Exam 5: Love and Choosing a Life Partner

Friendship networks tend to be highly ______, encouraging similar people to meet and interact.

Research suggests that the best way to choose a life partner is to look for someone you are physically attracted to.

__________ refers to marriage between those who are different in race, age, education, religious background, or social class.

Research on choosing a committed life partner has focused almost solely on heterosexual marital mate selection.

The very FIRST filter people use to choose a mate is the

Consider this statement: "If I can get him/her to do what I want done, then I'll be sure he/she loves me." This reflects

Once a couple starts to date, ______ are viewed as places to make an emotional connection and publicize the romance.

Robert Winch proposed the theory of __________, whereby people are attracted to partners whose needs complement their own.

Which of the following is NOT an interethnic marriage?

Early research on cohabitation indicated that marriages that were preceded by more than one instance of cohabitation were __________ likely to end in separation or divorce than marriages in which the spouses had not previously cohabited at all.

Jane married a man from her own social group. Her marital behavior illustrates

Researchers have found it discouraging that about __________ of abusive dating relationships continue rather than being broken off.

In Robert Sternberg's typology, __________ love is composed of all three dimensions of his theory.

Adults with a(n)__________ attachment style are inclined to trust that their relationships will provide ongoing emotional support.

According to the wheel of love theory, there are four stages in the development of love. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

In much of the world, particularly in parts of Asia and Africa that are less Westernized, parents have traditionally __________ their children's marriages.

Applying the __________ hypothesis to black-white intermarriage would suggest marrying up socioeconomically on the part of a white person, who, in effect, trades socially defined superior racial status for the economically superior status of a middle- or upper-middle class black partner.

Children of divorce usually divorce themselves.

Under what circumstances is a couple likely to break up? What does the exchange perspective have to say regarding break-ups?

Despite its growing appeal among college students, __________ has unfortunately been empirically linked to known risky behaviors such as alcohol abuse and engaging in sexual intercourse without using a condom.