Exam 9: Emotion in Relationships and Society

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Research with prairie voles as well as human suggests that the neurotransmitter plays an important role in facilitating long-term pair bonds between mating partners.

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Around the world, thinner women are considered more physically attractive than heavier women.

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In the early to mid 20th century, most scientists believed that children only need food, protection from illness, and physical safety to develop normally.

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Which of the following is NOT considered a defining feature of secure infant attachment to a regular caregiver?

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Spouses in healthy, satisfying marriages tend to develop more secure attachment styles over time, even if they were somewhat insecure to begin with.

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According to an early study by Hazan and Shaver (1987), adults with which attachment style are most likely to say that they fall in love easily?

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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of people who chose the "secure" paragraph as the best fit in Hazan and Shaver's (1987) study of adult attachment styles?

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Explain the difference between empathic accuracy and emotional empathy, as described in your textbook.

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List the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" identified by John Gottman's research on the predictors of divorce.

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Summarize the prototypical behavior of the caregivers of securely attached, anxiously attached, and avoidantly attached infants.

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Maria is 15 months old. Her mother has to go out one evening, so she takes Maria to the home of a good friend who can look after her for a couple of hours. Because Maria has never met this friend, the mom stays with her for a while before leaving. Still, Maria clings to her mother while they are in this unfamiliar places, and when her mother cries she screams uncontrollably. When Maria's mother returns, Maria has a difficult time calming down, and seems angry at her mother for leaving as well as glad that she has returned. A researcher would describe Maria's attachment style as .

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Which of the following is NOT one of John Gottman's "four horsemen of the apocalypse," the set of marital conflict behavior associated with greater probability of divorce?

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According to an early study by Hazan and Shaver (1987), adults with which attachment style are most likely to agree that romantic love does not last forever?

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Which of the following has NOT been associated with greater perceived physical attractiveness?

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Research has found that couples who express gratitude to each other in a laboratory conversation report better relationship quality 6 months later than couples in a control condition.

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Attachment behavior first begins to emerge in infants around 6 months of age. Which of the following is the most commonly accepted reason for attachment developing at this age?

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According to an early study by Hazan and Shaver (1987), adults with which attachment style are most likely to agree that ups and downs are normal in a long-term romantic relationship?

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Attachment behaviors are most pronounced when infants are between the ages of six months and two years.

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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of people who chose the "anxious" paragraph as the best fit in Hazan and Shaver's (1987) study of adult attachment styles?

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Mammalian infants' experience of separation distress has been linked to suddenly reduced activation of receptors for which kind of neurotransmitter?

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