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68) A healthy marriage contributes to reducing stress by
A) increasing financial stability and expanding support networks.
B) limiting the support network to only the immediate family.
C) contributing to less-than-optimal personal behaviors.
D) reducing the need to impress others.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
69) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding gay and lesbian couples?
A) They seek the same things in primary relationships that heterosexuals do.
B) The number of gay and lesbian households has decreased over the past 10 years.
C) They have low levels of attachment and satisfaction.
D) They can legally marry in nearly all countries of the world.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
70) All of the following are true about cohabitation EXCEPT that
A) after a number of years, it can constitute a common–law marriage.
B) it can offer love, companionship, and sex.
C) it may become legally binding.
D) it is a predictor for divorce.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
71) Which of the following is TRUE about being single in the United States?
A) The number of adults electing to remain single is increasing.
B) Singles have trouble achieving intimacy with others.
C) Most singles have a hard time finding fulfillment in life.
D) The number of adults electing to remain single is decreasing.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
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72) A relationship in which the partners are sexually involved only with each other is
A) consensual.
B) open.
C) intimate.
D) monogamous.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
73) When two partners in an intimate relationship live together without being married, this is
A) cohabitation.
B) common-law marriage.
C) an open relationship.
D) an informal relationship.
Skill: Remembering
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
74) Lengthy cohabitation that is considered legally binding in some states is
A) cohabitation.
B) common-law marriage.
C) an open relationship.
D) an informal relationship.
Skill: Remembering
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
75) Which of the following statements about marital status in the United States is TRUE?
A) The percentage of males who have never married is higher than that of females.
B) The percentage of males who are widowed is higher than that of females.
C) The percentage of males who are divorced is higher than that of females.
D) Nearly 77% of U.S. adults are married.
Skill: Remembering
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
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76) Which of the following statements about the benefits of marriage is TRUE?
A) Being in an unhealthy marriage is better for psychological wellness than being unmarried.
B) The health benefits of marriage are not enjoyed by unmarried romantic partners who live
together.
C) Rates of smoking and alcohol abuse are lower in married couples.
D) Married men are more likely to maintain a healthful body weight than unmarried men.
Skill: Remembering
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
77) Amelia and Geoff married when Amelia was 20 years old and Geoff was 23. Presuming that
their marriage reflects population statistics,
A) they most likely married around the year 2015.
B) they most likely married around the year 1960.
C) they are much more likely to divorce within ten years than to remain married.
D) they are more likely than not to have an open relationship.
Skill: Applying
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
78) In a relationship, commitment means that
A) both partners in a relationship agree to practice monogamy.
B) couples agree to remain married no matter what.
C) the partners agree to shared decision making on all concerns involving the couple.
D) each partner intends to act over time in a way that perpetuates the well–being of the other.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
79) Chris and Robin have been romantic partners for almost a decade, and have lived together
unmarried for the last four years. Their relationship is considered
A) a religious sacrament.
B) a common-law marriage.
C) cohabitation.
D) a prelude to marriage.
Skill: Applying
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
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80) A benefit of cohabitation is that
A) the partners won’t have to deal with pressure to marry.
B) the partners won’t have to deal with pressure to have children.
C) it allows the partners to share housing costs and utility bills.
D) in the great majority of cases, it leads to marriage.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
81) The need for intimacy means the need for someone with whom we can share our feelings
freely.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Intimate Connections
Learning Outcome: 5.1
82) A relationship is intimate only if sex is involved.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Intimate Connections
Learning Outcome: 5.1
83) The intimacy level that two people experience is usually obvious to others.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Intimate Connections
Learning Outcome: 5.1
84) College students today are having sex more frequently and with a greater number of partners
than students did 30 years ago.
Skill: Remembering
Section: The Value of Relationships
Learning Outcome: 5.2
85) All types of close relationships, not just marriage, are good for our health.
Skill: Remembering
Section: The Value of Relationships
Learning Outcome: 5.2
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86) Men and women often communicate in gender-specific ways, but the bigger difference lies
in how they interpret or process the same message.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Building Communication Skills
Learning Outcome: 5.3
87) The new etiquette of relationships established under social media has made it perfectly
acceptable to break up with someone online.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Building Communication Skills
Learning Outcome: 5.3
88) Intimacy is unlikely in relationships lacking self-disclosure.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Building Communication Skills
Learning Outcome: 5.3
89) Women are more likely than men to pick up subtle messages about status or social hierarchy.
Skill: Remembering
Section: Building Communication Skills
Learning Outcome: 5.3
90) The U.S. divorce rate has increased over the past several decades.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Relationships: For Better and Worse
Learning Outcome: 5.4
91) Feeling that you have to share everything with your partner is a sign of a healthy
relationship.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Relationships: For Better and Worse
Learning Outcome: 5.4
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92) Challenges to successful gay and lesbian relationships often stem from discrimination.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
93) Serial monogamy means that partners have sexual involvement outside their primary
relationship.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
94) A majority of Americans identify similar ideas about having and raising children as the most
important trait they look for in a partner.
Skill: Understanding
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5
95) Why do you think that many people agree you must love yourself before you can love
someone else, and what two personal qualities are especially important to be able to bring to
relationships? Provide information from the chapter to support your answer.
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Intimate Connections
Learning Outcome: 5.1
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96) Identify the three elements that, according to Sternberg‘s triangular theory of love, are
characteristic of loving relationships, and their association with consummate love.
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Intimate Connections
Learning Outcome: 5.1
97) Identify the reason researchers give for the recent rise in collective connectedness in the
United States.
Skill: Understanding
Section: The Value of Relationships
Learning Outcome: 5.2
98) Identify and describe three types of listening, and explain the effect of each on strengthening
or undermining relationships.
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Building Communication Skills
Learning Outcome: 5.3
99) Do you think jealousy is present in a healthy relationship? Provide information from the
chapter to support your answer.
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Relationships: For Better and Worse
Learning Outcome: 5.4
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100) Why do you think that a great majority of adults age 20 to 34 in the United States, and 25
percent of adults age 25 and older—as compared to just 9 percent in 1960—have never been
married? Provide information from the chapter to support your answer.
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Marriage, Partnering, and Singlehood
Learning Outcome: 5.5