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All Systems can be described in terms of 3 characteristics:
a. Structure, function, and evolution
b. open, closed and random boundaries
c. constitutive, regulative, and negative roles.
d. Inclusion, control, and affection. |
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| A. Structure, function, and evolution. |
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In a positional family:
a. Lines of authority are hierarchically arranged.
b. Children usually have lots of opportunties to verbalize their own opinions.
c. All members defend and explain their positions to one another.
d. All the above. |
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| A. Lines of authority are hierarchically arranged. |
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In a person-Oriented family:
a. members use restricted codes exclusively
b. children have limited opportunties to verbalize their opinions.
c. power is related to age and gender.
d. members have an opportunity to use communication to try to influence each other |
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| d. members have an opportunity to use communication to try to influence each other |
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The smiths make family decisions by majority vote, this is an example of:
a. Consensus decison making
b. accommodation decision making.
c. de facto decision making.
d. random decision making. |
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| b. accommodation decision making. |
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After a 20 minute discussion on where to eat dinner, there is only one restaurant still open so the Jones have to eat there. This is an example of what style of decision-making?
a. Consensus decision making
b. accommodation decision making
c. De facto decision making
d. random decision making |
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| c. de facto decision making |
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The jacksons never succeed in making decisions and always have to let events decide for them. They use:
a. Consensus decision making
b. accommodation decision making
c. De facto decision making
d. random decision making |
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| c. de facto decision making |
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When the Bradys want to make a decision, everyone sits around the kitchen table and discusses the issue until agreement is reached, this is an example of:
a. Consensus decision making
b. accommodation decision making
c. De facto decision making
d. random decision making |
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| a. consensus decision making |
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In the brown household, mr. brown is quite remote. When he has something to say to the children, he funnels it through mrs. brown who passes it on to their daughter tina, as well as their son tom. As tina and tom frequelntly arent talking to their brother jackson, jackson often misses out on communication unless mrs. brown remembers to tell him. The network they use is,
a. a wheel netwrok
b. a Y network
c. an all channel network
d. a chain network with an isolate |
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| d. a chain network with an isolate |
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Which of the following can we tell for sure about the brown household descried in the question before about their communication how mr. brown funnels what he says through mrs. brown who passes it to daughter and son.
a. they are an enmeshed family.
b. they are person-oriented family
c. They use de facto decision making
d. they have a centralized network. |
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| d. they have a centralized network. |
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Braithwaite and Baxter (2006) studied which of the following issues about family?
a. resolution and management of sibilng conflict
b. factors leading to divorce
c. the impact of spousal violence on children.
d. nonresidential parents and steph-families |
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| d. nonresidential parents and step-familes. |
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What did Ashley Smith Do?
A. She was the first women to swim the english channel.
b. She convinvced her captor to release her and surrender himself.
c. She was a notrious con artist who deceived several people out of the money.
d. Smith is a communication scholar -well known for her development of the Theory of Reasoned Action.
e. Author of our book. |
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| b. She convinced her captor to release her and surrender to the authorities. |
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On the question of intentionality in persuasion, what is the position of the authors?
a. Persuasion cannot occus without intending to persuade someone else.
b. Persuasion is never intentional.
c. Intentionality has no role at all in the social influence attempts.
d. Sometimes we persuade other people even when we didn't intend too.
e. all the above. |
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| d. Sometimes we persuade other people even when we didn't intend too. |
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Sanders and Fitch descrine this as the most heavy-handed form of social influence.
a. persuasion
b. compliance seeking
c. giving directives
d. giving advice
e. refuting arguments. |
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What are persuadables?
a. Topics exhbiting high consensus in any given cultral group.
b. topics with greater appeal to men.
c. Topics with greater appeal to women.
d. in many cultures, there is a taboo against mentioning these topics.
e. there are topics open to persuasion. |
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| e. These are topics open to persuasion. |
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The authors discuss goal competence in the framework of the film "paper clips" which is based upon which of the following?
a. The sinking of the titanic.
b. The holocaust.
c. The devasting tsunami at Phuket Island.
d. The destruction of the twin towners in NYC
e. War in Iraq. |
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Which of the following descriptions defines positive face?
a. Personally competent and knowledgeable person.
b. Our need to be approved of and appreciated by others.
c. Our need to feel superior and unique from other people.
d. Our need for freedom and lack of constraint by others.
e. all the above. |
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| b. Our need to be approved of and appreciated by others. |
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Which of the following descriptions defines negative face?
a. Personally competent and knowledgeable person.
b. Our need to be approved of and appreciated by others.
c. Our need to feel superior and unique from other people.
d. Our need for freedom and lack of constraint by others.
e. all the above. |
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| d. Our need for freedom and lack of constraint by others. |
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According to the authors. persuasion is related to face because:
a. Trying to persuade someone else often involve a face threat.
b. You need to be "in your face" in order to persuade someone else.
c. Persuasion often is based on face-to-face communication.
d. Persuasion gives approval to other people and thus exemplfies face.
e. Only dysfunctional people have to face there needs and these are easy to persuade. |
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| a. Trying to persuade someone else often involve a face threat. |
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This describes a negative, defensive response to an attempt to persuade:
a. Implicit personality.
b. reasoned action.
c. Recency effect
d. Attribution bias.
e. psychological reluctance. |
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| e. Psychological reactance. |
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When we put aside our own needs and take on as much possible the experience of another person the authors call this:
a. empathic reactive response
b. symblolic role taking
c. self reflexive hypothesis
d. other orientation syndrome
e. eyes open bias. |
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When you were in Highschool, your parents praised you for your good behavior and grounded you for bad behavior. Their use of reward and punishment illustrates which of the following theories.
a. Theory of Planned Behavior
b. Dual action Theory
c. Accommodation Theory
d. Learning theory |
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Which of the following is true of influence tactics used in cults?
a. The techniques cults use are seldom used in normal communication settings.
b. After 3 years a high percentage of people continue to belong to the cult.
c. Members of the cult are encouraged to question the practices of the cult & are required to socialize with outsiders.
d. The techniques used by the cult depend heavily on interpersonal bonds
e. Cults use the technique of brainstorming. |
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| d. The techniques used by the cult depend heavily on interpersonal bonds |
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The 3 theories that people are motivated by a need for consistency & stability are:
a. operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and social learning theories
b. social penetration, social learning, and social identity theories
c. accommodation, social penetration, and uncertainty reduction theories
d. theory of reasoned action, co-cultural theory, and social learning theory
e. balance, congruity and cognitive |
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| e. Balance, congruity and cognitive |
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5. Tim watches Jay Leno every night. He imagines himself hosting a late night talk show & often imitates Leno. His behavior is best explained by which of the following theories?
A. Theory of Reasoned Action
B. Classical Conditioning
C. Operant Conditioning
D. Social Learning Theory
E. Social Exchange Theory |
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| D. Social Learning theory |
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In this type of family the lines of athuority are clearly defined.
a.wheel network
b. postional structure
c. person-oriented structure
d. intrumental power structure
e. De facto structure |
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When less dominant members of the family give in to those who are more assertive, this exemplifies which of the following types of decision making?
A. Consensus
B. assimilation
C. de facto decision
D. accommodation
E. adaptation |
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Which family network is the most decentralized?
A. chain network
B. Y network
C. Wheel network
D. Isolate
E. all channel network |
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9. The motto of this type of family is “The family that plays together stays together.”
A. Open family
B. Closed family
C. enmeshed family
D. disengaged family
E. random family |
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Which is the first stage in responding to a crisis
A. Recoil
B. anger & blaming
C. acceptance & recovery
D. shock and denial
E. depression |
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The matching hypothesis makes which of the following claims?
a. We date people who are much more attractive than we think we are.
b. We date people that we perceive are of similar attractiveness to us.
c. We date people who are uglier than us to add to our own self esteem.
d. Personal attractiveness has little impact on selection of people we date.
e. We select dates based on different socio-economic background from us. |
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| B. We date ppl that we perceive are of similar attractiveness to us. |
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Which stage would a couple go through first?
A. initiating
B. bonding
C. integrating
D. relational decay
E. experimenting |
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