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Please answer these 20 questions. Please and thank you! 
1.) According to a study by Tagler and Jeffers (2013), women are more distressed by ______ infidelity, whereas men are more distressed by __________ infidelity.  
Question 1 options:
a) 
both sexual and emotional; sexual
b) 
emotional; sexual
c) 
sexual; emotional
d) 
emotional; both emotional and sexual
2.) Reactive aggression is related to _______ whereas proactive aggression is related to __________. 
Question 2 options:
a) 
physiological arousal; reinforcement
b) 
male perpetrators; female perpetrators
c) 
goal attainment; emotion dysregulation
d) 
coercive controlling violence; situational couple violence
3.) Willa is a researcher who takes an intraindividual perspective when explaining situational couple violence.  Willa is likely to study all of the following EXCEPT:
Question 3 options:
a) 
communication patterns between partners
b) 
levels of parental hostility and warmth
c) 
early exposure to interparental violence
d) 
intergenerational transmission of aggression
4.) Infidelity is the willingness to have sex with another person without being in a committed relationship.
Question 4 options:
a) 
False
b) 
True
5.) Bilateral aggression refers to the notion that individuals who are aggressive with their romantic partners also tend to be aggressive in other relationships (i.e., with their children).
Question 5 options:
a) 
True
b) 
False
6.) Moira and Johnny have a 7-year old son named David and a 5-year old daughter named Alexis.  Moira and Johnny occasionally argue with one another in front of their children. What does the research say about children as witnesses of their parents’ relationship conflict?
Question 6 options:
a) 
Moira and Johnny can protect their children by maintaining a positive emotional tone of voice during their conflicts.
b) 
Alexis and David can recognize when their parents resolve their conflicts, even if their parents try to mask the conflict with positive affect.
c) 
David and Alexis are still too young to understand or to be affected by the conflict between their parents.
d.) The more Alexis and David are exposed to their parents’ conflicts, the less they will be affected by them.  
7.) Individuals who adhere to a(n) __________ perspective of aggression tend to think about deficits in couple communication as one of the primary causes of aggressive behaviors.
Question 7 options:
a) 
interpersonal
b) 
intraindividual
c) 
relational
d) 
sociocultural
8.) Bella’s mother was neither responsive nor attentive to her throughout her childhood.  Bella is now likely to:
Question 8 options:
a) 
exhibit high levels of physiological arousal during arguments with her partner.
b) 
develop greater problem-solving skills.
c) 
show positive emotion and less negative emotion.
d) 
be willing to compromise in order to appease her partner.
9.) Women are more likely than men to begin a new relationship with the person that they cheated with.
Question 9 options:
a) 
True
b) 
False
10.) Research on situational couple violence (SCV) suggests that
Question 10 options:
a) 
it is often explained by personality characteristics
b) 
it is typically proactive
c) 
it is often related to problematic communication
d) 
men perpetrate SCV more than women
11.) ____________ is a relationship characteristic that can set the stage for infidelity.
Question 11 options:
a) 
Low sociosexuality
b) 
Low conflict
c) 
High neuroticism
d) 
Poor communication
12.) Owen hears his parents arguing on a regular basis.  The more he hears his parents argue, the more he becomes upset.  Owen’s behaviors can be attributed to which of the following?
Question 12 options:
a) 
becoming desensitized
b) 
developing an insecure avoidant attachment to parents
c) 
becoming sensitized
d) 
developing an insecure anxious attachment to parents
13.) Sociosexuality is conceptualized a a personal trait that is stable over time.
Question 13 options:
a) 
False
b) 
True
14.) Genetic factors play a stronger role in female infidelity than male infidelity.
Question 14 options:
a) 
False
b) 
True
15.) All of the following are individual predictors of infidelity, EXCEPT:
Question 15 options:
a) 
high levels of psychological distress
b) 
high sociosexuality
c) 
high self esteem
d) 
high narcissism
16.) Statistics on aggression vary depending on the perspective that you take.  For example, based on the ______ perspective,  aggression almost always involves women as victims and men as perpetrators.
Question 16 options:
a) 
family sociological
b) 
feminist
c) 
sociocultural
d) 
advocacy
17.) In one study, adolescents (from the same school) were asked to write down with whom they had been in a relationship in the past year.  Comparisons of the lists across individuals found that, more than half the time, adolescents:
Question 17 options:
a) 
lied about with whom they had been romantically involved to gain social approval.
b) 
were unaware of the romantic  relationships of their peers.
c) 
knew about the romantic relationships of their peers.
d) 
disagreed about whether they had been in a relationship with each other.
18.) ________ refers to an individual’s willingness to have sex with someone without being in a committed relationship with them.  
Question 18 options:
a) 
Disinhibition
b) 
Sociosexuality
c) 
Infidelity
d) 
Mate poaching
19.) People who engage in coercively controlling behaviors are more likely to be diagnosed with which mental illness? 
Question 19 options:
a) 
antisocial personality disorder
b) 
major depression
c) 
schizophrenia
d) 
post traumatic stress disorder
20.) And for your very last question of the semester: If you had a friend who was cheating on their fiancé(e), what would you do?
Question 20 options:
tell their partner, but anonymously because who needs the hassle of having a friend angry at you?
live and let live, it’s none of my business
buy them the cheapest possible wedding gift because yeah, that marriage isn’t going to last!
drop them off at the nearest church and tell them to repent