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Communication

Q: In bargaining all parties must perceive that more than one potential agreement could be reached.
Q: People in interpersonal relationships generally have interacted for some period of time.
Q: Relationship maintenance occurs after people in a relationship have bonded.
Q: There is no way to reduce defensiveness.
Q: Prias boyfriend Leonard doesnt tell her about his family anymore. This makes her upset with their relationship. What factor affecting self-disclosure can be identified here? a. Disclosure might be avoided for a variety of reasons. b. Disclosure tends to be reciprocal. c. Disclosure helps build relationships. d. Relational satisfaction and disclosure are curvilinearly related.
Q: Grayson doesnt talk about his parents divorce with his girlfriend because it is still a painful subject to discuss. What factor affecting self-disclosure can be identified here? a. Disclosure might be avoided for a variety of reasons. b. Disclosure tends to be reciprocal. c. Disclosure helps build relationships. d. Relational satisfaction and disclosure are curvilinearly related.
Q: Which of the following would be a good example of self-disclosure? a. You tell the person you meet that you are nearly six feet tall. b. You tell the person you meet that you are an African American. c. You tell the person you meet that you are getting bald. d. You tell the person that you meet that your parents were originally from Mississippi.
Q: The opposite of defensive communication is a. descriptive communication. b. supportive communication. c. provisional communication . d. neutral communication.
Q: A person in a wheelchair who tells you that she is handicapped is providing you with a self-disclosure.
Q: Behavior flexibility is important because people are in constant flux.
Q: Behavior flexibility is demonstrated by the man who can be tender with his child, loving to his wife, and courageous in his job as a firefighter.
Q: The dialectical theory of Baxter and Montgomery describes the maintenance stage of relationships as a plateau.
Q: Dialectic theory assumes that relationships remain relatively stable and unchanging over time.
Q: Friendships are maintained similarly, regardless of the intent of the relational partners.
Q: Interpersonal relationships are always positive situations.
Q: People in a mutual romance situation report the most relationship maintenance behaviors.
Q: Aggressiveness is the same thing as argumentativeness.
Q: Disclosure generally increases as relational intimacy increases.
Q: As we become closer to another person, we are more likely to reveal negative information about ourselves.
Q: Extremely high and low levels of self-disclosure are associated with high levels of satisfaction with a relationship.
Q: Interpersonal communication includes dyadic (two-person) and small-group communication.
Q: Commitment is the first stage of relational development.
Q: Developing rituals together occurs as people maintain their relationships.
Q: Initially in a relationship we are more interested in a persons attractiveness, but later we are more interested in their empathy, care, and concern.
Q: Bargaining is when two parties attempt to reach an agreement about what each should give and receive in a transaction between them.
Q: Conflict can be a constructive and creative aspect of relationships.
Q: Conflict is always detrimental to relationships.
Q: In the Johari window, the hidden area includes information that you know but others do not know.
Q: Using terms from the chapter, identify and describe three reasons for initiating relationships.
Q: Explain the Johari windows quadrants.
Q: Provide an example of how compliance-gaining might be used in an interpersonal conversation.
Q: Discuss the importance of personal idioms and rituals in relationships. Provide an example of each.
Q: Explain the process of bargaining in interpersonal relationships. What are the essential features of bargaining?
Q: Explain the concept of friendship and its importance in our lives.
Q: William Schultz cited three basic interpersonal needs that we satisfy through others: the need for inclusion, the need for affection, and the need for control.
Q: A complementary relationship is one in which the two people mutually reinforce each other with compliments.
Q: In a symmetrical relationship, Helen might do the family budget because Harry hates math.
Q: Explain what compliance resisting is and provide an example from one of your interpersonal relationships.
Q: Discuss how the terms responsiveness, similarity, and complimentary explain potential reasons for forming relationships.
Q: Discuss three motivations, as explained by the textbook, that people have for terminating relationships.
Q: Explain how relationships deteriorate.
Q: What is self-disclosure and why is it important in interpersonal communication?
Q: Discuss the implications of influencing others in interpersonal relationships.
Q: How can you increase your behavioral flexibility?
Q: Discuss why it may be mistaken to only consider the positive aspects of interpersonal communication and personal relationships.
Q: Explain why the term plateau is not used to describe the relationship maintenance stage of personal relationships.
Q: Discuss how Baxter and Montgomerys notion of relational dialectics can be used to explain what happened in the relationship maintenance stage of personal relationships.
Q: Identify and explain at least two examples of relationship dialectics.
Q: Egocentrism is defensiveness carried to an extreme.
Q: Explain the concept of interpersonal relationships.
Q: Define behavioral flexibility and explain why it is an important concept.
Q: Explain the needs for inclusion, affection, and control and how they are related to interpersonal communication.
Q: Compare and contrast symmetrical and complementary relationships.
Q: List and describe some essential interpersonal communication behaviors as noted by the text.
Q: Which factors affect appropriate self-disclosure?
Q: Explain how relationships develop.
Q: Information in short-term memory is, on average, limited to about 20 seconds in duration.
Q: The lecture cues which indicate main and subordinate points are called importance cues.
Q: Listening is the process of receiving aural stimuli.
Q: Hearing is difficult to avoid because it is physiological; listening is easier to avoid because it is psychological.
Q: You hear with your brain; you listen with your ear.
Q: Listening for enjoyment involves challenging the speakers message by evaluating its accuracy, meaningfulness, and utility.
Q: Pseudolistening is not really a barrier to effective listening but rather a strategy to avoid listening when you do not want to.
Q: When critically thinking about a message, considering the context in which the message is delivered is important in evaluating that message.
Q: A person responds by asking, Are you suggesting that I am not doing my job on this project? You could classify the response as an example of defensiveness.
Q: You wouldnt think that way if you had been a cop as long as I have is an example of experiential superiority.
Q: Effective listening includes utilizing both verbal and nonverbal communication.
Q: Women listen in order to solve problems, and men listen to understand the other persons emotions.
Q: When paraphrasing the speakers message to check your understanding of it, you should avoid I statements.
Q: When communicating with others online, you must pay particular attention to the few nonverbal cues that are evident in order to be an effective listener.
Q: Critical listening is an advanced type of empathic listening.
Q: Long-term recall can hold approximately seven chunks of information.
Q: Interpretation is the goal of observation; reporting is the goal of inferences.
Q: The main goal of empathic listening is to understand what the other person is saying.
Q: Write a dialogue (a scripted conversation between two people) in which you demonstrate verbal skills of effective listening. In the right margin label each skill.
Q: List and explain at least five nonverbal skills of effective listening.
Q: Write an essay in which you define active listening.
Q: Write an essay in which you reveal the answer to the question, What is critical thinking?
Q: What is the difference between observation and inference? Define the two terms and give an example of each in your essay.
Q: List and explain three ways in which you can check your understanding of a speaker.
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