FMST 314 Midterm Exam #1 Questions with correct
answers
7 Components of Intimacy - ✔✔Knowledge, Caring, Interdependence, Trust,
Responsiveness, Mutuality, Commitment
Knowledge - ✔✔1) Possess extensive personal info about each other
2) Don't usually reveal information to other people they know
Caring - ✔✔feel more affection for one another
Trust - ✔✔1) expecting to be treated fairly and honorably
2) No undue harm
Responsiveness - ✔✔1) recognizing, supporting and reacting to another's needs
2) powerfully rewarding
Mutuality - ✔✔recognizing the closer relationship, and think of themselves as us/
partnership, instead of individuals
Commitment - ✔✔the expectation that the partnership will continue
Components of Intimacy - ✔✔Not all are required but the more present, usually
the more satisfying and meaningful the relationship is.
Belonging - ✔✔1) humans need to belong -> might lead to health problems
,2) driven to develop and maintain close relationships
3) Quality over quantity
4) Generally happier and healthier when we feel connected to others
5) Evolutionary
Canadian Relationship Statistics (age 25-64) - ✔✔1) Most people are married or in
common law
2) Common law is increasing
3) more married couples were in common law
5 Major Relationship Influences - ✔✔Culture, Experience (attachment style),
Individual Differences (sex differences are smaller than we thought), Human
Nature, Interactions (fluid process rather than static entities)
3 Different Attachment Styles in Children - ✔✔Secure, Anxious Ambivalent,
Avoidant
Attachments styles were originally developed from researching? - ✔✔Infants -
depending on whether their caregiver responded to their needs
Secure Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) happily bonded with others
2) rely on others comfortably
3) readily developed relationships characterized by relaxed trust
Anxious Ambivalent Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) care was unpredictable and
inconsistent
, 2) nervous, clingy, and needy in future relationships
Avoidant Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) care was provided reluctantly by
rejecting or hostile adults
2) often suspect others, did not easily form trust or close relationships
4 Different Attachment Styles in Adults - ✔✔Secure, Preoccupied, Dismissing,
Fearful
Secure - ✔✔1) Low anxiety about abandonment and low avoidance of intimacy
2) Comfortable with intimacy and Interdependence
3) Optimistic and sociable
Preoccupied - ✔✔1) High anxiety about abandonment and low avoidance of
intimacy
2) uneasy and vigilant toward any threat to the relationship
3) needy and jealous
Dismissing - ✔✔1) Low anxiety about abandonment and high avoidance of
intimacy
2) self-reliant and uninterested in intimacy
3) indifferent and independent
Fearful - ✔✔1) High anxiety about abandonment and high avoidance of intimacy
2) fearful of rejection and mistrustful of others
answers
7 Components of Intimacy - ✔✔Knowledge, Caring, Interdependence, Trust,
Responsiveness, Mutuality, Commitment
Knowledge - ✔✔1) Possess extensive personal info about each other
2) Don't usually reveal information to other people they know
Caring - ✔✔feel more affection for one another
Trust - ✔✔1) expecting to be treated fairly and honorably
2) No undue harm
Responsiveness - ✔✔1) recognizing, supporting and reacting to another's needs
2) powerfully rewarding
Mutuality - ✔✔recognizing the closer relationship, and think of themselves as us/
partnership, instead of individuals
Commitment - ✔✔the expectation that the partnership will continue
Components of Intimacy - ✔✔Not all are required but the more present, usually
the more satisfying and meaningful the relationship is.
Belonging - ✔✔1) humans need to belong -> might lead to health problems
,2) driven to develop and maintain close relationships
3) Quality over quantity
4) Generally happier and healthier when we feel connected to others
5) Evolutionary
Canadian Relationship Statistics (age 25-64) - ✔✔1) Most people are married or in
common law
2) Common law is increasing
3) more married couples were in common law
5 Major Relationship Influences - ✔✔Culture, Experience (attachment style),
Individual Differences (sex differences are smaller than we thought), Human
Nature, Interactions (fluid process rather than static entities)
3 Different Attachment Styles in Children - ✔✔Secure, Anxious Ambivalent,
Avoidant
Attachments styles were originally developed from researching? - ✔✔Infants -
depending on whether their caregiver responded to their needs
Secure Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) happily bonded with others
2) rely on others comfortably
3) readily developed relationships characterized by relaxed trust
Anxious Ambivalent Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) care was unpredictable and
inconsistent
, 2) nervous, clingy, and needy in future relationships
Avoidant Attachment in Children - ✔✔1) care was provided reluctantly by
rejecting or hostile adults
2) often suspect others, did not easily form trust or close relationships
4 Different Attachment Styles in Adults - ✔✔Secure, Preoccupied, Dismissing,
Fearful
Secure - ✔✔1) Low anxiety about abandonment and low avoidance of intimacy
2) Comfortable with intimacy and Interdependence
3) Optimistic and sociable
Preoccupied - ✔✔1) High anxiety about abandonment and low avoidance of
intimacy
2) uneasy and vigilant toward any threat to the relationship
3) needy and jealous
Dismissing - ✔✔1) Low anxiety about abandonment and high avoidance of
intimacy
2) self-reliant and uninterested in intimacy
3) indifferent and independent
Fearful - ✔✔1) High anxiety about abandonment and high avoidance of intimacy
2) fearful of rejection and mistrustful of others
