Textbook 9.2 & 11.1-3, & 16.2-4

Question 1

ABCDE of Adult Friendships:

Answer 1

Acquaintance, buildup, continuation, deterioration, and ending.

Question 2

3 Basic Components of Love:

Answer 2

passion (intense desire), intimacy (emotional closeness), and commitment (long-term dedication

Question 3

The theory that people find romantic partners based on similarities in traits, values, and interests:

Answer 3

Assortative Mating

Question 4

When people in committed, intimate, sexual relationships live together without being married:

Answer 4

Cohabitation

Question 5

A broad term referring to any outcome related to the success of a marriage:

Answer 5

Marital Success

Question 6

A subjective evaluation of the couple’s relationship across multiple dimensions:

Answer 6

Marital Quality

Question 7

The degree to which spouses adapt to each other over time:

Answer 7

Marital Adjustment

Question 8

A global assessment of one’s happiness and contentment in marriage:

Answer 8

Marital Satisfaction

Question 9

The degree of similarity between partners in terms of values and interests:

Answer 9

Homogany

Question 10

A relationship theory that suggests partners contribute unique qualities to a relationship that the other partner finds difficult to obtain elsewhere:

Answer 10

Exchange Theory

Question 11

A model proposing that marital quality is influenced by how couples handle stress, taking into account their vulnerabilities and available resources:

Answer 11

Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model

Question 12

A family structure consisting only of parents and their children, common in Western societies:

Answer 12

Nuclear Family

Question 13

A family structure in which grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children, common worldwide:

Answer 13

Extended Family

Question 14

Issues pertaining to management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of the body and memorial services, and distribution of assets:

Answer 14

End-of-Life Issues

Question 15

Way for people to make their choices known about how they do and do not want their lives to end:

Answer 15

Final Scenario

Question 16

Approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management, or palliative care, and death with dignity:

Answer 16

Hospice

Question 17

Care that is focused on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of disease at any point during the disease process:

Answer 17

Palliative Care

Question 18

Document in which a person states their wishes about life support and other treatments

Answer 18

Living Will

Question 19

Document in which an individual appoints someone to act as their agent for healthcare decisions:

Answer 19

Healthcare Power of Attorney

Question 20

State or condition caused by loss through death:

Answer 20

Bereavement

Question 21

Sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss:

Answer 21

Grief

Question 22

Ways in which people express their grief:

Answer 22

Mourning

Question 23

Psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement:

Answer 23

Grief Work

Question 24

Changes in behavior related to feelings of sadness on the anniversary date of a loss:

Answer 24

Anniversary Reaction

Question 25

Model for understanding grief that is based on (1) the context of the loss, (2) continuation of subjective meaning associated with loss, (3) changing representations of the lost relationship over time, and (4) the role of coping and emotion regulation processes:

Answer 25

Four-Component Model

Question 26

Approach that not only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss but also views extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that may increase distress:

Answer 26

Grief-Work-as-Rumination Hypothesis

Question 27

View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented stressors:

Answer 27

Dual-Process Model (DPM)

Question 28

Expression of grief that is distinguished from depression and from normal grief in terms of separation distress and traumatic distress:

Answer 28

Complicated or Prolonged Grief Disorder

Question 29

Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes being preoccupied with the deceased to the point that it interferes with everyday functioning, having upsetting memories of the deceased, longing and searching for the deceased, and feeling isolated with the loss:

Answer 29

Separation Distress

Question 30

Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes disbelief about the death; mistrusting others, feeling angry, and being detached from others as a result of the death; feeling shocked by the death; and experiencing the physical presence of the deceased:

Answer 30

Traumatic Distress

Question 31

Feeling of anxiety or even fear of death and dying:

Answer 31

Death Anxiety

Question 32

Theory that addresses the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality:

Answer 32

Terror Management Theory