Exam 7: The Path to Commitment: Attraction, Dating, Partnering, and Cohabitation

Recent research indicates that women rate emotional stability and commitment to marriage and family _____.

According to Stephen Duck, we use different types of cues to sort interpersonal relationship information. These cues provide at-a-glance information that help us decide whether we would even consider wanting a date with a certain person.

During this stage of Knapp's relationship escalation model, the couple reaches a shared level of interdependence. Knapp notes that it is during this relationship stage that some type of formal, official announcement is made of the couple's commitment to one another (such as an engagement or marriage).

When all is said done and we have exhausted all propinquity, social, and physical attractiveness filters, we look at what someone can offer us that we cannot find in anyone else. The text refers to this as the ________ filter.

When it comes to body shape and size, women find muscular men more attractive than average-sized men.

Almost one-half of adults in their 20s and 30s live together before marriage.

There are several factors that contribute to whether a person chooses to live with an intimate partner and forego the traditional path of marriage. Name four.

According to Darwin, the primary evolutionary biological goal of males in mate selection is _____.

Endogamy refers to the notion that certain groups marry within that same group.

________ involves practices that groom young adults for marriage, practices that are socially prescribed forms of conduct that guide men and women toward matrimony.

Though the customs and rituals may vary across racial, cultural, ethnic, economic, and religious boundaries, people come together to form pair bonds, or couples.

The social exchange theory presents the notion that when presented with a situation in your interpersonal or family relationships, you sensibly and judiciously analyze the ratio of the rewards to the costs, and you then make a decision that results in the greatest reward.

________ refers to partnering with someone who is similar to you - similar in ethnic and racial background, religious upbringing, age, education level, political ideology, socioeconomic status, and values and beliefs.

In a recent survey of over 50,000 respondents, Olson and Olson-Sigg (2007) found six contemporary reasons that couples live together before marriage. Name three.

________ is a term used to describe the living arrangements of unmarried, intimate partners who typically have a sexual relationship.

White and Klein (2002) suggest that because exchange theory focuses on cost-benefit analysis, tenets of this framework are helpful in aiding those working with families and individual family members to employ intervention and prevention strategies that focus on increasing positive/rewarding behaviors and decreasing negative/costly behavioral interactions.

The concept of dating has been around since the middle ages.

What is the matching hypothesis?

Compare and contrast the primary goal of mate selection for males and females according to evolutionary theory.

The Surma people of a remote region of southwest Ethiopia engage in an annual courtship ritual where hundreds of men join together to fight for the available women. To woo a potential bride, the men engage in a mock display of violence, wielding and wildly swinging large sticks. This is an example of one culture's way of people forming ________.