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

Compared to people in close exchange relationships, people in close communal relationships ____.

Research on sexual jealousy suggests that it is ____.

In recent formulations of attachment theory, researchers have suggested that there are two dimensions involved in attachments. These are ____.

The tendency for the sex drive to be shaped and altered by social, cultural, and situational factors refers to ____.

Social psychologists have identified several different types of love. So-called "romantic love" is referred to as ____.

According to Daryl Bem's notion of "exotic becomes erotic," if a girl has grown up playing only with other girls, and finds that she is nervous around boys when she hits adolescence, then she is likely to ____.

Many longitudinal studies that track couples across time have found that there are essentially two patterns: Some couples ____ and some couples ____.

Which ideas suggest that attitudes and behaviors, including sexual desires and sexual behaviors, are strongly shaped by culture and socialization?

According to evolutionary theory, women should be relatively more upset than men if they found out that their partner was falling in love with someone else because ____.

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.

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

If Alexis engages in a distress-maintaining style of attribution when explaining her husband Tim's behavior, then she will make ____ attributions for Tim's achievements and ____ attributions for Tim's failures.

Using Sternberg's triangular theory of love as a framework, companionate love might be best described as consisting of ____.

Social exchange theory seeks to understand social behavior, including sexual behavior, ____.

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

The anxiety dimension of attachment is best described as referring to attitudes towards the ____.

Compared to couples who are unhappy, happy couples tend to make use of a(n) ____ attributional style when explaining their spouse's behaviors.

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

As described in the textbook, Daryl Bem has suggested an explanation for homosexuality based on the ideas that (a) children have predilections for certain kinds of play when they are young, and end up playing mostly with boys or mostly with girls as a result; (b) as adolescents, they see the less-known gender as different and anxiety-provoking; and (c) they later relabel that anxiety as sexual attraction. In the aggregate, Bem's explanation is known as the idea that ________________.

What does the textbook say about the stereotype that women are the gatekeepers of sex (i.e., the ones who generally restrict sex and determine whether and when it will happen)?