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Chapter 8: Living Single
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Approximately what proportion of single-person households is made up of people who are middle-aged or older?
a. one tenth
b. one quarter
c. one half
d. three quarters
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Overview of Singlehood
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Approximately how many unmarried adults were there in the United States in 2007?
a. 60 million
b. 80 million
c. 100 million
d. 200 million
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Overview of Singlehood
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The ability to analyze people’s comments objectively and not take them personally or internalize negative images of one’s self is called ______.
a. resistant thinking
b. resilient thinking
c. hesitant thinking
d. reticent thinking
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. A person is engaging in a managed interaction when he or she ______.
a. plans in advance how to respond to an unwelcome invitation
b. considers all the advantages of a given social situation
c. analyzes a person’s comments and avoids taking them personally
d. joins organizations that advocate for the rights of single people
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A person who has attained identity achievement is one who has ______.
a. formed a long-term commitment to another person
b. a clear sense of vocational, spiritual, social, emotional, and cognitive self
c. committed to a set of values, goals, and personal identities
d. formed a stable circle of intimate personal relationships
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. During emerging adulthood, a person’s focus is on ______.
a. forming a long-term relationship
b. financial security
c. beginning to form a family
d. personal development and searching
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic associated with educated singles?
a. at least a bachelor’s degree
b. in a steady relationship
c. have at least one child
d. have their own apartment
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. ______ are young adults (mainly women) who, by age 24, have children but do not engage in work roles.
a. Parents without careers
b. Educated partners
c. Unemployed singles
d. Uneducated singles
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which group of singles is most likely to be engaged in illegal activity?
a. slow starters
b. working singles
c. educated singles
d. fast starters
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. A single adult who has embarked on all the adult roles of relationship and career by age 24 is called a(n) ______.
a. slow starter
b. working single
c. educated single
d. fast starter
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Which statement about working singles is INCORRECT?
a. most are men
b. most have good jobs
c. most have not graduated from college
d. most do not have stable relationships
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. An involuntary single who accepts her or his single life as meaningful is referred to as ______.
a. ambivalent
b. wishful
c. resolved
d. regretful
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. An involuntary single who lives a lifetime of disappointment over never having found a partner is referred to as ______.
a. ambivalent
b. wishful
c. resolved
d. regretful
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which statement about people who make a conscious choice to remain single is correct?
a. They are often happier than involuntary singles.
b. They are often unhappier than involuntary singles.
c. They are happier if they have children.
d. They are happier if they do not have children.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. A lifetime single person who feels disappointment over remaining single is referred to as ______.
a. ambivalent
b. wishful
c. resolved
d. regretful
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Mark has decided that he never wants to find a partner. He would be called a(n) ______.
a. voluntary stable single
b. voluntary temporary single
c. involuntary stable single
d. involuntary temporary single
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. After many years of searching, Dan realizes that he will never find a partner. He would be called a(n) ______.
a. voluntary stable single
b. voluntary temporary single
c. involuntary stable single
d. involuntary temporary single
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Which family is most favorably treated by U.S. tax laws?
a. a single-earner married couple
b. a single person living alone
c. two singles in a joint household
d. a two-earner married couple
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Examples From the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Which individual is likely to experience the LEAST singles strain?
a. a recently widowed man
b. a middle-aged individual who is financially secure
c. a recently divorced woman
d. a young adult just beginning a professional career
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Singles Strain
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. A strategy to cope with being single in a couples-oriented world that involves adjusting one’s attitude to see all the advantages of the single lifestyle is referred to as ______.
a. self-regulated thinking
b. resistant thinking
c. managed interactions
d. embracing singlehood
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. When people fail to meet societal expectations for partnering behavior, they can be negatively judged and even ostracized or discriminated against.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Single people themselves report receiving bad service in stores and restaurants as well as experiencing condescending attitudes from various professionals.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Singles rarely need to rely on others to help them with tasks, negotiate life’s problems, and generally support them because most are emotionally independent.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The Erikson’s stages model suggests that all people will form romantic relationships, settle down into coupledom (usually heterosexual marriage), and have children, in that order.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The normative life cycle model suggests that people search for diverse experiences and then decide upon an integrated identity, which will help them build intimacy skills with others.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Never-married people tend to be more willing to date than people who have lost spouses, and they tend to be more open to dating diverse partners.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Non-normative singles, people who are still single after the age of 25, face more discrimination and negative judgments than those who are single but are still within the normative age range for committed partnerships and marriage.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Non-Normative Singles
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Another growing trend in the realm of singlehood is people who are living apart together (LAT).
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Living Apart Together
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. According to diverse reasons, people may give for being single in adulthood, one is personal past: actively looking but haven’t met the right person yet.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diverse Reasons for Singlehood
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. According to diverse reasons, people may give for being single in adulthood, one is learning from experience—not wanting to be hurt or to date “losers” anymore.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diverse Reasons for Singlehood
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Singlism in society ensures that unmarried women continue to be at a disadvantage both economically and socially compared to married women.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Psychological and Physical Health of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Interestingly, research has suggested that those who are not involved in romantic relationships, as well as those who have lost a relationship through breakup, divorce, or death, tend to turn to religion to fill emotional needs.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Attachments
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Cognitive theory usually posits that we want to replicate our genes as much as possible by having many of our own biological children.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Priests, Monks, and Nuns: A Historic Family Necessity
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Findings show that “single by choice” may be rare in gay men and heterosexuals alike.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Exosystem forces, such as public policies, favor single people in the form of increased benefits at work or readily accepted applications at adoption agencies, impacting single-person families.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Macrosystem Forces Against Singlehood
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. It is becoming more common in most African nations that more and more women are choosing to remain unmarried throughout their lives.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Examples From Africa
Difficulty Level: Hard
Short Answer
1. This is a strategy to cope with being single in a couples-oriented world; thinking of polite ways to decline invitations to non-single-friendly events as well as how to respond to “singlist” comments.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. A civil rights movement which advocates for the rights and protections of singles.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coping With Singlism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. This suggests that all people will form romantic relationships, settle down into coupledom (usually heterosexual marriage), and have children, in that order.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Normative Life Cycle Model
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In adolescence, we experience the struggle of identity versus ______.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. In this level, known as ______, of Erikson’s stages, one must be able to form mature intimate relationships, which involve bonding with other people but not losing one’s self.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. According to James Marcia, this period called ______ includes meeting diverse people, traveling, trying new things, and experimenting with life.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. James Marcia states that after a period of intense exploration in early adulthood, a person will eventually experience ______.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. According to James Marcia, this is a positive outcome, combining a prolonged search with a strong commitment to identity and it is called ______.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-2: Explain how normative early adulthood developmental processes can affect adjustment in single people. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The ideology of gender equality is another important ______ influence that is changing the lives of single people in Africa.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Struggles for Identity and Intimacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Prejudice against single people is a continuous struggle for those who live their lives uncoupled, known as ______.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Singlism
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. What does it mean to say that the meaning of singlehood is culturally constructed? Explain and give at least one example.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Unique Challenges Facing Singles
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What type of emerging adult are you now? What type do you expect to be when you are 24? Explain your answer.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Discuss singlism and how it affects single people’s lives. | 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emerging Adulthood
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Explain how the macrosystem influences single people, either in those cultures discussed or in your own experience.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Examples From Africa
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Many studies about life satisfaction and mental and physical health suggest that married people fare better than singles in various areas. Briefly summarize these findings. Do you believe that causation is involved, or do you think that social selection is at work?
Learning Objective: 8-3: Discuss the different types of singlehood and some of the key reasons for remaining single. | 8-4: Explain how larger cultural values and practices can impact a single person’s life. | 8-5: Discuss what research shows about the health and well-being of single people.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Single People
Difficulty Level: Hard