1. Intimate terrorism involves using violence to control a partner.
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True
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2. A style of communication that is direct and nonaggressive and typically involves problem solving is known as _______ .
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Integrative communication
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3. Informational familiarity certain information about your relational partner, such as your _______ .
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Both a & b
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4. Hyper Intimacy is sending ________ messages of interest and affection.
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Both a & b
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5. Hurtful messages are words that elicit psychological pain.
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True
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6. Being with a particular person is linked to more general life goals, such as happiness; it makes a relationship more desirable this statement is related to ________ .
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Goal-linking
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7. Yielding is an indirect and cooperative conflict style that involves one partner giving into and accommodating the other partner.
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True
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8. A style that focuses on attacking the other person’s self-concept, often with the intention of hurting the other person is known as _______ .
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Verbal aggressiveness
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9. Which of the correct statements about Stonewalling ?
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When a person builds a metaphorical wall around herself or himself, shuts down, and withdraws from interaction with another person
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10. The notion that the emotional state of one member of a dyad or group influences is known as _________ .
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Spillover effect
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11. Socialization effect is related to divorce .
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True
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12. A pattern that occurs when people repeatedly have conflict about the same issue over time is known as ________ .
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Serial arguing
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13. Relationship-enhancing attributions is a negative behavior that is attributed to causes that are ________ .
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All of these
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14. In punctuation both partners think that their negative communication is caused by the other person’s behavior .
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True
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15. This principle states that aggression or negative expressions beget more of the same is known as ________ .
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Principle of negative reciprocity
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16. A pattern where both partners engage in _______ behavior.
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Both a & b
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17. Physiological self-soothing involves taking a break from the conflict to calm down and regain one’s thoughts.
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True
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18. Mind reading Occurs when people assume (often mistakenly) that they know their partner’s _______ .
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All of these
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19. Mental maps are thinking about how your partner is ________ to understand his or her perspective.
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Both a & b
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20. The 5-to-1 ratio that John Gottman found happy couples to have in terms of positive to negative behaviors is known as ________ .
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Magic ratio
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21. When people rehash old arguments when they get into a new argument so that there are too many issues to deal with at once is known as ______ .
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Kitchen sinking
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22. Indirect fighting involves using passive-aggressive behaviors such as rolling one’s eyes or pulling away from one’s partner.
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True
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23. Four horsemen of the apocalypse is a destructive conflict pattern that includes behaviors like __________
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All of these
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24. Flaming is a hostile expression of emotions online through means such as swearing, insulting, and name-calling.
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True
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25. Threatening to do something that you do not really intend to do ,this statement is related to _______ .
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Empty threats
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26. Emotional flooding occurs when people become ______ by their partner’s expressions of negative emotion during a conflict situation.
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All of these
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27. _______ is interpersonal conflict that takes place in front of an active, engaged audience.
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Drama
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28. Distress-maintaining attributions is a negative behavior that is attributed to causes that are internal, stable, and global.
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True
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29. A persistent pattern that occurs when one person in a relationship usually wants to talk about problems or issues is known as ________ .
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30. Communication designed to defend oneself against attacks by deflecting blame is known as ________ .
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Defensiveness
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31. Personal attacks that blame someone else for a problem; one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is known as ______ .
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Criticisms
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32. Contempt is communication that conveys an air of superiority and often conveys a lack of respect.
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True
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33. Conflict is a ________ between two interdependent people who perceive that they have incompatible goals.
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Disagreement
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34. A direct and moderately cooperative conflict style that involves giving up some things you want to get other things you want is known as _______ .
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Compromising
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35. Complaints is a communication about ________ or behaviors that a person finds annoying or problematic.
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Both a & b
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36. Competitive fighting involves using verbally aggressive behaviors such as name-calling.
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True
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37. Collaborating is a _______ conflict style that involves creative problem solving and finding new solutions that meet both parties’ needs.
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Both a & b
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38. Chilling effect occurs when a less powerful person stays silent on an issue or avoids engaging someone .
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True
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39. Main purpose button pushing ________ something you know will be especially hurtful or upsetting to a friend or partner.
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Both a & b
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40. Avoiding is an ________ style that is neither inherently cooperative nor inherently uncooperative .
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Indirect conflict
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41. A perceptual process of assigning reasons or causes to one’s own behavior or that of others is known as _______ .
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Attribution
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42. Argumentativeness is a communication style that focuses on _______ .
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Both a & b
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43. Accommodation principle occurs when people are able to overcome the _________ to retaliate in response to negative behavior .
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Both a & b
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44. When feeling hurt and uncertain, people sometimes lash out by engaging in ______ or making empty relational threats. They purposely say or do something they know will be especially hurtful to the partner, including bringing up a taboo topic, insulting the partner with an offensive name, or looking away when the partner is talking.
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Button pushing
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45. Violent couples are most likely to engage in ______.
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High levels of negative reciprocity and low levels of positive reciprocity
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46. ______ interaction pattern occurs when one person wants to engage in conflict or makes demands on a partner and the other wants to avoid it.
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Demand-withdraw
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47. John avoids voicing his opinions and complaining to his wife because he often feels powerless and thinks that she will act aggressively toward him. This is an example of ______.
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Chilling effect
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48. People make attributions about behavior being stable versus unstable.
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True
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49. The collaborating style ______.
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Is direct and focuses on problem-solving that helps people find creative solutions
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50. During conflicting situations, negative emotions may become so intense that people automatically resort to the fight-or-flight response. Gottman suggested that ______ occurs when people become “surprised, overwhelmed, and disorganized” by their partner’s “expressions of negative emotion.”
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Emotional flooding
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51. The ______ is most useful when immediate compliance is necessary, or if one partner does not want to talk about a critical problem.
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Completing strategy
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52. Statements such as “you’re crazy” or “you can’t do anything right” are prototypical ways of communicating contempt.
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True
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53. Despite various negative effects, conflict can be ______.
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Beneficial when it’s managed productively
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54. What are the “four horsemen of the apocalypse” according to Gottman?
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Criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling
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55. When children reach late adolescence and early adulthood, conflict typically ______.
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Declines
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56. Competitive fighting is direct and uncooperative. What has competitive fighting been referred to as in the past?
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Distributive fighting
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57. When we examine how people communicate during conflict situations, we see that there are six conflict styles. Which of the following is not one of the six styles?
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Territorial
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58. When people are ______, a lack of compatibility can interfere with each person’s ability to reach personal goals.
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Interdependent
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