Marriage & Family Mid Term
AIDS was first identified in what year?
1981
Okay, women compost ___ percent of Congress
20
About _____ percent of all American children are expected too live in a single parent household at some point in their lives
25
Individuals living alone constitute about ______ percent of American households.
27
Individuals living alone now make up __________ percent of U.S. households.
27
In 2011, nearly ____ percent of cohabitating couples lived with children under 18-either their own or those from a previous relationship or marriage
40
Today, only about __________ percent of American households fit the 1950s nuclear family ideal of a married couple with children, where only the husband is employed.
5
About ____ percent of Americans say that they favor legal mariage for same sex couples
60
By 2013 it was estimated that _________ percent of U.S. women aged 19 through 44 had ever cohabited.
65
Almost __________ percent of young adults say they believe in "one true love."
75
according to the text, women full-time employees earn ___ percent for what employed of what employed men do
79
Research suggest several qualities to look for when choosing a spouse. Which of the following is NOT one of those qualities?
A physically attractive, healthy person
The text cites four social factors that may encourage young people today to postpone marriage or not too marry at all. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A rejection of marriage as an institution
Men are expected to have _________ character traits like strength, self-confidence, assertiveness, and ambition.
Agentic
________ are the most likely of all ethic/racial categories to intermarry
American Indians
In 1957, the total fertility rate was about 3.6 children per woman. For the last 25 years it has been ______ child/children per woman
Around two
Children receive most of their sexual knowledge ___
At home from mothers and female family members
The ____ perspective argues that human physiology, genetics and hormones predispose individuals to certain behaviors
Biosocial
Arranged marriage has been the tradition in ____ societies, where decisions are made based on strong extended families
Collectivist
In Robert Sternberg's typology ____ live s composed of all three dimensions of his theory
Consummate
The 1990's saw the emergence of a new brand of marital infidelity; adultery on the net, or ____
Digital infidelity
According to the __ perspective, dating couples chose either to stay committed or to break up b y weighing the rewards of their relationship against its costs
Exchange
_____ theory suggests that people tend to marry others whose social currency- social class, education, physical attractiveness-is similar to their own
Exchange
Representative samples are important to family survey research because the results can be ___ to the national population of the sample
Generalized
More than ___ of all non marital births occur to cohabiting couples
Half
Americans tend to mary people of similar race, age, education, religious background, social class. This behavior reflects
Homogamy
Exchange theory stresses the importance of in family relationships
How family members use their resources to trade with other family members
The proportion of Middle-aged cohabitera has ___ over the past two decades
Increased
According to the ____ perspective children develop self-concepts on feedback from those around them.
Interaction-constructionist
Which of the following is true about the age at marriage today?
It is the highest recorded since the 1890 census.
The text reports that, after age, _____ was the second largest predictor of self frequency
Marital satisfaction
Children are __________ likely than the general population or the elderly to be living in poverty.
More
In 2014, ___ percent of young adults aged 18-24 lived with their parent s
More than 50
In ____ the researcher spends extensive time with respondents and carefully records their activities, conversations, gestures, and other aspects of every day life
Naturalistic observation
Quickest to develop and fastest too fade
Passion
As the age of puberty has declined, the age at marriage has ___________
Risen
Cohabitating couples are ____ as likely as married to be interracial
Twice
Social scientist Ira Reiss has proposed what he calls a "_____ theory" of love
Wheel
Contemporary sexism denies that gender discrimination persists and includes the belief that women
are asking for too much
Of the components of consummate love, which is the most gradual to develop?
commitment
A _______ is a situation or place characterized by group living
commune
In the exchange perspective, what a person expects out of a relationship is referred to as
comparison level
A legally or policy-defined relationship between two individuals who live together and share a domestic life but are not married is called a
domestic partnership
Jane married a man from her own social group. Her marital behavior illustrates
endogamy
According to the wheel of love theory, there are four stages in the development of love. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
erotic
Family togetherness, stability, and loyalty are all examples of
familistic (communal) values
Scholars and advocates with a __________ perspective argue that we need to view the family from a historical standpoint
family change
Research finds that black couples prefer more role ____ and power sharing than whites
flexibility
Dorothy perceives herself as being ultra-feminine, based on society's definitions of appropriate gender roles. Dorothy's perceptions are linked to her
gender identity
Propinquity is also known as
geographic availability
Differences will arise in a satisfying long-term relationship because no two individuals ___________.
have exactly the same points of view
Confidence, assertiveness, and ambition can be classified as __________ character traits.
instrumental
The _______ model of sexual satisfaction explores the costs and rewards of a sexual relationship
interpersonal exchange
In 1967, in the case Loving V. Virginia the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
interracial marriage must be considered legally valid in all states.
An emerging alternative to marriage is __________, where a couple is engaged in a long-term relationship, but each partner also maintains a separate dwelling.
living apart together
John Alan Lee classified six
love styles
Most mainstream pornography can be considered _________, exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust or general disregard for women.
misogynistic
Compared to married couples, cohabitors are all EXCEPT which of the following?
more sexually conservative
The likelihood of divorce declines with _____
more years of education
A feminine expectation that has emerged over the past thirty years is that of the "__________ woman," who is independent, ambitious, and self-confident.
professional
One of the most striking changes over the past several decades has been the emergence of _____ issues as political controversies
sexual; reproductive
Statistics on women in politics highlight that women - who make up over 50 percent of the U.S. population - are ________ in high government positions.
significantly underrepresented
The process by which society influences members to internalize attitudes and expectations is called
socialization
Psychologist Robert Sternberg proposed a __________ theory of love.
triangular
A majority of children live in __________ households.
two parent
Images of men as instrumental and women as expressive are based on
white, middle-class heterosexuals.
