FMST 314 Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
How many people are married - ✔✔Just over half of people
- trend: fewer people are married than ever before (used to be 98% of people are
married)
- trend: people are now waiting longer to marry
Companiont love - ✔✔Intimacy + commitment
How many people are common law - ✔✔16%
- trend: this is an increasing percentage
What does it mean to be common law - ✔✔You live in a marriage like relationship
but you don't have a marriage licence
eg. living together
How many people are never married - ✔✔16%
How many people are separated or divorced - ✔✔7%
- trend: half of marriages end in divorce
--> this is an increasing number (2.5x higher than before)
,How many people are widowed - ✔✔1%
Need to belong - ✔✔Humans are driven by nature to develop and maintain close
relationships (there is a human need to belong)
- typically, we only need a few high quality connections to fulfill our needs for
belonging (quality over quantity)
- humans are generally happier and healthier when we feel connected to others
- note: belonging is evolutionary
** our wellbeing depends on how well we satisfy our need to belong
Singlism - ✔✔Discrimination or negative attitudes toward people who are single
Technoference - ✔✔When technology interrupts or interferes with face-to-face
interactions
What are the characteristics of intimacy - ✔✔Will have at least one of these
characteristics:
1. Knowledge
2. Caring
3. Interdependence
4. Trust
,5. Responsiveness
6. Mutuality
7. Commitment
Knowledge - ✔✔possess extensive personal information about each other
eg. past, feelings, desires, preferences
Caring - ✔✔two people care about one another and feel more affection toward
each other than for other people, having a deeper concern for a specific person
Interdependence - ✔✔the extent to which people need and influence each other
- this need is frequent, strong, diverse, and ongoing
- one's behaviour affects other's as well as oneself
Trust - ✔✔the expectation of being treated fairly and not harmed, assuming
someone will treat us fairly
Responsiveness - ✔✔recognizing, supporting, and reacting to another's needs
- expectation that one's partner will understand, respect, and appreciate them
- powerfully rewarding
, Mutuality - ✔✔recognizing their close connection and thinking of themselves as a
partnership instead of individuals
- "us" rather than "me" and "you"
- acknolweding a couple's attachment to each other
commitment - ✔✔the expectation that the partnership will continue, the
expectation there will be a future for the relationship
- this means investing time and effort in order to support a future
culture - ✔✔- political environment
- country of origin
- group of people interacting with each other
- programs
- neighbourhoods
can heavily influence our relationships by changing the way we thing, gender
expectations and norms, etc.
- define what we consider normal
- eg. before people felt like they had to get married, now it's view of more as a
choice
phubbing - ✔✔one partner snubs (ignores) another by focusing on a phone
How many people are married - ✔✔Just over half of people
- trend: fewer people are married than ever before (used to be 98% of people are
married)
- trend: people are now waiting longer to marry
Companiont love - ✔✔Intimacy + commitment
How many people are common law - ✔✔16%
- trend: this is an increasing percentage
What does it mean to be common law - ✔✔You live in a marriage like relationship
but you don't have a marriage licence
eg. living together
How many people are never married - ✔✔16%
How many people are separated or divorced - ✔✔7%
- trend: half of marriages end in divorce
--> this is an increasing number (2.5x higher than before)
,How many people are widowed - ✔✔1%
Need to belong - ✔✔Humans are driven by nature to develop and maintain close
relationships (there is a human need to belong)
- typically, we only need a few high quality connections to fulfill our needs for
belonging (quality over quantity)
- humans are generally happier and healthier when we feel connected to others
- note: belonging is evolutionary
** our wellbeing depends on how well we satisfy our need to belong
Singlism - ✔✔Discrimination or negative attitudes toward people who are single
Technoference - ✔✔When technology interrupts or interferes with face-to-face
interactions
What are the characteristics of intimacy - ✔✔Will have at least one of these
characteristics:
1. Knowledge
2. Caring
3. Interdependence
4. Trust
,5. Responsiveness
6. Mutuality
7. Commitment
Knowledge - ✔✔possess extensive personal information about each other
eg. past, feelings, desires, preferences
Caring - ✔✔two people care about one another and feel more affection toward
each other than for other people, having a deeper concern for a specific person
Interdependence - ✔✔the extent to which people need and influence each other
- this need is frequent, strong, diverse, and ongoing
- one's behaviour affects other's as well as oneself
Trust - ✔✔the expectation of being treated fairly and not harmed, assuming
someone will treat us fairly
Responsiveness - ✔✔recognizing, supporting, and reacting to another's needs
- expectation that one's partner will understand, respect, and appreciate them
- powerfully rewarding
, Mutuality - ✔✔recognizing their close connection and thinking of themselves as a
partnership instead of individuals
- "us" rather than "me" and "you"
- acknolweding a couple's attachment to each other
commitment - ✔✔the expectation that the partnership will continue, the
expectation there will be a future for the relationship
- this means investing time and effort in order to support a future
culture - ✔✔- political environment
- country of origin
- group of people interacting with each other
- programs
- neighbourhoods
can heavily influence our relationships by changing the way we thing, gender
expectations and norms, etc.
- define what we consider normal
- eg. before people felt like they had to get married, now it's view of more as a
choice
phubbing - ✔✔one partner snubs (ignores) another by focusing on a phone
