Interpersonal Communication Exam Questions
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Interpersonal Communication explores the processes and dynamics of communication between individuals in a variety of personal, social, and professional contexts. The course examines verbal and nonverbal communication, listening skills, conflict resolution, perception, self-disclosure, and relationship development. Through theory, case studies, and practical exercises, students learn to analyze and improve their communication behaviors, understand the impact of culture and identity on interactions, and develop strategies for effective and ethical interpersonal exchanges.
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Gendered Lives 10th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture
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Q1) Androgyny
Answer: Coined in the 1970s,androgyny is the combinations of the Greek words aner/andros (man)and gyne (woman).Androgynous people reject rigid sex roles and embody dualities that the culture considers masculine and feminine.For example,an androgynous person may be both strong and sensitive.
Q2) The Industrial Revolution led to the redefinition of masculinity and femininity. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What is the difference between being transgendered and transsexual?
Answer: While some people may define these terms differently,generally a transgendered person is someone who feels that his or her gender identity does not match his or her biological sex.For instance,a transgendered person may have been born female but feel male or very masculine.A transsexual person is someone who has taken hormones or had surgery to change one's biological sex.Some transgendered people never want to have surgery to become a different biological sex.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) According to psychodynamic theorists,gender identity becomes fixed early in life. A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q2) Biological theory suggests that men and women's brains are formed and develop differently,resulting in different behaviors and characteristics.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Most researchers agree that biological influences on gender are substantially edited by environmental factors.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) Performative theory says that gender is not real but is just an act we perform. A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) Compare and contrast third wave feminism and multiracial feminism.In your essay,note similarities as well as differences between the two movements' values,goals,principles and demographics of membership.
Answer: Similarities:
Similarities:
Both third wave and Multiracial feminists understand multiple forms of oppression (sexism, racism, classism, etc.) as intersecting.
Thus, to examine women's lives and the oppressions experienced by women, third wave and Multiracial feminists examine issues like race and sexual orientation as they influence and interact with one's experience of gender.
Differences:
Multiracial feminists highlight the experiences and concerns of women of color. Third wave feminists focus on the experiences of and issues pertaining to young women, who grew up in the wake of the social reforms of the 1960s and 70s.
Multiracial feminists emphasize women's strengths.
Third wave feminists have a distinct vision of political engagement as personal action
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gendermens
Movements in America
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Q1) Mentors in Violence Protection (MVP)believe that men are socialized to be violent in U.S.society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the principles of the ____ movement,men who condone,encourage,or ignore violence are just as guilty as those who act violently.
A) NOMAS
B) Profeminist
C) White Ribbon Campaign
D) Mentors in Violence Prevention
E) Mythopoetic men
Q3) Football coach Joe Ehrmann,who stresses to his team the value of building relationships,loving one another,and accepting love,is enacting a traitorous identity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Million Man March
Q5) Montreal Massacre
Q6) Mythopoetic Men
Q7) Bystander behavior
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Women tend to interrupt others more than men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
Q3) Male generic language
Q4) When home on break,you hear a friend use male-generic language.When you tell your friend it is sexist,your friend wants to know why.Based on what you have learned in this class,how might you explain to your friend that using such language is problematic?
Q5) Masculine speech community members are less likely than feminine speech community members to want to talk about the "state of the relationship."
A)True
B)False
Q6) Those who exhibit the feminine speech community tendency to speak in a tentative manner are displaying low self-confidence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Kinesics
Q2) After three-year-old Ben misbehaves,his father firmly grasps him by the shoulders and marches him towards his room.The father's holding of Ben's shoulders to direct him to his bedroom is and example of ____.
A) kinesics
B) artifacts
C) the responsiveness dimension of relationship level of meaning D) the liking dimension of relationship level of meaning
E) haptics
Q3) Men are more likely than women to use eye contact to assert themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain which nonverbal behaviors may be employed to exert power and control and examine the link to gender.
Q5) Paralanguage includes spoken words.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Responsiveness
Q7) Haptics
Q8) Artifacts
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Identify the themes (or elements)of what it means to be feminine in the United States.As part of your explanation,be sure you provide brief,concrete examples for the five established themes and the recently emerging theme.Finally,discuss one way that parental/guardian communication about gender (as discussed in chapter 7 of Gendered Lives)may influence understanding of one or more of these themes.
Q2) Identify the themes (or elements)of what it means to be masculine in the United States.As part of your explanation,be sure you provide brief,concrete examples for the five established themes and the recently emerging theme.Finally,discuss one way that parental/guardian communication about gender (as discussed in chapter 7 of Gendered Lives)may influence understanding of one or more of these themes.
Q3) "Success-objects"
Q4) Girls typically define their femininity in negative terms - as not masculine or not male.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to psychodynamic theory,how do most boys develop their gender identity?
Q6) Self-as-object
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) Same-sex schools provide some benefits that are appealing to many students,parents,and educators.However,same-sex schools present issues for trans-people that non-gender queer people do not confront.Note three potential problems that trans-people face at same-sex schools that others do not.Then,propose a potential solution to one of those problems.
Q2) Peer pressure enacted by college women emphasizes being attractive to men over class work and career preparation.In addition,some female college students discover that their career goals are not taken seriously.These factors comprise ____,which researchers believe help explain these young women's lower ambitions after college.
A) effortless perfection
B) the culture of romance
C) the hidden curriculum
D) both A & B
E) none of the above
Q3) Culture of romance
Q4) The Morrill Act of 1862
Q5) Title IX
Q6) Invisible hand discrimination
Q7) Effortless perfection
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) One way to pose questions for this (and several other)chapters is to present them as advice column questions,with the students being the "experts" who respond.Another similar option is to present a question as if it is the student's friend asking him/her for advice since the friend knows the student is in a Gender and Communication class.Students tend to enjoy these questions and they give them the opportunity to integrate the material in ways that are applicable to their lives.It is often helpful to integrate material from several chapters in the questions.Some examples include:
Q2) Lesbians report greater satisfaction with their romantic relationships than either gay men or heterosexuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Covert intimacy
Q4) In cross-sex friendships,women generally talk less than men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Socialization into gendered speech communities can make it challenging for men and women to be friends.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Affirmative action laws ____.
A) attempt to redress past discrimination for members of historically marginalized groups
B) apply only to individuals, not groups that have experienced discrimination
C) judge organizations by the intent of their hiring, admission, and promotion practices rather than end results
D) sometimes result in unqualified candidates being hired, admitted, or promoted
E) mandate a number of people that must be hired, admitted, or promoted at an organization
Q2) The Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009:
A) Bars employers from retaliating against employees who disclose or ask about pay schedules.
B) States that wage discrimination occurs whenever an employee receives discriminary pay.
C) Overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine.
D) Requires federal employers to provide maternity leave for all employees.
E) Expands the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to include workers in same-sex relationships who need time to care for a partner or a partner's child.
Q3) Maternal wall
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) A hair straightening treatment advertisement that appears next to a magazine article titled,"HOT: New smooth looks for summer hair!" is best described as:
A) complimentary copy.
B) product placement.
C) misandry.
D) synergy advertising.
E) an emphasis on visual images, which receives less conscious analysis than verbal claims.
Q2) Discuss three ways in which news media,including cable and network television news,magazines,and newspapers,promote stereotypical views of women and femininity and provide concrete examples to support your points.
Q3) Which of the following is true about media portrayals of men and women?
A) Black men are just as likely as white men to be cast in leading roles now.
B) In advertising, men are portrayed as authorities on homemaking tasks.
C) News coverage of women who have been targets of violence tends to focus on their strength and courage.
D) Television shows today focus equally on men's and women's careers.
E) All of the above
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Christina goes on a date with Todd.After dinner at a nice restaurant,Christina invites Todd back to her apartment for a drink.They open a bottle of wine and start to make out.After a while,Christina is uncomfortable and asks Todd to stop.He ignores her,pulls off her clothes,and has sex with her.After he leaves,although upset,Christina begins to wonder whether she had been "asking for it." The next day she tells a friend what happened and the friend asks her what she had been wearing and how much she had been drinking.This event reflects which of the following:
A) Gender intimidation
B) Informed consent
C) Sexual harassment
D) The rape culture
E) Corrective rape
Q2) "Corrective" rape
Q3) Researchers have found that,in general,gendered violence is best explained by examining perpetrators' individual circumstances and history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cycle of abuse
Q5) Sexual harassment
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Which of the following statements about difference does your book support?
A) Difference causes strife in organizations.
B) We should seek to minimize differences and emphasize commonalities.
C) Diversity already exists and it can be a tool to enrich relationships and organizations.
D) Diversity is declining in the U.S.
E) The melting pot is the best metaphor to describe difference in the U.S.
Q2) The textbook and the class have discussed ways gender norms have changed as a result of feminist and men's movements.Name what you believe to be the three most significant changes that have resulted from these movements and explain why you believe they are significant.
Q3) What does feminism mean to you? Are you a feminist? Consider the conversations and readings that we have done over the semester.
Q4) Discuss how laws and organizational policies that regulate leaves from work influence gender roles in families.In your essay,explain both how laws and policies shape family life and how family life sculpts the kinds of laws and policies that are endorsed in the society.
Q5) Gatekeepers
Q6) Voice
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) The author of your textbook talks about privileges and disadvantages that are part of her social location (and standpoint)that she did not earn and explains how they shape how she sees the world.Choose one privilege and one disadvantage that is part of your social location and explain how it shapes how you see the world.
Q2) Socially constructed
Q3) The Industrial Revolution transformed social views of the essence of masculinity from ____ to ____.
A) courage to strength
B) physical strength to ability to earn an income
C) intelligence to physical strength
D) ambition to attractiveness
E) none of the above
Q4) Sexism is the fault of men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What reasons does the author of your textbook provide for preferring the term "partner" to terms such as "spouse," "husband," or "wife?"
Q6) Feminism
Q7) Inclusive language
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