A2 Psychology - Relationship Quiz!!

This is a quiz for the Unit 3 topic "Relationships". There is variation in Theories and studies that you can study so if you haven't heard of some of the ones i have used, don't panic, it probably means that you know different things.

One some of the (wrong!) answers i have made some things up so if you've never heard of them, don't worry, they probably have nothing to so with the subject or the topic. 

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One theory of the formation of relationships is "Reward/Needs Satisfaction". What is the other theory?
Matching Hypothesis
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Argyles' 7 human needs helps explain the theory of reward/needs satisfaction through...
Operant Conditioning
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"Matching Hypothesis" was created by...
Walster et al
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The basic premise of economic theories in the maintenance of relationships is...
You focus on costs/benefits of the relationship
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One of the tools used in Social Exchange is the Comparison Level for alternatives, where you compare your current relationship to your former relationships. True or False?
False
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In Equity Theory, a partner puts in some costs but the other partner benefits them in a different way. What does this mean?
The profit level remains the same for each partner
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Avoidance, Balance and Directness are all part of Ayres' (1983)...
Maintenance Strategies
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Duck's reasons for relationship break up include pre-exisiting doom, mechanical failure and...
Sudden Death
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Who created the 6-stage model for the explanation of the breakdown of relationships?
Rollie and Duck, 2006
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Who created the 5-stage model for the explanation of the breakdown of relationships?
Lee, 1984
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Clarke and Hatfield (1989) provided evidence to what?
The relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour
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Why are some characteristics or traits passed on, even though they make it difficult for survival?
As it takes someone strong and healthy to maintain them and therefore they
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"Any investment made to an offspring increases the chance of that offspring surviving, at the expense of the parents ability to invest in any other offspring". Who devised this definition of Parental Investment?
Trivers, 1972
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'Sex differences' is one explanation of evolutionary explanations of parental investment. What is another explanation?
Parent-Offspring Conflict
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What was the main piece of evidence that was created, supporting Hazan and Shaver's Theory of Love as an attachment?
Hazan and Shaver's Love Quiz, 1987
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In Freud's Psychoanalytical Theory of influences of childhood and adolescent experiences, the adolescent experience is determined wether you have a genital fixation. What is the childhood experience determined by?
A phallic fixation
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Who stated that Western relationships had different concerns to non-western cultures?
Moghaddam et al, 1993
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Western Relationships are said to be voluntary, individualistic and temporary. True or False?
True
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Yelsma and Athappily (1998) performed a study into 'permanent vs temporary' of relationships in different cultures. What did they find?
Divorce was higher in love marriages than arranged ones
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Due to the over-generalisation in cultural differences in relationships, what is formed as a result?
Alpha and Beta Bias
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The basic premise of economic theories in the maintenance of relationships is...

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One of the tools used in Social Exchange is the Comparison Level for alternatives, where you compare your current relationship to your former relationships. True or False?

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Lauren

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Very difficult, but some of the things on here, particularly Argyles, is not in my supposedly AQA textbook.

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