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

While highly educated women tend to have very different sexual lives than less educated women, and highly religious women tend to have very different sexual lives than nonreligious women, the corresponding differences for men are much smaller. This is evidence of the fact that women ____.

When people in a relationship are tempted by being asked to think about meeting an attractive single person who would be a potential partner, men and women ____.

In a study by Van den Bergh et al. (2008), men who looked at sexy pictures or handled brassieres tended to ____.

Research by Murray and Holmes suggests that people who ____ their partner's bad points and ____ their partner's good points have the happiest relationships.

When it comes to close interpersonal relations, ____ relationships tend to be more mature, and more indicative of long-term success, than ____ relationships.

Research suggests that, in order for a marriage to remain healthy, couples should sustain the levels of passionate love that they had during the first year of their relationship.

Sternberg's triangular theory of love is a theory about ____.

Research suggests that, compared to married people, single people ____.

Research on gender differences in sexuality reveals that, in general, ____.

Compared to people who are single, married people ____.

The so-called _____ 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. So-called "romantic love" is referred to as ____.

According to social exchange theory, men's sexuality is the supply and women's sexuality creates the demand.

Which of the following is based on the view that sex is a resource that women have and men want?

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.

How does self-esteem relate to longevity of relationships?

A person with a fearful avoidant attachment is ____ on anxiety and ____ on avoidance.

Discuss current social psychological knowledge regarding passionate love versus companionate love.

Regarding oneself as a reasonably good person "as is" is known as ____.

While ____ love may be the most effective for starting relationships, ____ love may be the most effective for sustaining them in the long term.