Interpersonal Communication MCQ

Researcher ellen langer uses the terms _________ and _________ to describe the way that we listen.

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Correct Answer: Mindful/mindless

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Research has shown that emotional ________ means emotions can spread from person to person.

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Correct Answer: Contagion

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Cultures that place great value on family, duty, order, and hierarchy are considered ____________.

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Correct Answer: Collectivistic

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Cultures fostering a short-term orientation believe that __________.

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Correct Answer: Humility is a virtue only for women (not men)

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The ultimate goal of perception checking is ____________.

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Correct Answer: Achieving mutual understanding

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Being ________ means that each partner relies fairly equally on the other to meet needs.

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Correct Answer: Interdependent

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The tension between personal freedom and shared activities is the _____ dialectic.

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Correct Answer: Autonomy vs. connection

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_____ involves favorable explanations for why others have behaved in a certain way.

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Correct Answer: Mitigating information

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If i say ?here the drink bring,? i have violated a(n) __________ rule of our language.

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Correct Answer: Syntactic

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There are ____ steps, or essentials, of interpersonal conversation according to the video lecture.

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Correct Answer: 5

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The more impersonal the interaction between people, the more likely they will __________.

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Correct Answer: Respond to each other according to societal rules.

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The ________________ is what the word suggests or implies and gives words an emotional impact.

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Correct Answer: Connotation

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Revealing information about one’s self to others is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Self-disclosure

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Rationalizing or inventing untrue explanations of your behavior that sound acceptable are examples of ______.

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Correct Answer: Distorting critical information

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When you evaluate yourself, your partner, or the relationship by standards of what is ideal, which turning point have you reached?

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Correct Answer: Interpersonal/normative

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When you evaluate yourself, your partner, or the relationship by standards of what is ideal, which turning point have you reached?

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Correct Answer: Interpersonal/normative

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Which communication strategy causes people to feel valued and respected?

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Correct Answer: Confirming communication

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The overall emotional feeling, or temperature, of the relationship is called (the) ______.

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Correct Answer: Relational climate

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Which symbol reflects a behavioral action that reflects and builds relational culture?

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Correct Answer: A nickname

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All of the following are strategies for handling dialectical tensions EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Transition

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A relationship that can be compared to a still, lifeless pond wherein partners experience or express a sense of hopelessness has reached which of the following stages of coming apart?

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Correct Answer: Stagnating

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According to the Model of Interaction Stages, which is a stage of “coming together?”

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Correct Answer: Intensifying

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Considering the potential costs and rewards of a relationship is part of (the) ______.

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Correct Answer: Social Exchange Theory

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Considering the potential costs and rewards of a relationship is part of (the) ______.

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Correct Answer: Social Exchange Theory

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Perceptions of events that transform relationships are called

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Correct Answer: Turning point

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According to social exchange theory relationships progress toward intimacy as a result of self-disclosure from both partners.

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Correct Answer: False

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According to social exchange theory personal relationships are formed on the basis of personal ____________ comparisons.

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Correct Answer: Cost-benefit

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The degree to which a person’s actions and personality are deemed pleasing and desirable to others is called social attractiveness

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Correct Answer: True

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The act of revealing information about oneself to others is called

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Correct Answer: Self-disclosure

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According to relational dialectics theory the communication patterns in relationships arise from a series of tensions based on _________________held by relationship partners.

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Correct Answer: Both of the above

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The unique private world relationship __________ create and maintain through their communication.

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Correct Answer: Partners

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The overall emotional feeling, or temperature, of a relationship is called

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Correct Answer: Relational climate

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Proximity may be

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Correct Answer: Both of the above

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Proximity may be

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Correct Answer: Both of the above

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Physical attraction refers to

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Correct Answer: Pleasing bodily traits

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The dialectical tension resulting from simultaneous needs for sharing information and for concealing information in relationships is known as

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Correct Answer: Openness and closedness

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The dialectical tension resulting from simultaneous needs for new experiences and for routines in relationships is called novelty and predictability

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Correct Answer: True

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Model of interaction stages explains the typical pattern of how communication progresses relationships through _____ stages of coming together and ______ stages of coming apart.

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Correct Answer: 5,5

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Media multiplexity assumes that tie strength drives patterns of media use between individuals.

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Correct Answer: True

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Matching hypothesis is a proposition that people tend to form relationships with others of comparable levels of

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Correct Answer: Physical attractiveness

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Communication with or between persons who approach one another as individuals in a relationship is known as

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Correct Answer: Interpersonal communication

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Imagined trajectories are personal understandings of the various paths________ can follow and where those paths lead

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Correct Answer: Relationships

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Communication situations in which the affection that develops through computer-mediated communication equal or surpass what happens face to face is known as

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Correct Answer: Hyperpersonal communication

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The tendency to allow perceptions of one negative trait to influence perceptions of other negative traits is known as

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Correct Answer: Horns effect

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The tendency to allow perceptions of one _______ trait to influence perceptions of other _______traits is known as Halo effect

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Correct Answer: Positive, positive

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Messages and interactions that make people feel devalued and disrespected are known as

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Correct Answer: Disconfirming communication

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Defensive communication attempt to attack someone

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Correct Answer: False

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Confirming communications make people feel

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Correct Answer: B & C

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The dialectical tension resulting from simultaneous needs for independence and for togetherness in relationships is known as Autonomy and Connectedness

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Correct Answer: True

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