Question 1

Men who place a personal ad that emphasizes their income and education

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A)   receive more responses to their ads.
B)   receive fewer responses to their ads.
C)   are rated as less desirable by women.
D)   are more likely to attract unattractive women.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 2

Is there a difference in terms of which gender tends to fall more readily in love?

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A)   Yes, women fall more readily in love.
B)   Yes, men fall more readily in love.
C)   No, both genders tend to fall in love equally as quickly.
D)   No, both genders take appropriate time to fall in love.E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

According to the text, passionate love is

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A)   a state of intense longing for union with another.
B)   emotional.
C)   feeling ecstatic at attaining your partner's love and feeling devastated on losing it.
D)   all of these choices.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 4

The fact that people prefer letters appearing in their own name illustrates

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A)   the belongingness effect.
B)   the proximity effect.
C)   the mere-exposure effect.
D)   the matching effect.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 5

Those involved in relationships marked by long-term equity

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A)   depend on tit-for-tat exchanges.
B)   are unconcerned with short-term equity.
C)   make sure they reciprocate favours as soon as possible.
D)   None of these choices.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 6

Men everywhere tend to marry younger women. Evolutionary psychologists believe that it shows natural selection predisposes men to feel attracted to female features associated with

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A)   beauty.
B)   external appearance.
C)   physical shape.
D)   fertility.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 7

Bill and Sara's relationship becomes progressively more intimate as each engages in a bit more self-revelation in response to the other's self-disclosure. Their relationship is marked by the _______________ effect.

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A)   disclosure reciprocity
B)   mutual disinhibition
C)   reciprocal disinhibition
D)   reciprocal intimacyE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

Identify and describe what the four main attachment styles are and how these are manifest in adult intimate relationships.

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Question 9

Research by Aronson and Linder (1965)  suggests that more often than not, we like people more if they

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A)   consistently evaluate us positively.
B)   reverse an earlier criticism and come to evaluate us positively.
C)   consistently give us ingratiating feedback.
D)   consistently give us constructive criticism.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 10

According to research, women are more likely to think about ____________ aspects of the relationship, where as men tend to think about ___________ aspect of the relationship.

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A)   intimacy of the friendship and their concern for their partners; the playful and physical aspects
B)   intimacy; friendship
C)   the external; the internal
D)   none of these choicesE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Jen is more in love with Stan today than the day she married him. According to research on the relationship between love and perceived attractiveness,

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A)   Jen probably finds Stan to be more attractive today than the day she married him.
B)   Jen probably finds Stan to be less attractive today than the day she married him.
C)   Stan probably finds Jen less attractive today than the day he married her.
D)   Stan and Jen probably see each other as equally attractive.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 12

Researchers provide men and women students with various pieces of information about someone of the other sex, including a picture of the person or a brief introduction, and later ask them how interested they are in dating the participant. Results show that

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A)   women are as influenced by a man's looks as men are by a woman's.
B)   men are somewhat more influenced by a woman's looks than women are by a man's.
C)   women are somewhat more influenced by a man's looks than men are by a woman's.
D)   men are influenced by a woman's looks, while women are not influenced at all by a man's looks.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

Elaine Hatfield and her coworkers matched University of Minnesota freshmen for a Welcome Week computer dance. When the students were asked to evaluate their dates, what determined whether they liked each other?

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A)   similarity of values
B)   similarity of academic competence
C)   physical attractiveness
D)   common family backgroundE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

Clifford and Hatfield showed fifth-grade teachers identical information about a boy or girl, with the photograph attached of an attractive or unattractive child. The teachers judged _____ as being _____.

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A)   attractive children; more honest and concerned about others
B)   unattractive children; more independent and assertive
C)   attractive children; more intelligent and successful in school
D)   unattractive children; less popular but probably harder workers and better studentsE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 15

Our tendency to like those we perceive as liking us is influenced by which of the following factors?

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A)   Our attributions for why they seem to like us
B)   The degree of complementarity that exists between us and them
C)   The degree of exposure to them
D)   Their demographic uniquenessE) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 16

Hatfield gave university women evaluations, affirming the self-esteem of some and wounding others with negative evaluations. Each participant was then asked to evaluate a man who had earlier asked her for a date. Women whose evaluations had been _____ expressed ________ the man.

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A)   positive; more liking of
B)   negative; more liking of
C)   positive; more hostility toward
D)   negative; more hostility towardE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

If Taline wanted to increase the likelihood that her teacher would like Taline's essay, she could use the mere-exposure effect in this way:

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A)   Make sure that the teacher graded a really good paper before she read Taline's essay.
B)   Make sure that the teacher graded a really bad paper before she read Taline's essay.
C)   Ask her teacher to proofread her paper a few days before the teacher reads it for grading.
D)   None of these choices.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 18

The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a "good match" in attractiveness and other traits defines the

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A)   attractiveness phenomenon.
B)   matching phenomenon.
C)   mere exposure effect.
D)   None of the aboveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

Rachel notices that the woman ahead of her in line at the grocery store is the same woman who she saw at the mailbox that morning. The next day on her way to work Rachel sees the same woman coming out of the new apartment building across the street. According to ___________, Rachel has a good chance of ______________ this woman.

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A)   the reward theory of attraction; becoming a romantic rival of
B)   the idea of functional distance; becoming friends with
C)   the contrast effect; comparing herself to this woman
D)   the derived emotion theory; feeling good when she seesE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 20

Physically dominant males gain more access to females. Over many generations this has served to enhance male aggression and dominance. This is an explanation of sex differences in behaviour favoured by

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A)   aggression theorists.
B)   anthropologists.
C)   biological psychologists.
D)   evolutionary psychologists.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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Research by Aronson and Linder (1965) suggests that more often than not, we like people more if they

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Men everywhere tend to marry younger women. Evolutionary psychologists believe that it shows natural selection predisposes men to feel attracted to female features associated with

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