COMM 3800 Family Comm Final Exam-
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Questions and CORRECT ANSWERS
Individual factors: personal mate preference - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Chastity (not as
popular today), physical attractiveness (increasingly important), financial resources
(increasingly important), cooking/housekeeping (not as important today), and mutual
attraction/love (very important today compared to before the 1960s)
Assortive Matching - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Homogamy refers to individuals who are
alike on a characteristic. When individuals pair with mates according to homogamy
Couples tend to match when it comes to age, race, education, socioeconomic class, and
physical attractiveness
Initiating: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"Hi how ya doin'?" "Fine. You?"-
we've recently met or I'd like to meet this person; deciding whether he/she is attractive and
whether to initiate communication
Experimenting: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"Oh, so you like to ski...so do
I." "You do? Great. Where do you go?"- we are beginning the process of experimenting--
trying to discover the unknown; small talk is key, relationship is relaxed and pleasant with
many questions
Intensifying- relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"I...think I love you." "I love
you too"- we have a good amount of personal closure and we have begun to get a glimpse of
some previously withheld secrets; we have begun to speak more informally; we become close
with caution waiting for confirmation before proceeding
Bonding: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"I feel so much a part of you"
"Yeah, we are like one person" "I want to be with you always" "Let's get married"- our two
individual personalities are almost fused or blended; verbal and nonverbal communication
shows that we are alike; in a public ritual we have announced to the world that a commitment
has been formally contracted; communication is at its highest level
,Integrating stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔As partners choose to intensify their
relationship, they become increasingly interdependent which translates to more opportunities
for conflict
Sleeper effect - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The effect of conflict during courtship sometimes
does not show up until later; even serious conflict during courtship does not always affect a
couple's satisfaction with their relationship at the time, but it may predict dissatisfaction with
the partner and the marriage up to five years later
Socio-Cultural Networks - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In general:
1. network support enhances relationship progress and interference hampers it,
2. interference tends to occur in the middle stages of a relationship.
Romeo-and-Juliet Effect - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔There is little support for the Romeo
and Juliet effect (i.e., the idea that couples become stronger in spite of interference)
Perceived Subjective Reactions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(e.g., "What will other people
think of me if I date this person?").
In other words, people are more concerned about what others will think (i.e., their general
disapproval or encouragement) versus what they do
Online dating - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Around 25% of singles in the US have used an
online dating service; people over age of 60 are beginning to use it
online dating is appealing to people who feel their marriage/dating markets are diminished
because of relocation, retirement, and divorce or parenting demands or to people who are
crunched for time to date the traditional way because of work or single parenting demands
What does research on communication during online dating focus on? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔1. How impressions and identities are managed online,
2. how specific online communication behaviors (self-disclosure, emotionality, and
relationship maintenance) occur and the effect they have,
, 3. how couples vary in their dependence and use of online communication
How do people communicate online and what effect does this communication have? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Online dating often occurs at an accelerated pace, with a flurry of
email messages, compared to traditional dating where partners begin with once a week dates;
when a relationship exists exclusively online, daters can put the brakes on a relationship more
easily and abruptly by blocking emails, not responding, and cashing in on any anonymity
they have maintained
Different online dating realtionships - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Virtuals- first met online
and still meet online
2. Pinocchios- first met online and now meet offline
3. Real Worlders- first met offline and still meet offline
4. Cyber Emigrants- first met offline but now meet online
Murstein's Stimulus-Value-Role Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An exchange theory
suggesting that in a free choice situation, attraction and interaction depend on the exchange of
assets (behaviors and qualities that reward) and liabilities (behaviors and qualities that are
costly to others) that each partner brings to the relationship
Murstein suggests that completing each stage prepares a couple for marriage; however people
tend to not like stage models such as this one so interpersonal process models were created
Stages of SVR Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Stimulus- (first impressions based on
physical appearance, status, poise, etc.)
2. Value Comparison Stage- (partners focus on attitudes, beliefs, needs, desires)
3. Role Stage- (whether the partner's roles fits with respect to the other partner's roles)
Accelerated Types (Interpersonal) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔in which partners moved
gradually and rapidly in their certainty toward marriage
Walden UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT ANSWERS
Individual factors: personal mate preference - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Chastity (not as
popular today), physical attractiveness (increasingly important), financial resources
(increasingly important), cooking/housekeeping (not as important today), and mutual
attraction/love (very important today compared to before the 1960s)
Assortive Matching - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Homogamy refers to individuals who are
alike on a characteristic. When individuals pair with mates according to homogamy
Couples tend to match when it comes to age, race, education, socioeconomic class, and
physical attractiveness
Initiating: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"Hi how ya doin'?" "Fine. You?"-
we've recently met or I'd like to meet this person; deciding whether he/she is attractive and
whether to initiate communication
Experimenting: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"Oh, so you like to ski...so do
I." "You do? Great. Where do you go?"- we are beginning the process of experimenting--
trying to discover the unknown; small talk is key, relationship is relaxed and pleasant with
many questions
Intensifying- relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"I...think I love you." "I love
you too"- we have a good amount of personal closure and we have begun to get a glimpse of
some previously withheld secrets; we have begun to speak more informally; we become close
with caution waiting for confirmation before proceeding
Bonding: relationship stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"I feel so much a part of you"
"Yeah, we are like one person" "I want to be with you always" "Let's get married"- our two
individual personalities are almost fused or blended; verbal and nonverbal communication
shows that we are alike; in a public ritual we have announced to the world that a commitment
has been formally contracted; communication is at its highest level
,Integrating stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔As partners choose to intensify their
relationship, they become increasingly interdependent which translates to more opportunities
for conflict
Sleeper effect - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The effect of conflict during courtship sometimes
does not show up until later; even serious conflict during courtship does not always affect a
couple's satisfaction with their relationship at the time, but it may predict dissatisfaction with
the partner and the marriage up to five years later
Socio-Cultural Networks - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In general:
1. network support enhances relationship progress and interference hampers it,
2. interference tends to occur in the middle stages of a relationship.
Romeo-and-Juliet Effect - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔There is little support for the Romeo
and Juliet effect (i.e., the idea that couples become stronger in spite of interference)
Perceived Subjective Reactions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(e.g., "What will other people
think of me if I date this person?").
In other words, people are more concerned about what others will think (i.e., their general
disapproval or encouragement) versus what they do
Online dating - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Around 25% of singles in the US have used an
online dating service; people over age of 60 are beginning to use it
online dating is appealing to people who feel their marriage/dating markets are diminished
because of relocation, retirement, and divorce or parenting demands or to people who are
crunched for time to date the traditional way because of work or single parenting demands
What does research on communication during online dating focus on? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔1. How impressions and identities are managed online,
2. how specific online communication behaviors (self-disclosure, emotionality, and
relationship maintenance) occur and the effect they have,
, 3. how couples vary in their dependence and use of online communication
How do people communicate online and what effect does this communication have? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Online dating often occurs at an accelerated pace, with a flurry of
email messages, compared to traditional dating where partners begin with once a week dates;
when a relationship exists exclusively online, daters can put the brakes on a relationship more
easily and abruptly by blocking emails, not responding, and cashing in on any anonymity
they have maintained
Different online dating realtionships - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Virtuals- first met online
and still meet online
2. Pinocchios- first met online and now meet offline
3. Real Worlders- first met offline and still meet offline
4. Cyber Emigrants- first met offline but now meet online
Murstein's Stimulus-Value-Role Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An exchange theory
suggesting that in a free choice situation, attraction and interaction depend on the exchange of
assets (behaviors and qualities that reward) and liabilities (behaviors and qualities that are
costly to others) that each partner brings to the relationship
Murstein suggests that completing each stage prepares a couple for marriage; however people
tend to not like stage models such as this one so interpersonal process models were created
Stages of SVR Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Stimulus- (first impressions based on
physical appearance, status, poise, etc.)
2. Value Comparison Stage- (partners focus on attitudes, beliefs, needs, desires)
3. Role Stage- (whether the partner's roles fits with respect to the other partner's roles)
Accelerated Types (Interpersonal) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔in which partners moved
gradually and rapidly in their certainty toward marriage
