FCS 205: Chapters 5-7 (with complete solution)

What does research say about how to choose a life partner? correct answers 1. Positive attitudes about the relationship 2. realistically positive assessments of a spouse's personality traits 3. Supportive interaction results in greater marital satisfaction. 4. Greater marital satisfaction, in turn, results in the greater likelihood of marital stability (staying married). What are the 3 things that love is not? correct answers 1. Martyring 2. Manipulating 3. Limerance Doing all one can for others while ignoring one's own legitimate needs by guilt tripping their partners because of their sacrifices correct answers Martyring Seeking to control the feelings, attitudes, and behavior of one's partner in underhanded ways rather than by assertively stating one's case correct answers Manipulating Individuals entering with personal and social characteristics and then bargain for the best "buy" that they can get when choosing a future spouse correct answers Marriage market Compare and contrast arranged and free-choice marriages correct answers In arranged marriages: Families and community do the bargaining Based on assets such as status, possessions, and dowry In freely chosen marriages: Individuals perform a more subtle form of bargaining Weigh the costs and benefits of personal characteristics, economic status, and education Both: Equal rate of satisfaction Why is the U.S. a free-choice culture? correct answers People choose their own mates Describe the nature of a culture that practices polygamy (What is it like?) correct answers 1. Controlling 2. Violent 3. Display fewer social and political freedoms than monogamous cultures 4. Spend more money on weapons Individuals gradually filter out those whom they think would not make the best spouse correct answers Assortative mating Describe the assortative mating filtering process correct answers 1. Pool of eligibles 2. Propinquity process 3. Demographic/Social filter 4. Physical attraction filter