FMST 314 Midterm Exam #1 Questions with correct
answers
Six Components of Intimacy - ✔✔1. Knowledge
2. Caring
3. Interdependence
4. Mutuality
5. Trust
6. Commitment
The Need to Belong - ✔✔Powerful drive to establish intimate connections to
others
Causes of Cultural Changes - ✔✔1. Increasing socioeconomic development
2. Increasing individualism
3. New technology
Sex Ratio - ✔✔# of men/# of women
- High = sexually conservative, traditional roles
- Low = permissive, encourage working women
Attachment Styles - ✔✔1. Secure = trusting/relaxed
2. Anxious-Ambivalent = nervous/clingy
3. Avoidant = suspicious/withdrawn
,*Attachment styles are LEARNED through experience
Influences of Individual Differences - ✔✔1. Sex Differences (biological)
- NOT as much as expected
2. Gender Differences (social/psychological)
- Masculine = instrumental
- Feminine = expressive
- Androgynous = mix of both
The Big Five (Personalities) - ✔✔1. Agreeableness (cooperative/trusting)
2. Extraversion (outgoing/sociable)
3. Consciensciousness (dependable)
4. Neuroticism *MOST INFLUENCIAL
5. Openness
Sociometer Theory - ✔✔SELF-ESTEEM as gauge for measuring quality of
relationship with others
("When others like us, we like ourselves")
What DOESN'T influence relationship intimacy? - ✔✔Sexual Orientation
- Homo/hetero sexual couples similar in processes of relationships
3 Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology - ✔✔1. Natural selection has sculpted
our species (sexual selection/adaptation)
, 2. Men/women differ only to extent that they have faced different reproductive
dilemmas
3. Cultures change FASTER than human nature; culture determines whether
certain behaviours are adaptive
Gender Different Reproductive Dilemmas - ✔✔1. Parental investment
- Women more selective, more time/effort put in
2. Paternity uncertainty - Men never know if it is his child
- Men more attracted to "available women"
4 Sources of Developing a Question - ✔✔1. Personal Experience
2. Social Problems
3. Previous Research
4. Theories
How to obtain participants - ✔✔1. Convenience sample (MOST common) = readily
available
2. Representative sample = group that resembles entire population of interest
*Volunteer bias: of invited, those who agree may be different from entire
3 Types of Designs - ✔✔1. Correlational (MEASURE)
- looking for associations, NOT causations
2. Experimental (MANIPULATE)
- cause/effect interest
answers
Six Components of Intimacy - ✔✔1. Knowledge
2. Caring
3. Interdependence
4. Mutuality
5. Trust
6. Commitment
The Need to Belong - ✔✔Powerful drive to establish intimate connections to
others
Causes of Cultural Changes - ✔✔1. Increasing socioeconomic development
2. Increasing individualism
3. New technology
Sex Ratio - ✔✔# of men/# of women
- High = sexually conservative, traditional roles
- Low = permissive, encourage working women
Attachment Styles - ✔✔1. Secure = trusting/relaxed
2. Anxious-Ambivalent = nervous/clingy
3. Avoidant = suspicious/withdrawn
,*Attachment styles are LEARNED through experience
Influences of Individual Differences - ✔✔1. Sex Differences (biological)
- NOT as much as expected
2. Gender Differences (social/psychological)
- Masculine = instrumental
- Feminine = expressive
- Androgynous = mix of both
The Big Five (Personalities) - ✔✔1. Agreeableness (cooperative/trusting)
2. Extraversion (outgoing/sociable)
3. Consciensciousness (dependable)
4. Neuroticism *MOST INFLUENCIAL
5. Openness
Sociometer Theory - ✔✔SELF-ESTEEM as gauge for measuring quality of
relationship with others
("When others like us, we like ourselves")
What DOESN'T influence relationship intimacy? - ✔✔Sexual Orientation
- Homo/hetero sexual couples similar in processes of relationships
3 Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology - ✔✔1. Natural selection has sculpted
our species (sexual selection/adaptation)
, 2. Men/women differ only to extent that they have faced different reproductive
dilemmas
3. Cultures change FASTER than human nature; culture determines whether
certain behaviours are adaptive
Gender Different Reproductive Dilemmas - ✔✔1. Parental investment
- Women more selective, more time/effort put in
2. Paternity uncertainty - Men never know if it is his child
- Men more attracted to "available women"
4 Sources of Developing a Question - ✔✔1. Personal Experience
2. Social Problems
3. Previous Research
4. Theories
How to obtain participants - ✔✔1. Convenience sample (MOST common) = readily
available
2. Representative sample = group that resembles entire population of interest
*Volunteer bias: of invited, those who agree may be different from entire
3 Types of Designs - ✔✔1. Correlational (MEASURE)
- looking for associations, NOT causations
2. Experimental (MANIPULATE)
- cause/effect interest
