Human Communication 6Th Edition By Judy Pearson – Test Bank

Human Communication 6Th Edition By Judy Pearson – Test Bank

Chapter 06
Interpersonal Communication

1.
Explain the concept of interpersonal relationships.
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Bloom’s level: Understand
2. Define behavioral flexibility and explain why it is an important concept.
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Bloom’s level: Understand
3. Explain the needs for inclusion, affection, and control and how they are related to interpersonal communication.
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4. Compare and contrast symmetrical and complementary relationships.
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5. List and describe some essential interpersonal communication behaviors as noted in the text.
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6. Which factors affect appropriate self-disclosure?
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7. Explain how relationships develop.
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8. Explain how relationships deteriorate.
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9. What is self-disclosure and why is it important in interpersonal communication?
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10. Discuss the implications of influencing others in interpersonal relationships.
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11. How can you increase your behavioral flexibility?
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12. Discuss why it may be a mistake to only consider the positive aspects of interpersonal communication and personal relationships.
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13. Explain why the term plateau is not used to describe the relationship maintenance stage of personal relationships.
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14. Discuss how Baxter and colleagues’ notion of relational dialectics can be used to explain what happens in the relationship maintenance stage of personal relationships.
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15. Identify and explain at least two examples of relationship dialectics.
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16. Explain what compliance resisting is and provide an example from one of your interpersonal relationships.
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17. Discuss how the terms responsiveness, similarity, and complimentary explain potential reasons for forming relationships.
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18. Discuss three motivations, as explained in the textbook, that people have for terminating relationships.
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19. Using terms from the chapter, identify and describe three reasons for initiating relationships.
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20. Explain the Johari window’s quadrants.
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21. Provide an example of how compliance-gaining might be used in an interpersonal conversation.
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22. Discuss the importance of personal idioms and rituals in relationships. Provide an example of each.
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23. Explain the process of bargaining in interpersonal relationships. What are the essential features of bargaining?
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24. Explain the concept of friendship and its importance in our lives.
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25. William Schultz cited three basic interpersonal needs that we satisfy through others: the need for inclusion, the need for affection, and the need for control.
TRUE
Bloom’s level: Remember
26. A complementary relationship is one in which the two people mutually reinforce each other with compliments.
FALSE
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27. In a symmetrical relationship, Helen might do the family budget because Harry hates math.
FALSE
Bloom’s level: Understand
28. Bargaining is when two parties attempt to reach an agreement about what each should give and receive in a transaction between them.
TRUE
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29. Conflict can be a constructive and creative aspect of relationships.
TRUE
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30. Conflict is always detrimental to relationships.
FALSE
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31. In the Johari window, the hidden area includes information that you know but others do not know.
TRUE
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32. Interpersonal communication includes dyadic (two-person) and small-group communication.
TRUE
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33. Commitment is the first stage of relational development.
FALSE
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34. Developing rituals together occurs as people maintain their relationships.
FALSE
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35. Initially in a relationship we are more interested in a person’s attractiveness, but later we are more interested in their empathy, care, and concern.
TRUE
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36. A person in a wheelchair who tells you that she is handicapped is providing you with a self-disclosure.
FALSE
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37. Behavior flexibility is important because people are in constant flux.
TRUE
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38. Behavior flexibility is demonstrated by the man who can be tender with his child, loving to his wife, and courageous in his job as a firefighter.
TRUE
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39. The dialectical theory of Baxter and colleagues describes the maintenance stage of relationships as a plateau.
FALSE
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40. Dialectic theory assumes that relationships remain relatively stable and unchanging over time.
FALSE
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41. Friendships are maintained similarly, regardless of the intent of the relational partners.
FALSE
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42. Interpersonal relationships are always positive situations.
FALSE
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43. People in a mutual romance situation report the most relationship maintenance behaviors.
TRUE
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44. Aggressiveness is the same thing as argumentativeness.
FALSE
Bloom’s level: Remember
45. Disclosure generally increases as relational intimacy increases.
TRUE
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46. As we become closer to another person, we are more likely to reveal negative information about ourselves.
TRUE
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47. Extremely high and low levels of self-disclosure are associated with high levels of satisfaction with a relationship.
FALSE
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48. Communication privacy management explains how people determine what rules and boundaries govern what they will and will not disclose.
TRUE
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49. Personal idioms are understood only by you.
FALSE
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50. In bargaining all parties must perceive that more than one potential agreement could be reached.
TRUE
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51. People in interpersonal relationships generally have interacted for some period of time.
TRUE
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52. Relationship maintenance occurs after people in a relationship have bonded.
FALSE
Bloom’s level: Remember
53. There is no way to reduce defensiveness.
FALSE
Bloom’s level: Remember
54. Pria’s boyfriend Leonard doesn’t tell her about his family anymore. This makes her upset with their relationship.
What factor affecting self-disclosure can be identified here?
A. Disclosure might be avoided for a variety of reasons.
B. Disclosure tends to be reciprocal.
C. Disclosure helps build relationships.
D. Relational satisfaction and disclosure are curvilinearly related.
Bloom’s level: Understand
55. Grayson doesn’t talk about his parents’ divorce with his girlfriend because it is still a painful subject to discuss. What factor affecting self-disclosure can be identified here?
A. Disclosure might be avoided for a variety of reasons.
B. Disclosure tends to be reciprocal.
C. Disclosure helps build relationships.
D. Relational satisfaction and disclosure are curvilinearly related.
Bloom’s level: Understand
56. Which of the following would be a good example of self-disclosure?
A. You tell the person you meet that you are nearly six feet tall.
B. You tell the person you meet that you are an African American.
C. You tell the person you meet that you are getting bald.
D. You tell the person that you meet that your parents were originally from Mississippi.
Bloom’s level: Understand
57. The opposite of defensive communication is
A. descriptive communication.
B. supportive communication.
C. provisional communication.
D. neutral communication.
Bloom’s level: Remember
58. The concept that suggests that your roommate is more likely to become your friend than a person ten blocks away is known as
A. proximity.
B. similarity.
C. collaboration.
D. familiarity.
Bloom’s level: Understand
59. Iakopa is good at writing and understanding literature; Marian is a whiz at math and statistics; together they make a great pair. The concept of friendship illustrated here is
A. symmetry.
B. complementarity.
C. responsiveness.
D. proximity.
Bloom’s level: Understand
60. What is one strategy for appropriate self-disclosure in interpersonal relationships?
A. Gradually decrease disclosure as your relationship develops.
B. Disclose all information, even if it might cause you personal harm.
C. Reveal information to others as they reveal information to you.
D. Remember that disclosure is the same across all cultures.
Bloom’s level: Remember
61. “The ability to alter behavior in order to adapt to new situations and to relate in new ways when necessary” is a definition of
A. androgyny.
B. behavioral flexibility.
C. passages.
D. complementary relationships.
Bloom’s level: Remember
62. Which association is NOT part of the textbook definition of interpersonal relationships?
A. one between two or more people who are interdependent
B. one between two or more people who have interacted for some period of time
C. one between two or more people who use some consistent patterns of interaction
D. one between two or more people who exhibit affection toward each other
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63. Which of the following descriptions applies to someone with an interpersonal relationship as defined in the book?
A. a father who left his family long ago and believes that he has a relationship with a child he has not seen or heard from for years
B. a guy who drops into the restaurant every couple of months, knows the waitress’s first name, and believes that he has an interpersonal relationship with her
C. a married couple that have quarreled with each other for years
D. a woman who cannot remember the names of all the men she has dated in the last year
Bloom’s level: Understand
64. According to William Schultz, three interpersonal needs that are satisfied through interaction with others are
A. inclusion, affection, and control.
B. physical well-being, safety, and security.
C. inclusion, self-actualization, and socialization.
D. esteem, affection, and control.
Bloom’s level: Remember
65. Which of the following is a good example of a complementary relationship?
A. She likes him a lot, but he doesn’t think much of her.
B. She is shy, and he likes to speak for both of them.
C. She and he are both good at math, so together they do the family budget.
D. She and he like food, so they both enjoy every meal.
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66. A relationship in which the two people are very similar is called
A. a complementary relationship.
B. a symmetrical relationship.
C. a cost-benefit relationship.
D. an independent relationship.
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67. Which type of need can only be fulfilled through interpersonal interaction?
A. safety
B. affection
C. security
D. information
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68. Rashi and Anita marry because they are of the same cultural background. This is most likely what type of relationship?
A. asymmetrical
B. symmetrical
C. co-cultural
D. ethnocentric
Bloom’s level: Understand
69. Which relational dialectic involves tensions surrounding the need for consistency in a relationship as well as “newness and novelty”?
A. integration and separation
B. expression and privacy
C. stability and change
D. old and new
Bloom’s level: Remember
70. Raymond and Terry have a strong relationship and share many things with each other. At times, however, Raymond feels that Terry wants to know what he is doing at all times. Which dialectical tension is Raymond most likely experiencing?
A. integration and separation
B. expression and privacy
C. stability and change
D. old and new
Bloom’s level: Understand
71. Rosa and Mike are out on a date. During the course of conversation, Mike tells Rosa that his parents recently got divorced. After hearing this, Rosa feels compelled to tell Mike that her parents were divorced when she was very young. What factor affecting self-disclosure can be identified here?
A. Disclosure might be avoided for a variety of reasons.
B. Disclosure tends to be reciprocal.
C. Disclosure helps build relationships.
D. Relational satisfaction and disclosure are curvilinearly related.
Bloom’s level: Understand
72. In which stage of how friends develop do people think of themselves as friends and begin to establish their own
private ways of interacting?
A. role-limited interaction
B. friendly relations
C. nascent friendship
D. stabilized friendship
Bloom’s level: Remember
73. In relationships, formalized patterns of actions or words that are followed regularly and are indicators of relational
uniqueness are called
A. personal idioms.
B. relational dialectics.
C. uncertainty reducers.
D. rituals.
Bloom’s level: Remember
74. Which of the following is NOT one of the three stages in interpersonal relationships?
A. social penetration
B. relational development
C. relational deterioration
D. relational maintenance
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75. In which stage of how friends develop do people determine that they have mutual interests or other common
ground?
A. role-limited interaction
B. friendly relations
C. nascent friendship
D. stabilized friendship
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76. Relationships in which the two people are not romantically involved but have a sexual relationship are called
A. nascent friends.
B. stabilized friendships.
C. friends with benefits.
D. diminished friendships.
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77. Which of the following is a reason people terminate relationships?
A. aggressiveness
B. compliance-gaining
C. personal idioms
D. behavioral flexibility
Bloom’s level: Remember
Category # of Questions
Bloom’s level: Remember 41
Bloom’s level: Understand 36