Psych 3460 Practice Quiz 9

The hard-to-get effect can be hard to get because

All of these

Homosexual behaviors

All of these.

According to the sociocultural approach to mate selection, once women have direct access to economic power women prefer

Attractive men with nice personalities because that's what's attractive

Denise and Brandon are just getting to know each other. Each compliments how the other one looks. Given the research on men, women, and sexuality, which of the outcomes is most likely?

Brandon will interpret Denise's compliment as a sexual come-on.

Which of the following MOST accurately represents differences in mating preferences?

Differences found between the sexes regarding mating preferences are small compared to the similarities in their mating preferences.

Marcie and Karl have been married for several years. Marcie is unhappy in her marriage and is trying to decide whether or not to leave Karl. Which of the following would encourage her the most to leave the marriage?

Her comparison level for alternatives is high.

Which of the following is consistent with the evolutionary account of mate selection?

In personal ads, women tend to offer beauty and men offer wealth.

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding Kenrick et al. (1993) findings in a study of college students' standards of intelligence for a partner in a one-night stand, a sexual partner, a single date, or a marriage partner?

Men had higher standards for a one-night stand than for a date.

Equity is illustrated in which of the following benefits/contributions ratios?

Partner X 20/40; Partner y 50/100

Which of the following is most accurate regarding the human need for affiliation?

People are motivated to maintain an optimum balance of time alone and social contact.

Which of the following is consistent with the mere exposure effect?

The more we see someone, the greater the attraction.

Which of the following is NOT a reason why we seem to be attracted to averaged faces?

They look unusual.

Which of the following BEST reflects the benefits and cost of being attractive?

While attractiveness often brings a social advantage to attractive individuals, it can cause them to doubt the sincerity of others' praise for their work.

Your significant other has just been short-tempered and impatient with you. Your reaction is to think, ?well, s/he's had a very stressful week, so I'll just forget that it happened.? Your reaction would be best described as an example of

a relationship-enhancing attribution.

Which curve best describes the relationship between attitude similarity and attraction?

a straight upward-sloping line suggesting that as similarity increases, attraction increases

The finding that infants spend more time looking at attractive, as compared to unattractive, faces supports the hypothesis that

beauty is objective.

According to social exchange theory, an outcome from a relationship will produce satisfaction if it falls above a person's

comparison level.

Over time romantic love tends to ________ in love marriages and ________ in arranged marriages.

decline; increase

Rosenbaum (1986) argues that social psychologists overestimate the role of attitudinal similarity in attraction, and suggests that it is not that similarity creates attraction but that

dissimilarity produces interpersonal repulsion.

Which theory views male jealousy as springing from the importance of insuring that children are their biological offspring?

evolutionary

In their relationship, Clyde is concerned with maintaining an equal ratio of rewards and costs, whereas Bonnie is concerned with being responsive to Clyde's needs. Clyde views their relationship as a(n) ______ relationship, whereas Bonnie views it as a(n) ______ relationship.

exchange; communal

Bruno just finished working out at the gym. On his way to the locker room, he passes Charmaigne, a very pretty woman. Bruno feels his heart pounding and is convinced that he must be in love with Charmaigne. Bruno's feelings are best explained by

excitation transfer.

After a two-week whirlwind romance, Barbie and Ken fly to Vegas to marry. In the framework of the triangular theory of love, Barbie and Ken's love would be categorized as

fatuous

An evolutionary perspective on attraction suggests that people prefer mates who will

favor the conception and birth of their offspring.

Switching back and forth between heterosexual and homosexual forms of sexuality is apparently more common among women than it is among men. This is an example of the fact that women tend to __________ than men.

have greater erotic plasticity.

Bartholomew describes individuals with secure attachment and dismissing/avoidant attachment as SIMILAR in that both types of individuals

have positive views of the self

The identical twins of those with a homosexual orientation experience _______ rates of homosexual orientation than fraternal twins of those with a homosexual orientation.

higher

Brian is passionately attracted to Teresa. He has no strong commitment to her and doesn?t feel much intimacy with her. According to triangular theory of love Brian is feeling

infatuated love

A homosexual orientation is

likely a result of a combination of psychological, biological, & cultural factors

A feeling of deprivation about existing social relations is called

loneliness

According to social exchange theory, an individual's primary motive in establishing and maintaining relationships is

maximizing rewards and minimizing costs.

Carly hurls an insult right back at James when James expresses his negative feelings toward her. Such a pattern illustrates

negative affect reciprocity.

The idea that some faces are inherently more attractive than others is supported by research demonstrating that

people prefer averaged composite faces to individual faces.

According to your textbook, the single best predictor of whether two people will get together is

physical proximity.

Equity theory predicts that people are most satisfied in their relationships when the

rewards and costs one partner experiences are roughly equal to those of the other partner.

Eileen says she loves Jesse, even though they met very recently and both of them are still dating other people. When her best friend asks her what she means by "love". Eileen says, "I feel like even though we just met, I could tell him anything in the world. And he's so sexy. I get butterflies just thinking about him." According to the triangular theory of love, Eileen's feelings towards Jesse would best be labeled

romantic love.

Conchita has good relationships with her boyfriend and with her parents. She is also able to form caring and supportive friendships. Conchita probably has a(n)

secure attachment style.

Bonita and Helga are asked to list people they "love," people they are "in love with," and people they are "sexually attracted to." It is likely that the names on

the in love and sexually attracted to lists will overlap considerably.

Researchers use the phrase erotic plasticity to suggest that

women are more likely to change sexual preference over time than men.