COMM 2107 - CHAPTER 10

Compared to friendships sustained through face to face contact, friendships sustained via email or the internet are less personal and committed

False

Lesbians and gays invest less in friendships than do heterosexuals.

False

Men don't disclose personal feelings or vulnerabilities to their friends.

False

Another reason women and men differ in how likely they are to maintain long-distance friendships is that the sexes tend to have different views of the nucleus of closeness.

True

Asking questions to find out what the other person means helps us engage in dual perspective.

True

According to your book, all of the following is included in the nature of friendship except:

assertion

An example of this phase is: A businessperson may joke or engage in small talk to see whether an associate wants to move beyond the acquaintance level of relating.

friendly relations

An example of this phase is: After class, Jean makes a comment about the teacher to Paula. If Paula responds with her impressions of the teacher, she conveys the relationship-level message that shes interested in interacting.

friendly relations

An example of this phase is: One person in an Internet newsgroup invites another member of the group to engage in individual exchange of ideas.

friendly relations

During this stage, each person checks out with other to see whether common ground and interests exist.

friendly relations.

Married men tend to name as their best friend their:

wives

According to a recent study, college students reported that the ____ of them have had sex with a friend of the other sex at least once.

51%

Most friendships face the challenge of distance, and many dont survive it.

True

Mothers who sustain long-distance friendships report that, when they visit, they are seldom alone because their children need attention and care. Even though these mothers say they miss the intimacy of uninterrupted conversations, they value each other enough to sustain friendships under the terms that are possible.

True

Women are more willing to tolerate less-than-ideal circumstances for being with friends.

True

In this third stage, we start moving beyond social roles

moving toward friendship.

Women are more likely than men to sustain ties with friends who live at a distance.

True

The initial meeting is the first stages of interaction and possibly of friendship.

role-limited interaction

All of the following are external pressure to friendships except:

sexual attraction

Friendships that survive distance involve frequent e-mail contact, phone calls, letters, and visits.

True

Geographic distance is the reason the majority of high school friendships dissolve when students begin college.

True

A majority of North Americans have at least one long-distance friendship.

True

It takes money to finance trips and long distance calls and to pay for computers and Internet access. Thus, friends with greater economic resources are better able to maintain their relationships than are friends with less discretionary income.

True

Sex and gender also affect the endurance of long-distance friendships.

True

The nature and dynamics of friendships change throughout life. All of the following statements are supported by research about these dynamics EXCEPT:

adolescent females tend to define their friends as groups of people

During this stage, friends tend to rely on general scripts and stereotypes, because they don't have enough personal knowledge of each other to engage in dual perspective.

role-limited interaction

"Friends of the heart" are friends

who stay friends in spite of time and distance

During this stage, we tend to rely on standard social rules and roles. We tend to be polite and limit personal disclosures.

role-limited interaction

During this state, interactions are often awkward and laced with uncertainty because people havent worked out patterns for relating to others.

role-limited interaction.

Friendships generally begin with:

role-limited interaction.

Ngoc and Nikole have been friends for many years and share a high level of trust. Their friendship is best described as being in the ____ stage.

stabilized friendship

Women tend to provide more ____ emotional support for their friends than men. Select one:

verbal

Since there are no formal standards for friendships, there are also no consistent ideas for what counts as a friend or patterns of interaction between friends.

False

When friendships deteriorate or suffer serious violations, communication changes in unpredictable ways.

False

The likelihood of sustaining a long-distance friendship also depends on other factors, such as socioeconomic class and sex.

True

For individuals socialized in feminine speech communities, closeness in interpersonal relationships is primarily achieved through:

dialogue

The dimensions of trust include:

emotional reliability

Frank says he wants to go out to dinner and suggests a pizza at Marios. His best friend Stan replies, "Ah, thats where we always go. Im bored with Marios. Lets go somewhere different tonight." Frank says, "But I feel really comfortable at Marios—its so familiar." According to your book, Frank and Stan should do all the following except:

grow from differences

The clearest indication that a friendship is in the waning stage is:

less quality and quantity of communication