Exam Questions Marriages And Committed Partnerships Ch7 - Test Bank | Marriages and Families 2e by Howe by Tasha R. Howe. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 7: Marriages and Committed Partnerships
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The “second shift” refers to ______.
a. work performed at a paid job
b. work performed at home after coming home from a paid job
c. work inside the home done by women
d. work inside the home done by men
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sharing Roles in Committed Partnerships
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which trend is NOT associated with the deinstitutionalization of marriage?
a. an increase in the legal status of women
b. an increase in the number of stepfamilies
c. a general tightening of divorce laws
d. an increase in cohabitation
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. A policy that gives non-married heterosexual couples the same rights and responsibilities as married couples is a ______ law.
a. domestic partnership
b. common
c. federal
d. state
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Key Historical Turning Points in Same-Sex Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Which statement about the health effects of marriage is correct?
a. The health benefits of marriage are equal for men and for women.
b. Marriage affects several specific health markers but not longevity.
c. Marital conflict is a major cause of stress, which is a factor in many chronic diseases.
d. Spending time with a spouse lowers the blood pressure of even unhappily married people.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Health Benefits of Happy Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. ______ is a person’s subjective sense that someone cares and can be depended on.
a. Empathy
b. Stability
c. Perceived stability
d. Perceived support
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Processes Underlying the Marriage–Health Link
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. A person who gets married while still married to someone else is committing the crime of ______.
a. bigamy
b. incest
c. infidelity
d. common law marriage
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The 1993 Hawaiian court case of Baehr v. Lewin determined for the first time that ______.
a. same-sex marriages performed in one state had to be legally recognized in all states
b. denying marriage to same-sex couples constituted discrimination based on sex and violated the state constitution’s equal protection guarantee
c. marriage is a fundamental right of all people and cannot be restricted on the basis of sexual preference
d. allowing marriage to same-sex couples was an infringement of religious liberties and therefore was forbidden according to separation of church and state
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Key Historical Turning Points in Same-Sex Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which marriage type is associated with strong extended kin networks and religious faith?
a. harmonious
b. vitalized
c. conflicted
d. traditional
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The ______ argument states that allowing same-sex marriage will normalize gay relationships and promote family values.
a. integrationist
b. assimilationist
c. segregationist
d. accommodationist
Learning Objective: 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Arguments For and Against Same-Sex Marriage
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Before the U.S. federally legalized same-sex marriage across the nation, how many states had legalized it?
a. 28
b. 18
c. 38
d. 48
Learning Objective: 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Arguments For and Against Same-Sex Marriage
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Domestic partnership laws grant all of the following rights EXCEPT ______.
a. federal disability and pension benefits
b. state sick care and family leave benefits
c. the ability to file a wrongful death suit
d. presumption that both partners are parents of children born to the union
Learning Objective: 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cohabitation and Common Law Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. The idea that groups are not equal and that hierarchy should be maintained is a social ______ orientation.
a. acceptance
b. distinction
c. status
d. dominance
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Dominance Beliefs and Interracial Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which statement describes a culture that privileges consanguineal relationships overmarital ones?
a. A culture in which the marital tie is considered more important than the kinship tie.
b. A culture in which the kinship tie is considered more important than the marital tie.
c. A culture in which men are considered more important than women.
d. A culture in which women are considered more important than men.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. A social marriage is most similar to a ______.
a. conflicted marriage
b. harmonious marriage
c. common law marriage
d. covenant marriage
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. A person who immigrates to a new country and adopts the ideas and values of the residents of that country is practicing ______.
a. social dominance orientation
b. marital assimilation
c. structural assimilation
d. cultural assimilation
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. A marriage in which family and community members choose several potential spouses but the young people make the final choice is a(n) ______.
a. assimilationist marriage
b. traditional arranged marriage
c. modified traditional arranged marriage
d. cooperative traditional arranged marriage
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Arranged Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. Which statement about marital infidelity is correct?
a. In the majority of cases, infidelity leads to divorce.
b. Women are more likely than men to be unfaithful.
c. Boredom is a good predictor of marital infidelity.
d. Over half of both men and women are unfaithful.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Infidelity
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. A marriage in which the spouses share the household tasks equally is a ______.
a. peer marriage
b. covenant marriage
c. feminist marriage
d. social marriage
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Peer Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Dyadic stress occurs when ______.
a. a stressor affects both partners equally and they both must cope with it in the same way
b. a stressor affects both partners equally and they must cope with it together in a given timeframe
c. a stressor affects both partners unequally and the unaffected partner must learn to cope
d. a stressor affects both partners unequally and the affected partner must learn to cope
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dyadic Coping
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. A protective buffering coping style occurs when one partner in a relationship ______.
a. initiates proactive ways to solve a problem
b. attempts to minimize the other partner’s stress
c. attempts to reframe the other partner’s stressor
d. temporarily takes over the other partner’s responsibilities
Learning Objective: 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dyadic Coping
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. The traditional arranged form of marriage refers to a union that follows traditional rules and procedures for how people can or should marry.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Virtually 90% of men and women in the U.S. today say they would never marry without love.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Specific Forms of Deinstitutionalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Cohabitation, or living together, is another increasing trend.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Specific Forms of Deinstitutionalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Enforceable trust is the idea that a formal, legal marriage creates a legal “trust,” which reduces the chances of divorce because the public ceremony makes the couple’s vows to each other harder to break.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Examining the Modern Institution of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. In a 20-year longitudinal study, marriage was found to protect people by lowering their risk of dying, in comparison to those who were never married, divorced, or widowed.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Differences in the Health Benefits of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The results of numerous studies using different types of samples in different geographical regions consistently show the benefits of marriage on health to be greater for men than for women.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Differences in the Health Benefits of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Perceived support refers to the number of available people or the number of acts of kindness performed.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Processes Underlying the Marriage–Health Link
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Received support refers to a real sense that someone cares, listens, and is there for you.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-2: Discuss the impact of marriage on biological health for men versus women. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Processes Underlying the Marriage–Health Link
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. In ancient Rome, even the poor had the right to formally marry.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriages Before Industrialization
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Marrying kin can also result in strong and healthy traits being reinforced and passed on to offspring, such as immunity to region-specific illnesses.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Kin Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Arranged marriages restrict a couple’s ability to divorce by having them enroll in premarital counseling, endure a long waiting period for divorce, and divorce only in extreme circumstances such as domestic violence, abandonment, and adultery.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Covenant Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Same-sex couples are not allowed to marry in most countries around the world.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contemporary Views of Same-Sex Marriage
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Consanguineal relationships occur where extended family and blood kin are more important and their needs are catered to more than those of the married couple.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Two of the most common problems people fear before getting married are money problems and blended families.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marital Problems
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. For lesbian couples with one partner transitioning to a male identity, they may find sexual attraction and relationship satisfaction diminish since the female partner is not attracted to men.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. In delegated dyadic coping, one partner takes over the other’s responsibilities when the first partner is feeling stressed.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dyadic Coping
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. As laws were enacted to prohibit marriage between blood relations in the early part of the 20th century, they also evolved to outlaw ______.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Interracial and Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. ______ is where the marital relationship is given priority and the extended family is expected to “butt out.”
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. In ______, a person decides to dress, act, speak, and practice daily rituals like those in the new host country.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In ______, immigrants intermarry with those from the new culture.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. ______ arranged marriage is one in which family and community members may choose several potential spouses but the young people are allowed to make the final choice.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Arranged Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. ______ arranged marriage is one in which the family and the young person have equal abilities to bring in potential spouses, and the final choice is agreed upon jointly.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Arranged Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. This refers to a partner keeping a secret financial life, such as private accounts, undisclosed debt, and personal credit cards.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them. | 7-6: Discuss processes and practices that are important for the maintenance of healthy relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Financial Infidelity
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. ______ is a brief form of therapy that helps couples outline their goals and align their expectations before getting married, in order to prevent divorce.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them. | 7-6: Discuss processes and practices that are important for the maintenance of healthy relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Premarital Counseling
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. ______ does not focus on childhood wounds or past conflicts. Therapists using this approach focus on the here-and-now of the relationship.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them. | 7-6: Discuss processes and practices that are important for the maintenance of healthy relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Premarital Counseling
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. In ______, these couples see childcare, housework, earning money, and power as things to be shared equally.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage. | 7-5: Identify common problems faced in marriage and how couples can prevent and solve them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Peer Marriages
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Explain at least two social trends associated with the deinstitutionalization of marriage. What effects do you think these trends have on society?
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain some of the factors that constitute the “deinstitutionalization” of marriage. | 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension | Analysis
Answer Location: Specific Forms of Deinstitutionalization
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Based on the various types of marriage described in Chapter 7, what do you think the function of marriage is? Does marriage serve societal goals or is its purpose personal fulfillment?
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension | Analysis
Answer Location: Types of Marriage
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. State the major arguments for and against same-sex marriage. Which argument seems most reasonable to you? Why?
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension | Analysis
Answer Location: Same-Sex Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Discuss some problems that can arise in interracial and intercultural marriages.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe some key historical changes that influenced current marriage beliefs and practices. | 7-4: Explain the benefits and disadvantages of various types of marriage, including the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension | Analysis
Answer Location: Interracial and Intercultural Marriages
Difficulty Level: Hard