Human Sexual Behavior: Relationships

This is not comprehensive so please read the book

• Factors affecting intimacy
• Role of proximity, familiarity, similarity in intimacy
• Mate value in dating selection
• Matching and attraction
• Waist hip ratio
• Current normative patterns of marriage, single with children
• Cohabitation
• High sex ratio vs low sex ratio
• Sex differences in actuality
• Androgyny and traditionalism in relationships
• Reactance
• Construct, operational definition, dependent variable
• Correlation/association vs causation
• Positive and negative correlation
• Attachment styles, consequences (be able to apply it)
• Designs: experimental, correlational, longitudinal, descriptive
• Principles of Attraction (all associated factors)
• Case of Jeffrey
• Case of Rasheed and Rachel
• First Impressions
• Need to belong
• Evolutionary theory and attraction (all associated factors)
• Primacy and recency effect
• Confirmatory bias (and its affect on relationships)
• Self-serving bias
• Enhancement bias, verification bias (and its affect on relationships)
• Actor-observer bias
• Sampling of subjects, uniqueness of volunteer subjects
• Stimulus-value-role theory
• Problems with memory recall/memory is reconstructive
• Online dating

50 questions, multiple choice, bring a scantron and #2 pencil