Interpersonal Case Study Quiz HS

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Harry and Sally's relationship progresses through Mark Knapp's stages of coming together and coming apart in a highly typical way.

False

Which relationship terminated during the film?

Harry and Helen

Sally and Harry want to introduce each other to their best friends, Marie, and Jess, so they arrange a dinner foursome. The events of the dinner show:

Jess and Marie, moving from the initiating stage into the experimenting stage because their relationship is coming together.

In the film, we see Harry and Jess engaging in social activities such as watching a football game and going to the batting cage. In examining qualities of friendships, these activities would be likely viewed as _______ activities.

Mutual Involvement

Harry's analysis high-maintenance and low-maintenance women is consistent with the behavioral predictions posited by which communication theory?

None of these. Harry's opinions are not supported by any of these theories.

Sally explains to Harry that her feelings about her relationship with Joe changed after her friend's little girl pointed out a family during a game of "I spy." Her explanation about how this led her to reexamine her relationship with Joe and to compare it to what she might want is most consistent with:

Social exchange theory

Use Thomas and Kilmann's taxonomy to answer this question. Harry explains that his ex-wife told him she was leaving him just moments before the movers arrived to move her things from their apartment. This would be characteristic of the ___ conflict style.

avoidant

During the road trip, Harry's question about Sally's breakup with her boyfriend, Sheldon, encourages self-disclosure that is _____ according to Social Penetration Theory.

deep

Harry's insistence that men and women can't be friends because sexual attraction gets in the way could be most appropriately analyzed using which communication framework?

dialectical tension in friendships, such as real/unreal tensions

Because of proximity and relatively deep and broad levels of self disclosure, it would be correct to say that the relationship between Harry and Sally moves into the integrating stage during the road trip.

false

Harry's assertion that men and women can't be friends is supported by the textbook's description of friendships and the spirit of equality because the text asserts that cross-sex friendships are inherently unequal. .

false

If we analyzed the conflict styles used by Harry and Sally in the film, we could easily conclude that both of them primarily use the competitive conflict style in most of their relationships because neither of them is ever prepared to apologize.

false

Sally's relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Joe, re-initiates twice during the course of the film.

false

The relationships depicted in this film, are primarily workplace friendships and relationships.

false

One of the older couples discusses their meeting in an elevator. The man describes riding up "9 extra floors" to be with the woman longer. We could most appropriately place this behavior in the initiating stage if they were not speaking, or the experimenting stage if they were speaking.

initiating/ experimenting

One of the older couples describes their history, where they were married, divorced, then remarried. The man describes seeing the woman after a number of years at a funeral, when he asks her "what are you doing after [the funeral]?" According to Knapp's relationship model, this moment would most likely be consistent with which relationship stage?

initiation

What communication concept is illustrated by Harry and Sally's conversation in the book store and restaurant when they describe their relationships with Helen and Joe respectively?

reciprocal self-disclosure

According to Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Harry's disclosures about his opinions and perspectives would be likely to lead Sally to:

reduce her cognitive uncertainty about Harry

Marie and Jess are Sally and Harry's best friends. During the double date, Marie and Jess experience:

social and physical attraction to each other.

At the end of the road trip, when Sally drops Harry off in New York City, their relationship enters the ___ stage of Knapp's Stages of Coming Together/Apart.

terminating

According to Social Penetration Theory, Marie and Sally's friendship probably includes both deep and broad self-disclosure.

true

At the end of the movie, Jess and Marie are presumably in the bonded stage.

true

During Harry and Sally's second meeting, he notes that Joe and Sally must be in the early stage of a relationship because Joe took her to the airport. Then Harry says, "I have never taken anyone to the airport in the beginning of a relationship because things move on and I never want anyone to say 'how come you never take me to the airport anymore.'" He could be discussing a differentiation behavior in a productive relationship.

true

Marie, Sally, and Alice display emotional intimacy with each other when they have lunch together after Sally and Joe break up.

true

The vignettes featuring older couples describing their relationship depict bonded relationships, according to Mark Knapp's Stages of Relationship Formation.

true

When Sally stops taking Harry's calls after the fight at Marie and Jess's wedding, she moves the relationship into the avoiding stage, according to Mark Knapp's Stages of Relationship Formation.

true


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