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| Elaborate on "Not to decide is to decide." |
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| Not making a decision is a decision by default. |
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| Elaborate on "Some choices require correction." |
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| Reverse rather than defend the choice. |
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| Elaborate on "Choices involve trade-offs." |
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| Any choice involves gains and losses. |
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| Elaborate on "Choices are influenced by stage of the family life cycle." |
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| Parents make different decisions than lovers. |
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| Elaborate on "Choices include selecting a positive or negative view." |
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| Optimistic or pessimistic. |
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| Elaborate on "Choices produce ambivalence." |
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| Elaborate on "Most choices are revocable, some are not." |
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| True or false. Making wise choices is a skill that can be learned. |
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| Elaborate on "There are different decision making styles." |
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| Experimenting, struggling, etc. |
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| Elaborate on "Choices by Generation Yers are unique." |
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| Focus on fun, and enjoyment. |
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| What are global's influences on choices? |
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| Economic, political, and religious happenings throughout the world affect relationship choices (e.g. price of gas affects money spent on family vacation). |
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| What is social structure's influence on choices? |
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| Institutions, social groups. Gay individuals can't "choose" to marry since legal institution prohibits and society is not tolerant. |
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| What is culture's influence on choices? |
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| Beliefs and values. Gay individuals can't "choose" to marry due to societal belief and value that heterosexual marriage is best alternative for adults. U.S. society fosters individualism (choices that serve the individual), rather than familism (choices that serve the larger family unit. Asian cultures are more familistic than individuals. |
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| What is Media's influence on choices? |
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| Creates norms and structures expectations (e.g. cohabitation, divorce). |
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| Elaborate "family of origin"'s influence on choices. |
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| Intact or divorced parents. |
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| Elaborate "unconscious motivation"'s influence on choices. |
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| Elaborate "habit pattern"'s influence on choices. |
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| Elaborate "individual personality"'s influence on choices. |
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| Elaborate "previous experiences"'s influence on choices. |
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| What are the elements of marriage? |
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| Legal contract, emotional relationship, sexual monogamy expected, legal responsibility for children, public announcement/ formal ceremony. |
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| generic term that means several spouses. |
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| Only one spouse at any given time; but more than one spouse over a lifetime marriage, divorce, remarriage or marriage, widowhood, and remarriage. |
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| One husband has two or more wives. |
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| One wife has two or more husbands. |
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| Multiple relationships where partners committed to each other. |
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| Group marriage where everyone in group married to everyone else. |
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| Define family of origin/ family of orientation. |
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| The family into which you were born into. |
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| Define family of procreation. |
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| The family individuals begin when they marry and have children. |
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| Family consisting of parents and children. (may refer to either family of origin or family of procreation). |
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| Define traditional family. |
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| Two-parent nuclear family. |
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| Dual earner family where both spouses work outside the home. |
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| Define postmodern family. |
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| Lesbigay families, single mothers by choice. |
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| Family unit created when divorced parents remarry and take children into new marriage (new spouse may also have children from previous marriage). |
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| A family that includes relatives such as grandparent, uncles, aunts, and/or cousins. |
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| Things to consider in a sample. |
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| Should be a random sample- every person in the population has an equal chance of being included. |
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| Things to consider in a control group. |
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| Should have a control group- the group is not exposed to the independent variable. |
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| Things to consider in the age/cohort effect. |
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| Be alert to the passage of time as it influences the research subjects. |
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| Things to consider in the terminology section. |
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| Term such as marital satisfaction should be operationally defined. |
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| Things to consider in research bias. |
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| Does researcher have an agenda or a conflict of interest. |
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| Things to consider in distortion and deception. |
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| How might data be distorted via analysis? Is deliberate deception occurring? |
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| What are other research problems? |
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| Non-response on questionnaires, discrepancy between attitudes and behaviors, and use of volunteers are other issues to consider in evaluating research. |
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| of deep abiding feelings. |
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| emotional feelings based on little actual exposure to the love object. |
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| love is considered a game whereby a ludic individual juggles several partners and never sees one partner too often. "hooking up." |
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| pragmatic and logical. Pragmatist avoid long-distance, interracial, and age-discrepant relationships. Selects only useful mates. |
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| passion and romance--- the most common love style of college students. |
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| possessive, dependent, out of control---stalker's love style. |
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| calm, soothing, nonsexual love as between person's long married. |
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| selfless giving love similar to love between parent and child. |
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| feelings that result (react) to something the partner is doing (e.g. talking with an ex partner). |
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| are obsessive ruminations about the partner's alleged infidelity making one's life a miserable emotional torment. |
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| attacking the partner or the object of the partner's affection. (e.g. O.J. Simpson murdering his ex wife and Ron Goldman---civil trial verdict). |
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| external factors causing jealousy |
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| behaviors of partner such as talking/flirting/dancing with others. |
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| internal factors causing jealousy |
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| feelings of mistrust, low self-esteem, being dependent, lack of perceived alternatives, and insecure. People with short relationships, less committed and less satisfied were more likely to be jealous. |
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| positive consequences of jealousy |
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| communicating to the partner that extra-partner romantic/sexual involvements are not acceptable, solidify commitment to partner. |
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| depression, physical/emotional abuse, suicide, murder. |
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| short primer on polyamory |
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| polyamory is more emotionally intimate than swinging and offer the possibility of greater gender equality than polygyn because both men and women can have more than one partner. |
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| polyamory implies no sexual exclusivity. However, polyfidelity means fidelity among those in the group. |
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| biological distinction between females and males. |
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| social and psychological characteristics associated with being a female (easily embarrassed)<-- feminine, or male (competitive)<-- masculine. |
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| Psychological state of viewing oneself as a girl or a boy, and later as a woman or a man. |
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| generic term for a person of one biological sex who displays characteristics of the other sex. |
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| socially dictated behavior for women and men (e.g., women expected to be more focused on child care than men). |
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| how undergraduate men view women |
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| unhappy, marriage focused, controlling and possessive. |
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| how undergraduate women view men |
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| cheaters, unreliable, exploitative, and sex focused with poor communication skills. |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. More men than women reported that they were interested in finding a significant other. |
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| Between having fun, seek a romantic partner, or hook up, which is the highest of the three, the middle, and lowest percentages reported by undergraduates. |
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| having fun (highest), meeting potential partners (middle), hooking up (low) |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. A lot of women reported initiating a relationship. |
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| What are the advantages of seeking someone online? |
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| Sift through lot of partners quickly, assess similar interests quickly, no visual distraction, avoid smoky bars. |
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| What are the disadvantages of seeking someone online? |
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| Deception, fall in love due to quick disclosure, can't assess chemistry online, can't observe how person interacts with friends/family, and the tendency to move too quickly to marriage without spending requisite time to get to know each other. |
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| What stage of the funnel of love is speed dating operated on? |
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| What do women see speed dating as? |
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| as an opportunity to find a new partner. |
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| What do men see speed dating as? |
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| As an opportunity to explore personality of person. |
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| What provides newly divorced individuals a way to find dates? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. Usually, divorced individuals tend to marry other divorced individuals. |
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| gay marriage is legal in what 4 states. |
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| Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. |
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| In which countries have legalized same sex marriage. |
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| Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, and South Africa. |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. More than half of the percentage of U.S. adult population do not approve of gay marriage. |
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| are moral guidelines for making sexual choices in nonmarital, marital, heterosexual, and homosexual relationships. |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. Less than 50 percent of undergraduates believes that having oral sex ins't really having sex. |
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| belief system based on unconditional allegiance to the authority of religion, tradition, law, or science. |
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| decisions are made in the context of a particular situation. Ok for sex when committed for example. |
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| the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. |
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| TRUE OR FALSE. More women than men report being hedonistic? |
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| the view that encourages and accepts sexual expression of men more than women. Men still gain status and women lose from disclosure of numerous sexual partners. |
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| three top reasons for sexual intercourse. |
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| pure attraction, desire for physical pleasure, and love. |
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