Exam 5: Love and Choosing a Life Partner

Some immigrant parents arrange for a spouse from their home country to marry their offspring. This is one type of __________ marriage.

Briefly explain how exchange theory helps us to understand the "marriage market."

Propinquity is also known as

Research has shown that individuals gradually filter, or sort out, those who they think would not make the best life partner; for instance, women place importance on potential financial success in a mate. This is an example of which concept?

Of the components of consummate love, which is the most gradual to develop?

Sociologist Robert Davis believes that black men are inclined to see white women as

The ______ hypothesis suggests that more texting is positively associated with other forms of communication.

Of the components of consummate love, which is the quickest to develop and the quickest to fade?

Love may be accurately characterized as excessive self-sacrifice.

Research reveals that women almost never engage in physical aggression in male-female relationships.

What does attachment theory have to do with marital stability?

Many female victims blame themselves at least partially for date rape.

What impact does heterogamy have on marital stability and human values?

There is evidence that the beauty-financial exchange may have been exaggerated because previous studies did not control for ______, which is the tendency of individuals to select partners with characteristics similar to their own.

In June of 1967 ( Loving v. Virginia ), the U.S. Supreme Court declared that interracial marriages must be considered legally valid in all states.

According to psychologist Beverly Smallwood, which of the following is NOT one of the most common love myths?

__________ are the most likely of all ethnic/racial categories to intermarry.

Psychologist Robert Sternberg proposed a __________ theory of love.

Love is NOT __________, which involves maintaining relationships by consistently minimizing one's own needs while trying to satisfy those of a partner.

Although breaking up is hard to do any time, breakups can be a good thing in certain cases.