Exam 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood.

Many single parents report complex feelings, such as frustration, failure, and guilt. This often leads them to behave in a(n) ____ toward their children.​

The first stage of friendship is to the last stage of friendship, as ____ is to ____.​

When they first got married, Marge and Irwin each had some individual behaviors that irritated the other. For example, Irwin would constantly leave his dirty socks on the bedroom floor, and this bothered Marge. Marge, on the other hand, always forgot to lock the front door when she came in the house. This drove Irwin up a tree! Twenty years later, however, Marge locks the door, and Irwin picks up his socks. This sort of change to accommodate a partner is called marital ____.​

Marital ____ is an umbrella term that refers to any marital outcome.​

To promote positive relationships between stepparents and stepchildren, the text recommends​

Steve is a football coach who has taken a head coaching at a new university and has moved his entire family to that city. After only one year it is clear that his children are not adapting well to their new environment. Steve decides to give up his dream job and move his family back to their former town. This value of placing the well-being of the family ahead of that of the individual is called ____.

The most common form of family around the world is the ____ family, in which grandparents and other relatives live with parents and their children.​

In which of the following circumstances would you be LEAST LIKELY to see assortative mating taking place?​

In general, ____ wives and African American couples use more accommodating and fewer destructive and quiet withdrawal behaviors over time, which in turn leads to a decreased likelihood of divorce.​

Marina and Reid are living together while they are in a monogamous romantic relationship. They are unmarried, and do not currently have plans to get married. They are currently in _______________ living situation.

There is a continuum of abusive relationships that can occur toward a partner, with the most serious type of abusive behavior culminating in _______________.

Familism is the idea that a family's well-being takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members, and is a value most associated with ____ families.​

____ woman syndrome is a situation that occurs when a woman believes that she cannot leave an abusive situation and may even go so far as to kill her abuser.​

Men who become fathers when they are in their thirties are generally more invested in their paternal role and spend up to ____ times more time caring for their preschool children as younger fathers do.​

The "A" in the ABCDE model of adult friendship development stands for _______________.

Hal and Bernice have been married for just nine months, and like any newly married couple they tend to argue from time to time. According to the model of Gottman and Levenson (2000), if their conflicts include ____, their marriage will have a higher likelihood of ending in divorce.​

____ is becoming an increasingly popular lifestyle choice in the United States and in many other countries.​

Victor and his girlfriend Tosha are thinking about moving in together to "test the waters" of their relationship before getting married. "I think it will be good for us," Victor says, "so we can find out if we are good together before spending the time, effort, and money of getting married." What would be the best response to give Victor?

How many of the following individuals would likely have the tendency to separate love and sex from each other? (a) Richard, who is gay; (b) Dominic, who is heterosexual; (c) Marlene, who is heterosexual; and (d) Bertina, who is a lesbian.​

Steve and Aisha have a relationship where they both want to share their thoughts and actions with each other. According to Sternberg (2006), their relationship is high in​