Family Communication Final Exam
Course Introduction
Family Communication explores the patterns, dynamics, and processes of communication within family units. The course examines how families create, maintain, and manage relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication, addressing topics such as conflict resolution, role negotiation, decision-making, and the impact of culture and technology on family interactions. Students will analyze theoretical perspectives and apply practical skills to better understand the complexities of communication in diverse family structures and across the family life cycle.
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Interpersonal Communication Relating to Others 8th Edition by Steven A. Beebe
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
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Q1) Which of the following models is considered by the authors to be the most realistic model of interpersonal communication?
A)communication as action
B)communication as interaction
C)communication as transaction
D)communication as contraction
Answer: C
Q2) When Gladys says, "I'm sorry, Pete.I take it back.Your new haircut isn't REALLY atrocious," she is forgetting that communication
A)is irreversible.
B)is complicated.
C)is governed by rules.
D)involves both content and relationship dimensions.
Answer: A
Q3) All interpersonal relationship problems are communication problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Interpersonal Communication and Self
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Q1) Facework refers to the image of yourself you present to others for acceptance and confirmation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Identifying with a group is a significant part of a person's identity, and research has shown which individuals benefit the most from group associations?
A)People with avoidant style characteristics.
B)People who are not a part of a dominant culture.
C)People with anxious attachment style.
D)People with secure attachment style.
Answer: B
Q3) Describe the concept of self-worth, and explain how social comparison affects it. Answer: Self-worth (self-esteem)is your evaluation of your worth or value based on your perception of such things as your skills, abilities, talents, and appearance.Social comparison is the process of comparing yourself to others who are similar to you, to measure your worth and value.People derive their sense of self-worth from comparing themselves to others.
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Chapter 3: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
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Q1) The theory that helps explain why Nabil's view and account of Shawna's behavior differs dramatically from Benjamin's view and account of that same behavior is known as ________ theory.
A)implicit personality
B)impression formation
C)standpoint
D)attribution
Answer: C
Q2) When we look for nonverbal cues to help us understand how a person is feeling about something we did, we are engaging in A)mindfulness.
B)indirect perception checking.
C)direct perception checking.
D)intuitive perception.
Answer: B
Q3) Selective exposure is the process of focusing on specific stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Interpersonal Communication and Diversity: Adapting to Others
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Q1) The United States is generally considered to be a feminine culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The general cultural perspective on such key issues as death, God, and the meaning of life that shapes how you perceive and respond to what happens to you is called a(n)
A)prospectus.
B)ethnicity.
C)microculture.
D)worldview.
Q3) Sydney has both feminine and masculine traits.Thus, Sydney is said to be A)bisexual.
B)asexual.
C)anti-sexual.
D)androgynous.
Q4) The term gender refers to the biological differences between men and women. A)True
B)False
Q5) In what way might ethnocentrism be viewed as a positive cultural characteristic?
Q6) How does social class affect communication? Give an example.
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Chapter 5: Listening and Responding Skills
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Q1) Bjorn's wife walks into the family room while he is watching the TV and begins to tell him what she found out at the PTA meeting.Bjorn turns off the TV and directs his attention to his wife.Which barrier to effective listening has Bjorn addressed?
A)emotional noise
B)external noise
C)differing speech rate and thought rate
D)being self-absorbed
Q2) Samantha and Darren have been assigned to figure out the best date to schedule their annual class dance and party.Samantha wants to establish a positive communication relationship with Darren, but it seems as though he is only interested in arriving at a solution to the question at hand.This is probably because Darren employs which type of listening style?
A)critical listening style
B)task-oriented listening style
C)analytical listening style
D)relational listening style
Q3) Explain the difference between fact and inference, and provide an example of each.
Q4) What is the difference between hearing and listening?
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Chapter 6: Verbal Communication Skills
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Q1) Tom was describing the noises that hens make at his part-time job at the egg farm.He used the word "cackle" to describe the sound.This work is an example of A)onomatopoeia.
B)jargon.
C)malapropism.
D)indexing.
Q2) We are more likely to apologize to people we barely know than we are to those with whom we share an intimate relationship.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A person's name generally has no logical connection with the actual person, just as the word "cow" does not look like a cow or sound like a cow.These examples illustrate the principle that the connection between a word and what it represents is A)context bound.
B)concrete.
C)arbitrary.
D)denotative.
Q4) What is the essence of linguistic determinism?
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Chapter 7: Nonverbal Communication Skills
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Q1) Your nonverbal behaviors may be sending messages that you are feeling anxious or nervous, even if you are not aware that you are feeling anxious or nervous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ekman called some ________ "gymnasts of the mind," because they were surprisingly sensitive to detecting microexpressions.
A)Buddhists
B)police officers
C)women
D)judges
Q3) In what stage of quasi-courtship behavior are we engaged when we move closer to someone, adopt an open body posture, and make eye contact?
A)courtship readiness
B)preening
C)positional cues
D)appeals to invitation
Q4) List the names and distances, in order from closest to farthest, of Hall's four spatial zones.
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Chapter 8: Conflict Management Skills
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Q1) Doug and Carla have been friends for about a year and generally get along well.Over time, however, Doug starts to become annoyed with Carla's habit of being late so often.A while after he realizes how much it really bothers him, Doug tells Carla that he was really frustrated when Carla showed up late to go to a movie they agreed to see together, and they missed it.Doug sees the lateness as a lack of respect for him and his time.Carla is defensive at first and argues with Doug that she is a busy person with a lot of stress and responsibility in her life and that Doug just needs to "chill out." As the conversation progresses, Carla agrees to call Doug in advance from now on if she's going to be late and to try to avoid making appointments with Doug when she is not likely to show up or be on time.The next few times they get together, Carla is on time.In fact, Doug and Carla make a joke about it.Using the details of the story, identify the stages of the conflict process that Carla and Doug went through.
Q2) What kind of conflict do inflexibility and a win-lose perspective characterize?
A)expressive conflict
B)social conflict
C)active conflict
D)destructive conflict
Q3) Name and define the five sources of power identified by French and Raven.
Q4) Interpersonal conflict includes four elements.What are they?
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Chapter 9: Understanding Interpersonal Relationships
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Q1) Rory has realized that she and Boothe seem to increasingly find fault with one another and engage in coercive conflict.She and Boothe are at which stage of relationship de-escalation?
A)deintensification
B)turmoil or stagnation
C)separation
D)post-separation
Q2) At which stage of relational escalation is physical contact and risky self-disclosure most likely to first appear?
A)acquaintance
B)exploration
C)intensification
D)intimacy
Q3) We tend to like people who like us.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Name and describe the stages of relational de-escalation and what occurs at each of the stages, paying particular attention to communication behaviors at each stage.
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Chapter 10: Managing Relationship Challenges
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Q1) Describe the difference between a reproach and an account, and define and give an example of a failure event.
Q2) If all four signs of communication behaviors that indicate increasing problems in a marriage are consistently present, the chance a couple will eventually divorce is ________ percent.
A)70
B)80
C)63
D)94
Q3) Reproaches are usually indirect statements conveyed through hints or nonverbal messages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe six phases of Duck's model of ending relationships.
Q5) Name and describe three types of deception by commission, or the deliberate presentation of false information.
Q6) Bald-faced lies involve embellishing the facts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Relationships: Friendship and Romance
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Q1) Tony has been secretly in love with Janessa for about two years.They are good friends, but Tony wants to move things to a more romantic level.When he talks to Janessa about his feelings, she very kindly but firmly tells him that she is only interested in a friendship with him.According to the text, Tony's situation could be described as A)unrequited romantic interest.
B)disclosure rebuff.
C)intimacy rejection.
D)unwanted clarification.
Q2) Sexual attraction is reduced in cross-sex friendships when there is a commitment to developing and maintaining the relationship as friends.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the four factors that have been identified that specifically affect the development of intercultural friendships.
Q4) Compared to a ludus type of love, storge love usually develops over a longer period of time.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Interpersonal Relationships: Family and Workplace
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Q1) A nuclear family and a natural family are two terms for the same family type.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The three basic dimensions of the circumplex model of family interaction are
A)adaptability, cohesion, and communication.
B)adaptability, communication, and values.
C)communication, structure, and adaptability.
D)structure, cohesion, and values.
Q3) Single-parent families represent _______ of the families in the United States today.
A)20 percent
B)34 percent
C)41 percent
D)55 percent
Q4) Define family and identify the type of family in which you were raised by applying the makeup of your family to the definitions in your textbook.
Q5) Use the research reported in your textbook to evaluate the communication qualities of a family with which you are familiar.
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Q6) Explain leader-member exchange (LMX)theory.
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