Exam 6: Love and Choosing a Life Partner

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

Which of the following is NOT one of the three components of psychologist Robert Sternberg's theory of love?

The United States is an example of what cross-cultural researchers call a free-choice culture.

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?

What does attachment theory have to do with marital stability? (p. 141)

The fact that marriages are arranged implies that love is ignored by parents.

Martyring is essentially equivalent to intimacy.

Which of the following reasons is espoused by your textbook as a good reason for ending a relationship?

What is "date rape?" Give an example of one of the rape myths. (p. 155)

The __________ hypothesis involves the argument that an individual might trade his or her socially defined superior racial/ethnic status for the economically or educationally superior status of a partner in a less-privileged racial/ethnic group.

A research study discussed in your text compared the effects of cohabitation on marital stability in several countries and found that cohabiting had no negative effect on marital stability in countries such as _________, where cohabiting is more common than in the United States.

Typically in __________ cultures, a wedding takes place only after a relationship has developed.

In general, social scientists find that the most stable marriages are those that are homogamous in

Compare and contrast arranged marriage with "free-choice" marriage.

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.

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

Relationships can more often be permanently satisfying, counselors advise, when spouses learn to care for the __________other, not a "splendid image."

Children of divorce usually divorce themselves.

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

More than __________ percent of non-Hispanic white and black couples are racially homogeneous.