Interpersonal Communications Final

The most visible way disconfirming messages reinforce one another, as when one attack leads to another and another, is termed a(n)?

Escalatory conflict spiral

While on vacation with her family in Germany, Abigail criticized how Germans drove on the Autobahn compared to American freeway driving. According to the text, Abigail's attitude is considered.

Ethnocentrism

A high level of self-esteem guarantees interpersonal success

False

A non intimate-aggressive conflict relational style combines aggression and intimacy in a manner that might seem upsetting to outsiders but works within the relationship. Partners may fight but make up just a s aggressively.

False

According to Hodde, your sex role plays the biggest role in how effective a listener you are?

False

Advising is more passive listening style than prompting.

False

All truly interpersonal relationships will have all four dimensions of intimacy.

False

An androgynous individual has the worst chance of communicating with a variety of different people

False

By definition, an intimate relationship must exhibit all four intimacy dimensions.

False

Communication competence seeks to be either effective or appropriate

False

If you are a person who tells others "like it is" because you believe such truth is helpful and constructive, you will interpret similar behavior from others toward you the same way

False

Illustrators can stand on their own function as replacements for words.

False

In the stagnating stage, communicating between members starts to decrease in quantity and quality.

False

Low context cultures use language to maintain social harmony.

False

Members of individualistic cultures discourage expression of any negative emotions that might upset relationships among people in their "in-group"

False

Men are more likely to be in Friends with Benefits.

False

Mindless listening is rarely considered valuable, according to the text.

False

Most Western cultures have what is called a collective identity

False

Pragmatic rules are stated rules that helps us make sense of another message.

False

Some couples never experience distance in relationships.

False

Studies have shown that sexual harassment complaints are rare today because most people agree on their interpretations of what constitutes a "hostile work environment."

False

Supporting listening responses allow you to tell the other person how you think he/she feels.

False

Syntactic misunderstandings arise when people assign different meanings to the same words.

False

The "halo effect" is a perceptual tendency which causes us to be more generous in our judgement of ourselves over others

False

The most common form of acknowledgement is listening.

False

The win-win approach to conflict resolution requires parties to reach a solution through compromise.

False

What conflict style to choose should never be determined by the style you are most comfortable using.

False

Your sex role is the most important factor in how you will communicate with others

False

Your text argues that the complete and open expression of emotions is the one key to positive relationships.

False

Your text suggests to feel better you should first talk about how you fell and then act on that feeling.

False

The environment that communicators occupy are

Fields of experience that affect how they understand other's behaviors

Studies suggest that cognitive complexity actually increase one's chance of having satisfying communication in a variety of contexts

True

The three phases if perception (selection, organization, and interpretation) that take place in an individual's mind can occur in differing sequences, with one influencing another

True

Unchanging people or things become less noticeable, and thus occupy less of our attention than those that change

True

According to the textbook, which of the following is most characteristic of adaptors?

Unconscious

Statements that basically cancel the thought that precedes them are

"but" statements

Conflicting desires for both intimacy and the lack of it in an interpersonal relationship lead to the....?

Openness-Privacy Dialectic

The "ownership" of a problem almost always belongs to?

The person who brings it up

It may be appropriate to make a generalization about a certain people or group

True

Which is a major indicator of a committed Romantic Relationship?

All of the above: providing affection, providing support, showing respect

Which of the following is safe to post on a social networking site?

An alias

The ability to manage identities in different setting and cultures is a feature of

Communication competence

Of the following, what is not considered a risk of self-disclosure

Decrease in number of relationships

At which step in the win-win, collaborative process would you utilize the assertive message format?

Describe your problem and needs

When two opposing or incompatible forces exist simultaneously in an interpersonal relationship, the struggle to achieve these opposing goals creates what is called a..

Dialectical Tension

According to the text, a *Blank* prefers to text and converse about age appropriate topics.

Digital Immgrant

Nonverbal evidence of lying is most likely to occur when the deceiver?

Does not feel anxious or guilty about the lies

Roxanne's mood was affected by the excellent service she received at the coffee shop. This is best explained by the concept of

Emotional Contagion

Effective communicators have been found to

Have a wide range of behaviors from which to choose

In individualistic cultures, a view of the self would involve all of the following except

High value on tradition

Saying "You're a fantastic person" rather "You spent your whole weekend helping me move" is an example of

Higher Level Abstraction

Each of the following is an example of an emotional conflict statement except which one?

I'm bored and I want to go to a show.

Lilly calls Cameron to invite her to a party, leaving the message on Cameron's voicemail. After two days, Cameron still hasn't returned Lilly's call. Lilly might interpret this as what type of response?

Impervious

All of the following would be included in a good definition of empathy except which one?

It requires that your opinions match those of the other person

In cultures that stress formality in language

Language use defines social position

Which of the following is not one of the issues confronting highly masculine males according to the BSRI

Low Self Esteem

When a speaker uses powerful speech pattern he/she

May undermine relational goals to accomplish short term goals

All of the following are true about nonverbal communication except which one?

Nonverbal communication is universal for all cultures.

In mainstream U.S. society, we don't express very well or very frequently because

Of social rules and roles

To avoid fact inference confusion, the authors advise you to use the skill of

Perception Checking

Bernadette complains to Patrick that the volume on the TV is too loud; Patrick claims he can't hear the TV if he turns it down. What type of perceptual influence does this example illustrate?

Physiological

The most popular piece of language is?

Questioning

Brianne angrily waited three minutes at the counter before the clerk finished his phone conversation and signaled awareness that Brianne was waiting. Brianne would've felt better if the clerk had at least ( ) her while she was waiting.

Recognized

Which of the following is most likely to account for your tendency to overlook the faults of your new romantic partner?

Relational Roles

In class lecture, Mr. Hodde used an example of a comedian telling a fellow high school classmate to F*** off? This is a form of verbal aggressiveness. Which of the following comedians did Mr. Hodde refer to?

Ron White

Subscribing to the fallacy of catastrophic expectations can lead to

Self-Fulling Prophecies

All of the following elements are included in the transactional communication model introduced in ch 1 except

Sender

Which of the following does the text offer as a guideline for expressing emotion?

Share multiple feelings when appropriate

Studies of nonverbal communication across cultures reveal that?

Smiles and laughter are a universal signal of positive emotions.

If I say "Here the drink I bring" I have violated a(n) rule of our language.

Syntactic

Studies of nonverbal posture behaviors have found that?

Tensions and relaxation of muscles can be indicate status differences.

Studies of different cultures and conflict reveal that?

The aggressive/ assertive appropriate of individualistic cultures could be perceived at rude and insensitive in collectivist cultures.

One of the key differences between marriages that end in separation and those that are restored to their former intimacy is...

The communication that occurs when the partners are unsatisfied.

Which of the following does not typically occur in the intensifying stage of interpersonal relationship?

The parties begin to take on an identity as a social unit.

Which of the following best describes how undifferentiated people communicate

They lack masculine and feminine traits when it comes to communication

All of the following are true about except which one?

Touch in any of its forms can have positive effects

Acknowledgement is more confirming than recognition

True

Affinity messages can be either positive or negative.

True

Deception studies have found that deceivers are more likely to be found out when they don't feel very strongly about the information being hidden.

True

Which of the following is not true of deception detection?

We underestimate our abilities to detect others' lies