Exam 6: Love and Choosing a Life Partner

__________ couples vacillate between commitment and ambivalence and often disagree on how committed they were as well as why they became committed in the first place.

Discuss Sternberg's triangular theory of love, including a description of the qualities that would produce a consummate love.

Available statistics show that the proportion of interracial and interethnic marriages is fairly small (between ___________of the adult U.S. population), or 4.5 million couples.

Which of the following is NOT an interethnic marriage?

Research suggests that physical violence occurs in about __________ percent of dating relationships.

Many people in the world expect love to develop after marriage.

The ideas of bargaining, market, and resources used to describe relationships such as marriage come to us from __________ theory.

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

How many divorced Americans remarry within 10 years ?

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

Desiring wives who can make good money, college-educated men are now much more likely than a few decades ago to marry college-educated women. This reflects increased __________ homogamy.

The __________ hypothesis posits that cohabitating experiences themselves affect individuals so that, once married, they are more likely to divorce.

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

Furthermore, research has found that cohabitors who marry after having a nonmarital birth experience ___________ marital relationship quality than do non-parent cohabitors who eventually marry.

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of cohabitation and choosing not to cohabit leading up to marriage.

Research suggests several qualities to look for when choosing a spouse. Which of the following is NOT one of those qualities?

Physical attractiveness is especially important in the early stages of a relationship.

Which of the following is NOT one of the early indicators that a dating partner is likely to become violent eventually?

__________ theory suggests that people tend to marry others whose social currency-social class, education, physical attractiveness-is similar to their own.

Adults with a(n) __________ attachment style exhibit possible negative behaviors such as unwarranted jealousy or attempts to control one's partner due to "fear of abandonment."