Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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"Romantic love" is closest in meaning to which of these?
a. | poetic
bargaining | b. | the heraldic code | c. | courtly
love | d. | Napoleonic
love | | |
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The
exchange theory of dating and mate selection is closest to which of these?
a. | leveling | b. | bargaining | c. | imaging | d. | emotionality | | |
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The
sex ratio is calculated in terms of:
a. | persons' levels of physical
attractiveness | b. | kind of "batting average" regarding sexual
conquests | c. | the extent to which men and women embody ideals of masculinity
and femininity | d. | the number of males per 100 females | | |
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"Imaging" consists of:
a. | presenting an
unrealistically attractive one oneself to another person, hoping it will be taken as real, thus
attracting and holding the other person | b. | trying to keep before one's mind a conception of the kind of
person one wants to be, of how one wants to become, hoping in the near future to turn that into
reality | c. | the process whereby couples troubled relationships try to keep
"outsiders" from becoming aware of the troubled couple's
difficulties | d. | none of the above | | |
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Mead's two-stage marriage consists of ___________marriage and parental marriage.
a. | affectionate | b. | quasi- | c. | individual | d. | nontraditional | | |
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As
traditional courtship progresses, ________ places less emphasis on the end result, marriage, than
__________ does.
a. | the man; the woman | b. | homogamy;
heterogamy | c. | interracial dating; interreligious | d. | getting
together; dating | | |
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Which
of these is not one of the four common patterns of cohabitation?
a. | convenience | b. | testing | c. | emancipation | d. | habituated | | |
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Research tends to suggest that women ________ more readily than do men.
a. | approach
relationships nonrationally | b. | see the partner from unrealistically flattering
perspective | c. | tend to fall out of love | d. | become
relationship micro-politicians, manipulating aspects of the relationship | | |
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Which of the
following has been found to be most significantly associated with breakup after marriage has
occurred?
a. | premarital
pregnancy | b. | premarital birth | c. | disagreement
about using/not using contraception, and if used, by whom | d. | sexual
"imaging" | | |
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According to the text, for teenage parents, babies:
a. | help cement an
otherwise shaky relationship | b. | often keep the grandparents in contact with each other if/when
divorce occurs | c. | usually serve as a test of whether or not the couple have a
relationship worth keeping | d. | can interfere with the young parents achieving their
educational and career goals | | |
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