Ch6 Love Test Questions & Answers - Test Bank | Marriages and Families 2e by Howe by Tasha R. Howe. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 6: Love
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The ability to be truly vulnerable and open with another person is referred to as ______.
a. familiarity
b. intimacy
c. closeness
d. affection
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Passionate/Romantic Love Versus Companionate Love
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Love is best defined as ______.
a. an overwhelming desire to be near another person
b. a subjective feeling of emotional connection with another person
c. a sense of relying on another person to fulfill one’s emotional needs
d. a feeling of affiliation, respect, and friendship
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Love?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The three elements of Sternberg’s triangular theory of love are ______.
a. friendship, passion, and intimacy
b. passion, intimacy, and commitment
c. ludus, eros, and agape
d. infatuation, romantic love, and commitment
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Which characteristic is NOT associated with consummate love?
a. a high level of intimacy
b. a low level of passion
c. a strong level of commitment
d. a strong physical attraction
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Sam and Linda have been married for 10 years. Both partners feel strong commitment to each other but no longer experience intimacy or physical passion. Their relationship is best described as ______.
a. infatuation
b. companionate love
c. consummate love
d. empty love
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. According to Sternberg’s view, which statement reflects a fantasy love story?
a. You know that I’ll always take care of you.
b. I’m glad to be traveling through life with you.
c. You must take better care of yourself.
d. It’s your turn to pick up the kids this week.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Brain Food: Examples of Love Stories
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Which of Lee’s love styles involves making a rational choice of a mate?
a. ludus
b. eros
c. storge
d. pragma
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lee’s Styles of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which of Lee’s love styles is closest to Sternberg’s consummate love?
a. storge
b. agape
c. ludus
d. eros
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lee’s Styles of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which statement about feminized love is correct?
a. It implies a tolerance for female homosexuality.
b. It encourages exploration of female sexuality.
c. It refers to an ideal vision of consummate love between spouses.
d. It implies that women are responsible for emotional support.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Issues
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. In traditional societies, marriage is thought of as a(n)______.
a. means of emotional support for marriage partners
b. economic or political alliance between families
c. way of giving women more power than they had on their own
d. avenue of self-expression
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Some Historical Trends
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Which statement best defines androgynous love?
a. Partners are not bound by traditional ideas about sexuality.
b. Both partners take on each other’s gender roles.
c. Both partners express love, sex, and intimacy.
d. Partners are free to experiment outside the relationship.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Androgynous Love
Difficulty Level: Hard
12. The limbic system is a part of the brain responsible for ______.
a. basic survival functions
b. emotional response
c. higher-level reasoning
d. balance and movement
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. The neocortex is a part of the brain responsible for ______.
a. basic survival functions
b. emotional response
c. higher level reasoning
d. balance and movement
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Which hormonal changes occur during kissing sessions?
a. decrease in vasopressin levels and increase in testosterone levels
b. increase in vasopressin levels and decrease in testosterone levels
c. decrease in oxytocin levels and increase in stress hormone levels
d. increase in oxytocin levels and decrease in stress hormone levels
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Kissing
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. When two people’s bodily rhythms become synchronized, they are experiencing ______.
a. limbic coregulation
b. limbic syncrisity
c. limbic co-efficacy
d. limbic stratification
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Relationship Development
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. The frequency with which a person perceives threat in a relationship is referred to as ______.
a. affective responsiveness
b. affective reactivity
c. affective reflection
d. affective regulation
Learning Objective: 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time. | 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. Which statement expresses an emotional assessment of ritualized love?
a. What are you doing on Saturday night?
b. We’ll take that cozy table in the corner.
c. Is that a new outfit?
d. I’ve never known anyone like you before.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time. | 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Macrosystem Forces
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. The term ______ refers to loving more than one person.
a. monoamory
b. polyamory
c. polygamy
d. monogamy
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Polyamory
Difficulty Level: Hard
19. Which family configuration exists when a couple is committed to each other but each partner may have additional liaisons that do not interfere with the primary relationship?
a. open model
b. polygamy
c. primary/secondary structure
d. multiple primary partners
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Polyamory
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. The goal of emotion-focused couples therapy is to ______.
a. increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones
b. increase the emotional level of an intimate relationship
c. identify each partner’s history of dysfunctional relationships
d. help couples enhance the value of their disagreements
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Professional Help for Enhancing Love
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. The brain stem is sometimes called the reptilian brain, due to its location in the lower or more primitive parts of the brain that control our survival functions.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. When a person self-mutilates, oxytocin, naturally occurring pain-relieving neurochemicals, is released in the brain and dull the greater emotional pain people are experiencing in their lives.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. The third, most sophisticated, and most recently evolved portion of the brain is the cerebral cortex.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. People who are depressed tend to have lower levels of serotonin and people who are very happy have higher levels.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. People with an insecure/anxious/preoccupied attachment style have sometimes experienced abandonment or trauma from their caregivers and then often enter adult love relationships with intense fears of betrayal and abandonment.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. People with dismissing/avoidant styles pursue intimacy at all costs.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Fearful/avoidant people feel such anxiety over intimacy that they choose to disengage in order to avoid the potential pain of getting too involved with others.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. People who have high affective reactivity will frequently become ambivalent in their romantic attachments, their affective threat systems will often be sedated, and they have no need to expend much energy on regulating their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. The temporal assessment of ritualized love relates to isolated time increments.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Macrosystem Forces
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. In the emotional assessment of romantic rituals, we see romantic feelings as integrated with other feelings.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Macrosystem Forces
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. One of the most effective forms of couples’ therapy is called emotion-focused couples therapy, in which the couple works to identify negative cycles and the threats they feel undermine their emotional security.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Professional Help for Enhancing Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Emotion-focused couples therapy (EFCT) focuses on each partner providing a sense of sympathy for where the other person came from emotionally, with both their parents and previous partners.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Professional Help for Enhancing Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Attachment theory posits that we develop internal working models that reflect our views of ourselves, our views of other people, and our views of relationships in general.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Baby Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Securely attached people tend to have constructive conflicts with their mates.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Adult Attachment
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Erik Erikson argued that the key developmental task one needs to accomplish in early adulthood is the skill of emotional security with others.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Passionate/Romantic Love Versus Companionate Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Companionate love is one of affiliation, deep respect, and a “best friendship.”
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Passionate/Romantic Love Versus Companionate Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Lee’s (1973) research uncovered ______ different styles of love, each with more or less focus on commitment and relationship health.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Like Sternberg’s companionate love, Lee’s idea of storge (pronounced stor-gee) love involves maintaining a healthy ______ relationship with someone who is your best friend.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lee’s Styles of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Agape love, which is similar to Sternberg’s ______, in that the couple is completely devoted to each other.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lee’s Styles of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In ______, partners fill the gaps and balance out their partner’s traits. The sheer act of loving that person makes each partner rise to become a better version of the self they once were.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Aron and Aron’s Self-Expansion Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. ______ thought love helped honorable men remain honorable with their male counterparts and that love for a woman was beneath any honorable man.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Aron and Aron’s Self-Expansion Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. As the philosophies of the ______ period of the 18th century began to spread, individual pleasure and happiness became priorities in the quest for a mate.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Some Historical Trends
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. For the middle and upper classes in the 19th century, the Victorian ideal of ______ evolved, where women did most of the loving and men avoided emotional commitment.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Issues
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. This kind of love is based on intimacy in both partners, where sex, love, and intimacy were combined in one relationship, and began to alter people’s expectations.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Androgynous Love
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. This polyamorous family configuration consists of a couple committed to each other and any other liaisons are considered secondary, meaning they can never interfere with or join the first relationship.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify various definitions of love and discuss three key theories that categorize types of love. | 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Polyamory
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. This is the idea that the brain has three key levels or structures.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Brain and Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard
Essay
1. Explain how Enlightenment ideas about personal happiness influenced marriage and divorce from the eighteenth to the 20th century in the United States.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Some Historical Trends
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What is the relationship between societal wealth and ideas about personal happiness and fulfillment? How does this influence expectations about marriage?
Learning Objective: 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Modern Ideas
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. How do scientists determine the role of specific neurotransmitters in regulating emotion? Explain why it is difficult for scientists to attribute specific feelings to specific neurotransmitters.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Relationship Development
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Define attachment theory and explain how it parallels Sternberg’s concept of love stories.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Discuss the cultural and historical trends around the conceptualization of love. | 6-3: Explain the basic biochemistry underlying love relationships over time. | 6-4: Discuss the interpersonal and social contexts of love and related therapeutic procedures for improving love relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Difficulty Level: Hard