Midterm Marriage & Family Ssc Summer 2015

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is associated with a host of marital difficulties including infidelity, divorce, violence, and conflict.

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Heavy or risky drinking, and other forms of substance abuse

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The text points out that, as the proportion of children declines,

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neighborhoods are less likely to contain children

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Today, approximately ____ million U.S. heterosexual couples cohabit.

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5.5

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In the NORC survey discussed in the text, the average frequency of sex for sexually active, married respondentsunder age 60 was ____ per month.

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7 times

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Racial/ethnic stereotyping often gives us an exaggerated, negative image of ____ as parents

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African Americans and Latinos

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In comparison with Protestants, Catholics tend to be more ____ in their worldview.

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communal

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Random assignment of research participants to Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3 would suggest that the investigatorsare using which technique?

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experiment

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On average, American women are now having around ____ children each.

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2

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Louisiana, Arizona and Arkansas became the first states to

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enact a covenant marriage law.

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Research shows some support for the ____ hypothesis - that is, that familiarity reduces the reward power of asexual encounter with a spouse or partner compared to a new relationship.

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habituation

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Which of the following is NOT an example given by the text of women in nontraditional roles?

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housewife

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In 2005 in the U.S., all of these were at higher rates than in the past EXCEPT:

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teen pregnancy rates

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During the 1980s, a new cultural message about men emerged. According to this message, the "____" male or "newman" is emotionally sensitive and expressive, valuing tenderness and equal relationships with women.

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liberated

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Jane is seeking to improve her economic status by marrying a man who earns a great deal of money. Her maritalbehavior illustrates

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hypergamy

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Theoretical perspectives are ways of

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viewing reality, or ways of looking at reality.

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Among American Indians

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more couples cohabitate and less couples marry than the U.S. average

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In 2003, of the 700,000 same-sex households in the United States, were there more gay-male couples or lesbiancouples?

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about evenly divided

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What is the key function of marriage for most Americans?

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love and ongoing emotional support

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Julie is extremely concerned about her self-image and how she appears to others, without regard to the well-beingof others. Julie's behavior illustrates

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narcissism

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The ____ perspective argues that humans' evolutionary biology affects much of human behavior and, morespecifically, many family-related behaviors

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biosocial

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Those who view individualized marriage as ____ assert that our culture's unchecked individualism has causewidespread moral weakening and self-indulgence.

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family decline

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Theoretical perspectives or theories can increase our ____ families and family life.

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understanding of

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In recent decades, the earnings gap between men and women

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narrowed some

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What factor may cause a father to make choices about his family "by default"?

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Strong day-to-day pressures on the job cutting into time at home

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According to the ____ theoretical perspective on human sexuality, women and men are seen as being influenced bycultural messages about how we are to be sexual.

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interactionist

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The question of how two previously separate individuals come together and over time create a shared view ofthemselves as a couple would be best answered using which perspective?

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interactionist

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The process by which society influences members to internalize attitudes and expectations is called

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socialization

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According to the text's discussion of social class differences among marriages

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working-class couples tend to emphasize values associated with parenthood and job stability and may be moretraditional in gender role ideology.

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During the 1990s, declines in the teen birth rate were especially large for ____ women

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black

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The text defines love as

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a deep and vital emotion that satisfies needs; cares and accepts the beloved, and results in an intimate relationship.

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A longitudinal study of the impact of group membership on self-concept confirmed Cooley's notion that socialfeedback shapes the self-concept, a process he termed ____.

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"the looking glass self".

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In Kimmel's typology of camps within the men's movement, which group emerged in the 1990s and tends not tofocus on patriarchy as problematic?

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masculinists

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Unconscious decisions are called

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choosing by default.

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Sociologist Robert Davis believes that black men are inclined to see white women as

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"the prize."

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The text points out that ____ is closely related to the concept of date rape

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sexual coercion

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What was formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is now a federal aid program called

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Temporary Assistance for Needed Families

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In the 1950s, when intersex babies were first studied, they were then called

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hermaphrodites

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The cultural ____ approach emphasizes those features that racial/ethnic minority families have in common withmainstream white families.

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equivalent

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"Chromosomes, hormones, the internal sex structures, the gonads and the external genitalia all vary more than mostpeople realize." This statement complements a discussion of which of the following?

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intersexuality

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Of any other racial/ethnic group, a higher proportion of ____ children live in poverty.

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black

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Collecting data over a period of years using documented materials would reflect a(n)

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longitudinal study.

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Which of the following is NOT among the eight theoretical perspectives on the family discussed in the text?

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containment theory

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Most immigrant family tax dollars go to ____ government.

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the federal

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Latino families may be ____, those in which some family members are American citizens or legal residents, whileothers are undocumented.

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binationa

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Consider the statement: "Due to social pressures, firms frequently have to hire underqualified women." Thisillustrates ____ sexism

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modern

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The text points out that shifts in the balance of individuality and familism have meant that family lives have become

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less predictable.

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It is estimated that ____ children under age eighteen are living in a grandparent's household.

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more than 3.6 million

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Nonmarital birth rates of ____ women are highest of any racial/ethnic group.

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Hispanic

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Women's domestic work was largely invisible in social science until ____ began to treat household labor as workthat has economic value.

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feminist theories

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The correlation between interparental conflict and behavior problems in children held true regardless of whether theparents were

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married or divorced.