Ch.5 Dating And Mate Selection Verified Test Bank 2e - Test Bank | Marriages and Families 2e by Howe by Tasha R. Howe. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 5: Dating and Mate Selection
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which statement about hooking up among college students is INCORRECT?
a. Men have fewer feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem than women after hooking up.
b. Women who have psychosocial stress in their daily lives are more likely to hook up.
c. College men report that their major reason for attending parties is the chance of hooking up.
d. The best predictor of whether hooking up will occur at a party is the availability of alcohol.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Your cognitive template of what a relationship should be like is your ______.
a. internal functional guide
b. internal working model
c. internal moral compass
d. internal ethical model
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Attachment Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Which statement is an example of the communal sharing relationship dynamic?
a. My last relationship ended very painfully.
b. I really love to ski.
c. I hate it when people are late.
d. I’m not sure this relationship is working out.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. People with dismissing avoidant internal working models of attachment tend to be
a. fearful of being hurt.
b. ambivalent toward their partners.
c. highly self-reliant.
d. open and trusting.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Which statement about people with fearful avoidant internal working models of attachment is correct?
a. They feel safest when in an intimate relationship.
b. They have difficulty expressing feelings.
c. Their fear can lead them to become violent.
d. They both desire and fear intimacy.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Which statement best expresses the disillusionment model of relationship formation?
a. You make me feel very secure.
b. You don’t look like the person I expected to be with.
c. You have changed since we became exclusive.
d. You don’t give me enough space.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. If males are scarce in a population, what mating strategy do females follow?
a. celibacy
b. promiscuity
c. marrying earlier
d. marrying later
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Biological Factors
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. In all cultures, women tend to be attracted to men who ______.
a. other women are attracted to
b. have a 0.7 waist-to-hip ratio
c. are younger than they are
d. are taller than average
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Evolutionary Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Which of the following is an example of a macrosystem influence on your dating life?
a. Your parents impose a very early curfew.
b. You became biologically mature at an early age.
c. Your grandparents pressure your parents to impose a curfew.
d. There is a spike in the incidence of date rape in your community.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: A Bioecological Examination of Dating and Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Which neurotransmitter is associated with feelings of infatuation?
a. dopamine
b. serotonin
c. oxytocin
d. norepinephrine
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Neurobiological Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Oxytocin, which gives us a sense of calm security, and vasopressin, which influences feelings of emotional bonding, both circulate in higher amounts in the brain during the:
a. lust phase
b. addiction phase
c. attraction phase
d. attachment phase
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Phases of Chemical Attraction
Difficulty Level: Hard
12. The three phases of chemical attachment are ______.
a. lust, attraction, and attachment
b. lust, attachment, and repulsion
c. communal sharing, authority ranking, and equality matching
d. communal sharing, authority ranking, and market pricing
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Phases of Chemical Attraction
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which statement about couples who are insecurely attached is CORRECT?
a. They tend to have lower than normal cortisol levels.
b. They tend to remain in a heightened state of physiological arousal.
c. They tend to report feeling low levels of anxiety about relationship problems.
d. They tend to exhibit higher than average coping abilities.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Attachment and Physiological Reactivity
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which statement about people who are highly stress reactive is CORRECT?
a. They have high cortisol levels.
b. They tend to be reckless.
c. They tend to be fearless.
d. They tend to take many risks.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Attachment and Physiological Reactivity
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. This process states that the more you see a person, the more you like that person.
a. repeated measure effect
b. simple contact effect
c. mere exposure effect
d. sheer contact effect
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Person, Process, and Context Factors
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. In what percentage of societies is monogamy the normative marriage system?
a. 1%
b. 6%
c. 16%
d. 96%
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns. | 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples. | 5-5: Discuss some global trends and issues that affect dating in the modern age.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Macrosystem: Cultural Factors
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. Laws that banned sexual relations or marriage between persons of different races were called ______.
a. anti-miscegenation laws
b. anti-ethnicization laws
c. anti-mitigation laws
d. anti-misogynous laws
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Historical Trends in Dating and Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. In general, ethnic minority youth who are LGBT have relatively little difficulty establishing a secure sexual identity because ______.
a. their ethnic communities are accepting of sexual minorities
b. their ethnic communities include strong social support networks
c. ethnic minority youth tend to come out at a later stage, when they have already left home
d. ethnic minority youth have developed skills to help them cope with marginalization
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: LGBT Communities and Dating
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Which of the following is a recent dating trend among senior adults?
a. Women want to date but do not want to marry.
b. Men want to date but do not want to marry.
c. Women who are in good health are less likely to date.
d. Men who are in good health are less likely to date.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Seniors and Dating
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for becoming a perpetrator of dating violence?
a. involvement with antisocial friends
b. history of academic problems
c. history of family violence
d. depression and anxiety
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Dating Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Most people experience some level of homophily or attraction to partners who are similar to them.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Person, Process, and Context Factors
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Gender role expectations no longer play a major role in the dating game.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Structural–Functionalism and Dating
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The traditional western dating pattern is patriarchal because it centers around girls looking for boys who can take care of them, and when pairs form, the importance of the boyfriend overshadows the girls’ previous friendships.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Structural–Functionalism and Dating
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Filter theory focuses on obvious as well as subtle power differentials. It argues that over time, people start to question their traditional roles and want more for themselves than those roles provide.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Conflict Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Conflict theory states that we sift through all possible potential mates until smaller and smaller groups of eligible mates are formed.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Filter Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Pigmentocracy means that the color of one’s skin determines how many dating opportunities he or she has.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Crossing Ethnic Lines
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Many sexual minority youth report engaging in heterosexual sexual experiences and actually enjoying it.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: LGBT Communities and Dating
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Surprisingly, research shows that late life dating does not follow traditional gender roles; instead, women ask men out and pay for things.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns. | 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Seniors and Dating
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. More recent research examining older women’s views about their dating lives reveals a trend toward changing gender roles and attitudes.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns. | 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Seniors and Dating
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. People communicating through modern technological means also tend to let down their guard more quickly.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns. | 5-4: Discuss dating behaviors and attitudes in diverse populations including mixed-race couples, LGBT couples, and younger and older couples.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Dating With Technology
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. In more collectivist cultures, such as India and China, people may have less control over whom they select as their mates, and they may not have the privilege of “dating” at all.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-5: Discuss some global trends and issues that affect dating in the modern age.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Despite gender role expectations regarding hypersexuality in males, men are far less likely to hook up than women are.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-5: Discuss some global trends and issues that affect dating in the modern age.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. People with dismissing avoidant internal working models of attachment may be uncomfortable with intimacy, sharing feelings, or expressions of intense emotion.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Attachment Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Evolutionary forces have very little influence on how we select our mates.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Biological Factors
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Evolutionary psychologists believe there are universal human traits that potential mates find attractive in order to ensure they mate with the most physically fit and healthy person who might guarantee the continuation of their gene pool through healthy offspring.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Evolutionary Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. The second phase of chemical attraction, attraction proper, is characterized by increases in the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Phases of Chemical Attraction
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Historically, most, if not all, mates were chosen based on the financial benefit, political gain, or social standing that person could bring to the entire family, and ultimately, on the ability to ______.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Historical Trends in Dating and Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Historically, with new rituals becoming entrenched, gender ______ also evolved.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Historical Trends in Dating and Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. This is a process whereby people select each other as mates and decide to make a committed partnership with each other, such as marriage.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. People with this type of internal working models of attachment may be uncomfortable with intimacy, sharing feelings, or expressions of intense emotion.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. This model of attachment involves partners being on their best behavior in the beginning of a courtship but then becoming disappointed as time goes on.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: General Processes Leading from Dating to Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The second phase of chemical attraction, ______, is characterized by increases in the neurotransmitter dopamine. It also involves increases in norepinephrine (popularly known as adrenalin) and decreases in serotonin (the mood-stabilizing neurotransmitter).
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Phases of Chemical Attraction
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Once a couple reaches this phase of their relationship, internal working models are activated, directing and organizing discussions, problem-solving, disagreements, worries, and communication.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Attachment and Physiological Reactivity
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. ______ attached people cope without asking others for help or even talking to loved ones about the attachment challenge.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Attachment and Physiological Reactivity
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. Besides the more biological factors of lust and attraction, many individual and personal factors, as well as larger social contexts, also influence whom we choose as our mates. The most obvious contextual influence is ______, or nearness.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Person, Process, and Context Factors
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. This states that we are drawn to those who are about as attractive as we are, share like personality traits, have obtained similar levels of education, share religious or cultural values, and have similar interests.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection. | 5-3: Identify some theories that are used to analyze dating and mate selection patterns.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Person, Process, and Context Factors
Difficulty Level: Hard
Essay
1. Explain how the production of neurotransmitters and hormones influences and affects the stages of a relationship.
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Phases of Chemical Attraction
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What are the basic tenets of expectancy value theory? What evidence supports this theory of attraction?
Learning Objective: 5-2: Describe how factors in each system of the bioecological model impact dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Person, Process, and Context Factors
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Discuss the effect that the mass production of automobiles had on sex and dating in the 20th century.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Historical Trends in Dating and Mate Selection
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. What are some of the differences between western and non-western dating practices? How is globalization affecting dating practices in some more traditional countries?
Learning Objective: 5-1: Summarize historical and contemporary trends in dating and mate selection. | 5-5: Discuss some global trends and issues that affect dating in the modern age.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Global Dating Trends
Difficulty Level: Hard