Exam 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality

Jack brought his wife flowers. She thinks, "Oh, great! What has he screwed up now?" Jack later left his underwear on the floor, and his wife thought, "Geez, isn't that just typical of him. He is so lazy!" Jack's wife has a(n)________________ style of attribution.

In most work relationships, people only help one another if they are manifestly paid for their services, or if they expect a direct favor in return. Such relationships are known as ____.

According to Daryl Bem's notion of "exotic becomes erotic," a young boy is MOST likely to grow up to become a gay adult if ____.

____ is defined as a pattern of moral judgment that says specific sexual behaviors (especially premarital sex)are acceptable for men but immoral for women.

Social psychologists have identified several different types of love. Which of the following types of love refers to mutual understanding and caring to make the relationship succeed?

Alexis found out her father had an affair. She is furious and thinks his behavior is completely unacceptable. Later, she learns that her mother had an affair as well. She does not condemn her mother nearly as harshly. Alexis has a(n)____.

Given the research on gender differences in sexuality, it would make the most sense to suppose that African women and Australian women have ____ sexual lives, while African men and Australian men have ____ sexual lives. ​

Describe Caryl Rusbult's investment model.

Marriage has been linked to physical health benefits as well as psychological well-being. For men, the difference seems rooted in ____. ​

What is the effect of self-love and self-esteem on the health of relationships?

Couples experiencing passionate love tend to have overly positive, idealized views of one another. Research suggests that such views can often ____.

Having a negative, critical attitude toward yourself can ____.

Ethan and Rita are infatuated with one another. Whenever they see each other, their hearts pound and they feel sexually excited. They also think about one another constantly when they are apart. Social psychologists would say that they are experiencing ____. ​

If Alexis engages in a distress-maintaining style of attribution when explaining her husband Tim ' s behavior, then she will make ____ attributions for Tim ' s achievements and ____ attributions for Tim ' s failures.

In Sternberg's triangular theory of love, intimacy refers to ____.

What role do weddings play in the likelihood that a marriage will succeed? ​

Swann's research suggests that people want others to see them ____.

Are married people happier than unmarried people?

Research on long-term relationships indicates that people tend to perceive that their relationship satisfaction is ____ year after year; when in reality, their relationship satisfaction is ____ across time.

In John Bowlby's original  formulation of attachment theory, applied to infants, there were ____ different attachment styles. In more recent formulations of attachment theory, applied to adults, there are ____ different attachment styles.