Question: Jodi and Whitney have been married for 10 years. Francis and Todd have just gone on their fourth date. The marriage benefit would predict that
Answer Options: a) Jodi and Whitney have better overall well-being. b) Jodi and Whitney have a more exciting social life. c) Francis and Todd have a more exciting social life. d) Francis and Todd have better overall well-being.
Answer: a) Jodi and Whitney have better overall well-being.
Question: Janet often encounters John at school. As a result, they end up becoming friends. This scenario illustrates how __________ influences interpersonal attraction.
Answer Options: a) physical attractiveness b) mere exposure c) reciprocity d) equity
Answer: b) mere exposure
Question: In a study conducted by Aron and his colleagues (2000), married couples engaged in one of two tasks: either they were tied together with Velcro and required to move a soft ball positioned between their heads across a long mat, or they each had to push a ball on their own across the mat with a stick. Couples in the first condition reported higher marital satisfaction after completing the task compared to couples in the second condition. How did the researchers interpret these results?
Answer Options: a) The first task was more challenging, leading couples to feel more pride after completing it. b) The first task encouraged participants to capitalize on the good in their relationship. c) The first task was more arousing, leading to a misattribution of arousal to feelings about one’s partner. d) The first task made couples physically closer, which led them to feel psychologically closer.
Answer: c) The first task was more arousing, leading to a misattribution of arousal to feelings about one’s partner.
Question: According to the textbook, there are three main predictors of attraction. Which of the following is NOT one of these three predictors?
Answer Options: a) physical attractiveness b) attachment c) proximity d) similarity
Answer: b) attachment
Question: Happier couples tend to attribute their partners’ positive behaviors to
Answer Options: a) stable causes that are general, intended, and selfless. b) stable causes that are general, unintended, and selfless. c) unstable causes that are general, unintended, and selfless. d) unstable causes that are specific, unintended, and selfish.
Answer: a) stable causes that are general, intended, and selfless.
Question: Which of the following is NOT evidence for the need to belong?
Answer Options: a) Mortality rates are higher for divorced, unmarried, and widowed individuals. b) Prisoners tend to be happier when they focus on their preexisting family ties rather than forming kinship-like ties with other prisoners. c) Partnered gay men and women are happier than single gay men and women. d) Suicide rates are higher for single and divorced individuals.
Answer: b) Prisoners tend to be happier when they focus on their preexisting family ties rather than forming kinship-like ties with other prisoners.
Question: Which of the following pieces of evidence supports Eagly and Wood’s perspective that gender differences in mate preferences are driven by culture rather than evolution?
Answer Options: a) Across cultures, men tend to value physical attractiveness more than women. b) The greater the gender equality in a given society, the less importance women place on earning capacity in a potential mate. c) The greater the gender equality in a given society, the less importance women place on physical attractiveness in a potential mate. d) The greater the gender equality in a given society, the more importance women place on earning capacity in a potential mate.
Answer: b) The greater the gender equality in a given society, the less importance women place on earning capacity in a potential mate.
Question: The strongest support for the claim that we have a need to belong comes from the finding that
Answer Options: a) when we lose a friendship, we do not seek out new friendships. b) relationship styles vary among cultures. c) relationships are vital to our physical and mental well-being. d) only humans form long-lasting relationships.
Answer: c) relationships are vital to our physical and mental well-being.
Question: Social psychologists have used the bogus stranger paradigm, in which they present the personality characteristics of a person (who is actually made up) to the participants to study the effects of __________ on liking.
Answer Options: a) physical attractiveness b) intelligence c) similarity d) proximity
Answer: c) similarity
Question: Recall that Ainsworth classified the attachment patterns of infants according to how they responded to separations and reunions with their caregivers. Which of the following is NOT one of the styles she specified?
Answer Options: a) anxious-ambivalent b) communal c) secure d) avoidant
Answer: b) communal