Deck 8: Marriages in Societal and Individual Perspective

Question 1

Which relationship factor is most important in predicting marital success?

A) Problem-solving skills
B) The absence of conflict
C) Assertiveness
D) Emotional environment

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Same-sex marriage is allowed in ___ states in the United States.

A) 17
B) 4
C) 29
D) 50

Answer 2

D

Question 3

How does parenthood affect marriage?

A) It lowers marital conflict.
B) It leads to more involvement in leisure activities.
C) It leads to a deterioration of marital functioning.
D) It leads to more shared household responsibility.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The marriage debate refers to the debate about whether

A) marriage is becoming more or less popular.
B) marriage has become more or less stable over time.
C) the family is in decline or dynamic, changing, and resilient.
D) the duration of marriage effect truly exists.

Question 5

Marriages that are homogamous tend to be more stable than those that are heterogamous because

A) homogamous couples may have more approval from relatives.
B) homogamous couples are probably less conventional.
C) heterogamous couples are likely to be rigid in their beliefs.
D) homogamous couples may have considerably different values.

Question 6

Which courtship pattern is most likely to lead to satisfying and enduring marriage?

A) Rocky and turbulent courtships
B) Sweet and undramatic courtships
C) Passionate courtships
D) Disappointing and negative courtships

Question 7

Positive assortative mating is also known as

A) hypergamy.
B) hypogamy.
C) heterogamy.
D) homogamy.

Question 8

Which statement about marriage is a myth?

A) Marriage changes a person for the better.
B) Marriage is beneficial to health and well-being if the marriage is good.
C) Passionate courtships can lead to marriages that end in divorce.
D) Undramatic courtships are most likely to lead to satisfying marriages.

Question 9

According to the stimulus-value-role theory, in the stimulus stage each person is

A) attracted to the other.
B) determining if they are compatible.
C) analyzing the other's behavior.
D) determining if the other would make a good spouse.

Question 10

The most important background factor in shaping marital outcomes is

A) socioeconomic class.
B) age at marriage.
C) religion.
D) ethnicity.

Question 11

Lauer and Lauer found which of the following to be an ingredient for marital success?

A) Believing in marriage as a short-term obligation
B) Having a best friend other than your spouse to in whom to confide
C) Consensus on fundamentals such as aims and goals
D) Being able to maintain traditional gender roles within the marriage

Question 12

Parenthood frequently causes couples to evolve into more traditional division of labor roles in their marriage and families.

Question 13

Most Americans now agree that marriage is an outdated institution.

Question 14

Social and psychological issues thattypically need to be dealt with during engagement include which of the following?

A) Gender identity
B) Partner choice
C) Self-knowledge
D) Identity bargaining

Question 15

For both men and women, which of the following is most positively associated with the likelihood of marriage?

A) Careers
B) Education
C) Geographical origins
D) Ability to have children

Question 16

The following are the primary factors that account for the beneficial marriage health connection, except 

A) economic resources
B) political support
C) social control
D) psychosocial support and strain

Question 17

The duration of marriage effect looks at the accumulation of different behaviors over time.

Question 18

The boomerang generation mostly affects which marriage stage?

A) Second marriages
B) Older marriage
C) Middle-aged marriage
D) Early marriage

Question 19

Carr and Springer argue that successful marriages involve all of the following, except

A) social control.
B) economic resources.
C) psychosocial support and strain.
D) political negotiation.

Question 20

According to the text, each of the following is a function of engagement, except

A) the beginning of serious, lifelong plans.
B) preparing couples for future divorce.
C) the beginning of kinship with each other's families.
D) the strengthening of the partners as a couple.

Question 21

Conflict-habituated marriages are more common than vital marriages, according to Cuber and Harroff.

Question 22

The following are the benefits of marriage, except

A) it confers legal benefits
B) it confers benefits in economic well-being
C) it confers benefits in physical and mental health, and personal happiness
D) it confers 100 rights

Question 23

Discuss the functions of engagement.

Question 24

The factor that may influence whether and when people choose to marry includes which of the following

A) number of divorces in midlife.
B) number of previous marriages.
C) tendency for women to marry men of higher education.
D) religious affiliation and religiosity.

Question 25

The federal ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states is called the Defense of Marriage Act.

Question 26

Cohabitation serves many of the same functions as engagement.

Question 27

Individualized marriages emphasize

A) sexual unfaithfulness.
B) fear of divorce.
C) personal fulfillment.
D) kinship ties.

Question 28

How does parenthood affect marital success?

Question 29

Discuss relationship factors that predict marital success.

Question 30

The exchanging of rings dates back to ancient Egyptian weddings and symbolizes timelessness.

Question 31

Discuss Cuber and Haroff's five types of marriage.

Question 32

Barriers to marriage for low-income unmarried couples with children include which of the following?

A) Financial concerns
B) Correlational inferiority
C) Acceptance of divorce
D) Concerns about relationships with new in-laws

Question 33

Premarital factors which researchers have found to predict later marital happiness and satisfaction include all of the following, except

A) length of courtship.
B) level of education.
C) number of previous dating relationships.
D) age at marriage.

Question 34

Define and describe the "marriage debate."

Question 35

Men tend to marry women who are

A) more educated.
B) the same age.
C) below them in age and education.
D) above them in age and education.

Question 36

Marriage remains highly valued, even with increased acceptance of divorce and nonmarital lifestyles.

Question 37

Early married couples need to separate from their families of orientation in order to strengthen their marriages.

Question 38

People in which  group are least likely to be married?

A) Caucasians
B) Asian Americans
C) African Americans
D) Hispanic Americans

Question 39

A marriage between a man and his mother, sister, or daughter violates the principles of

A) endogamy.
B) exogamy.
C) heterogamy.
D) homogamy.

Question 40

Women typically experience depression and an identity crisis when their youngest child departs from the home.