproductive potential. 
C)  Men are generally always attracted to older women. 
D)  Men desire partners with higher status than their own. 
A)  Older women have more resources. 
B)  Women in their 20s have high reproductive potential. 
C)  Men are generally always attracted to older women. 
D)  Men desire partners with higher status than their own.

Question 20

According to Sternberg (1986),the three essential components of love include all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  companionship. 
B)  decision/commitment. 
C)  intimacy. 
D)  passion. 
A)  companionship. 
B)  decision/commitment. 
C)  intimacy. 
D)  passion.

Mark has an exchange orientation toward relationships.Which of the following is probably true of Mark's relationship with his girlfriend Jin?

The fact that there are strict taboos against premarital sex in Egypt,whereas everyone has multiple sex partners before marriage on the Pacific Island of Mangaia,demonstrates

Which of the statements about unrequited love is FALSE?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding the relationships of individuals with an anxious/ambivalent attachment style?

In the Lydon et al (1999)study,when an attractive and available person expressed romantic interest to college-age individuals,

Imagine that a good friend asks you for advice concerning how to improve communication in her marriage.Describe four research-based recommendations you would give to her.

Men's tendency to overperceive a woman's sexual interest in men is adaptive because it

The most central component of companionate love is sexual attraction.

A disorder that involves a delusion that one is loved by another,even in the face of disconfirming evidence,is known as

What is the explanation that your textbook gives for why men focus on women's age and physical attractiveness instead of their status and resources?

Mike walks into McDonald's and sees two women about his age.One is very attractive and is working behind the counter.The other is an average looking customer who is wearing a suit and carrying an expensive leather briefcase.Which of the two is Mike likely to be attracted to?

Barr et al (2002)asked people what comes to mind when they think of men and women reaching their sexual peaks in life and found that people said that

Symmetrical faces are perceived to be healthier.

Which of the following is true regarding men and women's preferences for a long-term relationship partner's intelligence?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding individuals with a restricted sociosexual orientation,relative to individuals with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation?

Why might it have been adaptive for women to be more upset over their partner's emotional infidelity than his sexual infidelity?

Describe how men and women often interpret interactions between males and females in different ways,and discuss how evolutionary theory might explain these differences.

Why do men in their teens show a preference for women in their 20s?

According to Sternberg (1986),the three essential components of love include all of the following EXCEPT

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Exam 8: Love and Romantic Relationships

Mark has an exchange orientation toward relationships.Which of the following is probably true of Mark's relationship with his girlfriend Jin?

The fact that there are strict taboos against premarital sex in Egypt,whereas everyone has multiple sex partners before marriage on the Pacific Island of Mangaia,demonstrates

Which of the statements about unrequited love is FALSE?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding the relationships of individuals with an anxious/ambivalent attachment style?

In the Lydon et al (1999)study,when an attractive and available person expressed romantic interest to college-age individuals,

Imagine that a good friend asks you for advice concerning how to improve communication in her marriage.Describe four research-based recommendations you would give to her.

Men's tendency to overperceive a woman's sexual interest in men is adaptive because it

The most central component of companionate love is sexual attraction.

A disorder that involves a delusion that one is loved by another,even in the face of disconfirming evidence,is known as

What is the explanation that your textbook gives for why men focus on women's age and physical attractiveness instead of their status and resources?

Mike walks into McDonald's and sees two women about his age.One is very attractive and is working behind the counter.The other is an average looking customer who is wearing a suit and carrying an expensive leather briefcase.Which of the two is Mike likely to be attracted to?

Barr et al (2002)asked people what comes to mind when they think of men and women reaching their sexual peaks in life and found that people said that

Symmetrical faces are perceived to be healthier.

Which of the following is true regarding men and women's preferences for a long-term relationship partner's intelligence?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding individuals with a restricted sociosexual orientation,relative to individuals with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation?

Why might it have been adaptive for women to be more upset over their partner's emotional infidelity than his sexual infidelity?

Describe how men and women often interpret interactions between males and females in different ways,and discuss how evolutionary theory might explain these differences.

Why do men in their teens show a preference for women in their 20s?

According to Sternberg (1986),the three essential components of love include all of the following EXCEPT

Introduction to Social Psychology

The Person and the Situation

Social Cognition: Understanding Ourselves and Others

Presenting the Self

Attitudes and Persuasion

Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience

Affiliation and Friendship

Prosocial Behavior

Aggression

Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Groups

Social Dilemmas: Cooperation versus Conflict

Integrating Social Psychology

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