PSY 395 Examination 2
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PSY 395 Examination Two
Question 1
Historically, the study of relationships was not appropriate for scientific study.
Select one:
True
False
Question 2
Recent research has shown that relationships can be studied and systematically analyzed.
Select one:
True
False
Question 3
Which of the follow best describes the effect of the “Boston Couples Study?”
Select one:
a. Gay relationships.
b. How living together can adversely affect relationships.
c. The effects of longitudinal studies on relationships.
d. Sex and marriage
e. The effect of children on relationships
Question 4
__ means that participants must be told of the nature of participation in studies.
Select one:
a. Informed consent.
b. Rights of individuals.
c. Open forum.
d. Continued understanding.
e. Freedom of information act
Question 5
The act of predicting attitudes/events across other samples of people is called:
Select one:
a. Cross-validation.
b. Actuarial prediction
c. Continuum referencing.
d. Infrastructural differences.
e. no items here are correct
Question 6
Which of the following best describes the notion of “systems” approach to relationships?
Select one:
a. Unsettledness in a person will produce the same in another person.
b. all of the above or below answers are correct.
c. networking with the legal system
d. Success in one person causes duress in another.
e. One change in a person can affect the whole relationship.
Comments
Comment:
Question 7
____ is a network of constructs connected by causal statements.
Select one:
a. no items here are correct
b. A differential.
c. A hypothesis
d. A Heuristic.
e. A system.
Question 8
The “dependent variable” is generally caused by the “independent variable.”
Select one:
True
False
Question 9
Longitudinal studies:
Select one:
a. A study using aging stratification.
b. A study measured over different time-spans.
c. A study measured over one point in time.
d. Comparing different genders only.
e. A study comparing same sex individuals.
Question 10
Qualitative research:
Select one:
a. Involves experimental studies.
b. envolves both experimentation and interpretation.
c. Involves observation.
d. Involves interpretation.
Comments
Comment:
Question 11
Qualitative research generally is conducted with a “point of view.”
Select one:
True
False
Question 12
Westermarck Hypothesis:
Select one:
a. Aversion to sexual relations with familiar persons.
b. Economics and happiness.
c. showed no relationship between wealth and health
d. no items here are correct
e. Individual attraction to physical characteristics.
Question 13
According to the text, was Westermarck correct in his assumptions?
Select one:
True
False
Question 14
Who developed the formula B= f(P,E.?
Select one:
a. Thompson
b. Lewin
c. Wolf.
d. Freud.
e. Skinner.
Question 15
In the formula B= f(P,E., “B” represents:
Select one:
a. Branch.
b. Behavior.
c. Brother.
d. Belonging.
e. Bereavement.
Question 16
The “interaction-episode” involves a unlimited span of time.
Select one:
True
False
Question 17
It has been found that relationships involve the interaction between two or more people.
Select one:
True
False
Comments
Comment:
Question 18
As defined in the text, “kin” is persons joined by blood or legal contracts.
Select one:
True
False
Question 19
Which of the following best describes the “traditional marriage?”
Select one:
a. Roles are defined by the courts.
b. Roles are allocated on the bases of sex.
c. Each spouse share roles.
d. Roles are disregarded.
Question 20
Select one:
a. Interpersonal influence.
b. Relationship infrastructure.
c. Open marriages.
d. Closed marriages.
Question 21
“Dyadic reciprocity”=
Select one:
a. no items here are correct
b. Using friends to communicate.
c. Two partners both are responding to each other in unique way.
d. Two partners are responding separately
e. Two partners are responding to each other only through the help of another.
Question 22
Who was/is responsible for the use of sequential analysis in relationship research?
Select one:
a. Westermarck.
b. Wolf.
c. Carter.
d. Gottman
e. Lewin.
Question 23
Relationship researchers have not developed, as of yet, a method to reliably assess interdependence and/or that two people are in a relationship
Select one:
True
False
Question 24
Which of the following best describes the “traditional family?”
Select one:
a. Family Ties.
b. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
c. all of the above or below answers are correct.
d. Happy Days.
Question 25
Possibly the greatest change in the institution of marriage is the increase in divorce.
Select one:
True
False
Question 26
Since colonial time, the divorce rate has been increasing __ percent.
Select one:
a. 250
b. 100.
c. 50
d. 700
e. 300
Question 27
In the early 1990’s, divorce is the highest that it has ever been.
Select one:
True
False
Question 28
This is often referred to as someone who has experienced at least three marriages.
Select one:
a. Serial marriages.
b. all answers on this item are correct
c. Loose marriages.
d. Recurrent marriages.
e. Matrix marriages.
Question 29
According to the text, cohabitation has been on the decline recently.
Select one:
True
False
Question 30
Who is most likely to get a divorce?
Select one:
a. Those who cohabit then marry.
b. Those who do not cohabit then marry.
Question 31
____ refers to an interactive process in which the individual comes to feel understood and validated.
Select one:
a. Attachment.
b. Self-worth.
c. Intimacy.
d. Closeness.
e. Togetherness.
Question 32
According to the text, people are waiting longer to marry.
Select one:
True
False
Question 33
Interestingly, single-parent families are on the decrease.
Select one:
True
False
Question 34
In the early 1900’s, single parent families were generally a result of:
Select one:
a. death of a spouse.
b. divorce.
c. infidelity.
Question 35
Recent research has shown that divorce has little, if any, effect on the children.
Select one:
True
False
Question 36
This term refers to the “ratio of facilitating to interfering and conflictful events in a relationship.
Select one:
a. networking with the legal system
b. Communal inferences.
c. Relationship suffices
d. Relationship compatibility
e. Team-congeniality.
Question 37
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According to the text, healthy relationships:
Select one:
a. give and take.
b. evaluate and judge.
c. use and take.
d. evaluate and decide.
e. maintain and promote.
Question 38
Of the five basic domains discussed in the textbook, this domain refers to “the management of interests.”
Select one:
a. Reciprocity.
b. Attachment theory.
c. Coalitioinal groups.
d. Hierarchical power.
e. Application matrix.
Question 39
_____ percent of all American households own a companion animal.
Select one:
a. 85
b. 90
c. 58
d. 75
e. 25
Question 40
According to the text, Americans are loosing interesting in pets and buying fewer and fewer animals.
Select one:
True
False
Question 41
The grief felt upon the death of a companion animal is an example of ___.
Select one:
a. disenfranchised grief.
b. structural grief.
c. no items here are correct
d. outsourse-grief.
e. initial grief.
Question 42
According to the text, there are very very few varieties of relationships.
Select one:
True
False
Question 43
It has been shown that prayer has help people with health problems.
Select one:
True
False
Question 44
Ethical considerations are an important factor when doing relationship research.
Select one:
True
False
Question 45
According to the text, MRA is best described as:
Select one:
a. Multiple revenue association.
b. no items here are correct.
c. Marriage reconsideration and analysis.
d. Multiple regression analysis.
Question 46
According to the text, every person has habits or sequences of actions emitted as a single unit.
Select one:
True
False
Question 47
According to the text, most individuals express a desire to marry.
Select one:
True
False
Question 48
According to the text, interracial relationships have been on the decrease.
Select one:
True
False
Question 49
Which state voted to retain and 1890 law that makes it a crime for unmarried couples to live together?
Select one:
a. Oregon.
b. Ohio.
c. Montana.
d. South Dakota.
e. no items here are correct
Question 50
Cohabitation is higher in Sweden than in the United States.
Select one:
True
False