Ch. 7 Relationships
Which of the following characteristics would one think is attractive, regardless of what culture he or she is from?
blemish-free skin
Romantic love was evolutionarily advantageous because it...
brought parents closer together ti sure survival of the child
Jeremiah has moved around to ten different states in the United States within five years due to his job. This means that, compared to someone who has not moved around at all before, Jeremiah will...
buy more things from national chain stores.
Marina is going on a first date with someone who has moved to many different cities in the last few years. Marina's date will like her the most if she...
dislikes local coffee shops in favor of national chain ones.
Empirically, arranged marriages are terrible because no one is ever satisfied with their marriages. True or false?
False—arranged marriages that last over ten years have greater marital satisfaction than love marriages.
Lumusi is a Ghanaian teenager who reports having more enemies than does her American counterpart, Lisa. According to research discussed in the textbook on Ghana, which of the following explains why Lumusi reports having more enemies than Lisa?
Ghanaians are less likely to choose their relationship partners.
What is Adams's argument for why West Africans are more concerned about enemies than North Americans?
North Americans only create relationships if they stand to benefit from them, and enemies are not a benefit to them.
Four single Japanese people are participating in a dating TV show. Three of them serve as targets, and they each spend time with the remaining person (the chooser). The chooser must then decide which person he or she wants to date. Which of the following people is the chooser most likely to choose?
Regardless of gender, the chooser will choose the person with the most bilateral facial symmetry.
Romantic love, discussed within the context of monogamous human relationships in the textbook, exists because it was evolutionarily advantageous for our ancestors. True or false?
True—more children from parents who experienced romantic love survived to pass on their genes, compared to parents without romantic love.
Which of the following people would NOT be considered universally to be physically attractive?
a person with an average-size body
An example of communal sharing is...
an office with a jar of coins, where workers can take or put in as many coins as they like.
Sending your boss a Christmas card after he had first sent you one would best be seen as an example of...
equality matching
Because Juan Daniel, who is Latin American, scores very highly on a measure of simpático...
he socializes with people more than his European-American friends do.
The founder of a new society wants to create a social system in which arranged marriages are the norm, rather than love marriages. In order for this founder to be successful, which of the following must this new society have?
large kin groups with strong ties within them
You and a friend run into each other on the street, and you see that he is carrying a fish that he has just caught. You would love to get that fish home and cook it to make your wife happy. You and your friend agree that the fish is equivalent to the corn you are carrying in your bag. The two of you then exchange the fish for the corn before heading off to your respective homes. What is this an example of?
market pricing
Which of the following products or services does NOT capitalize on universal bases of attraction?
photo-editing software that can mix different body shapes together
Romantic love is...
something that appears to exist in all cultures.