Interpersonal Communication Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Interpersonal Communication explores the fundamental principles and skills involved in effective communication between individuals in various contexts, including personal, professional, and social relationships. The course examines core topics such as verbal and nonverbal communication, active listening, conflict resolution, cultural influences, self-disclosure, and emotional intelligence. Through theoretical perspectives and practical exercises, students learn to understand and improve their own communication behaviors, develop empathy, manage misunderstandings, and foster healthier, more productive interactions in diverse environments.
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Gendered Lives 11th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication Gender and Culture
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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.
Answer: Responses will vary depending on the social location selected.Students may choose to talk about their race,gender,sex,sexuality,religion or spirituality,class,geographic location,or other marker.They should be specific in their explanation.
Q2) Terms such as "spouse," "husband," "wife," and "marriage" are inclusive of all people. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Intersexed
Answer: Intersexed individuals are born with ambiguous genitals and may differ from most people in hormonal,chromosomal,and physiological ways.Concerning intersexed people,doctors have routinely decided which sex the child was "meant to be" and advised parents to authorize "clarifying surgery" that then allowed parents to bring the child up as the sex it was "meant to be."
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) According to standpoint theory
A) people with the most social privilege are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
B) people who are privileged in some ways but disadvantaged in others are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
C) people with the least social privilege are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
D) no group is more likely than another to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
Answer: C
Q2) Queer theory
Answer: Queer theory critiques conventional categories of identity and cultural views of "normal" and "abnormal" particularly in relation to sexuality.To queer theory,labels like man,woman,gay,and straight are meaningless and misleading.
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) "Ain't I a Woman?"
Answer: Speech given by Sojourner Truth during the first wave of U.S.feminism.Truth called attention to liberal feminism's focus on white women and neglect of distinct discrimination faced by Black women.
Q2) Some second-wave feminists have criticized the younger generation of third-wave feminists for being too focused on consumerism and lacking a clear central message.Based on the characteristics of the movement described in your textbook,do you think these criticisms are valid? Why or why not? What are the differing motivations behind the two waves that could account for this criticism?
Answer: The answers here will vary based on the student's opinion.However,they should clearly represent an understanding of the characteristics of both second- and third-wave feminism and how both movements came to be and evolved.
Q3) Radical feminists were the first to declare that "the personal is political."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) Traitorous identity
Q2) NOMAS,MVP,and mythopoetics all agree that the current construction of masculinity can be harmful.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Men's Rights Movement argues that a number of contemporary policies and practices are discriminatory towards men; moreover,some men's rights groups argue that feminism is at least partially responsible for the implementation of these practices and policies.Identify one contemporary policy or practice that men's movements have identified as discriminatory and explain whether or not you agree with that classification.
Q4) 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
Q5) Profeminists endeavor to cultivate emotions that they feel have been suppressed by masculine socialization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Polarized thinking
Q2) Minimal response cues
Q3) The extent to which we speak in a masculine or a feminine style varies depending on context and other factors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In general,feminine speech community members follow this/these communication practice(s):
A) Language is used to show one's status.
B) Communication is used as primary way to establish and maintain relationships.
C) Direct, abstract speech is used frequently.
D) Language tends to be used to accomplish an instrumental task.
E) Language is used to maintain control of the conversation.
Q5) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
Q6) Male generic language
Q7) Tag question
Q8) Gender-linked language effect
Q9) Speech community
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Female athletes are less susceptible to developing eating disorders than are the rest of the female population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Carrie and Jennifer are talking in the hallway between classes.Carrie is making eye contact with Jennifer,nodding intently while Jennifer speaks,and occasionally asks questions to clarify what Jennifer is saying.Carrie is using nonverbal communication to regulate interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Power
Q4) Body image disorders only affect women.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Responsiveness
Q6) Paralanguage
Q7) Your book states that toys are powerfully gendered artifacts for children,socializing them into masculine and feminine behaviors from an early age.Describe why toys are so powerful and important and how they influence a child's gender socialization.
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Which of the following is true,according to psychoanalytic theorists?
A) Children of both sexes usually form their first identification with an adult woman.
B) Boys identify more closely with their fathers than girls identify with their mothers.
C) For a girl to fully form her identity, she must repress her original identification with her mother.
D) At around the age of one year, male and female development diverges dramatically.
E) All of the above.
Q2) Men tend to have relatively firm ego boundaries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Anatomy is destiny"
Q4) Though many things have changed about gender over time,appearance is still a primary measure and marker of femininity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ego boundaries
Q6) Parental modeling
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) Discuss the controversy over female abilities for math and/or science.How do females typically fare in math and science? Be sure to address biological and social factors.
Q2) 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 nongender 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.
Q3) Which of the following helps explain why U.S.women are less likely to pursue careers in scientific and mathematical fields?
A) In high school, girls take fewer advanced math classes than boys.
B) Most girls have significantly less natural aptitude for science and math than do most boys.
C) There are no women professors in the sciences or math, making it difficult for young women to envision themselves succeeding in these areas of study.
D) Some faculty members and peers assume that females have less aptitude in these fields.
E) All of the above.
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Socialization into gendered speech communities can make it challenging for men and women to be friends.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regardless of sexual orientation,most couples have one partner that takes on most of the burden of caring for the relational health of the couple.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The author of your textbook writes that gendered orientations influence four dimensions of long-term love relationships: modes of expressing care,needs for autonomy and connection,responsibility for relational maintenance,and power.Discuss how heterosexual couples may differ from same-sex couples on two of the four dimensions.
Q4) Reflect on a nonromantic,close,same-sex friendship.In what ways does your friendship match or deviate patterns of friendships described in the book?
Q5) Feminine ruler:
Q6) Alternative paths model
Q7) The Mommy Myth
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Affirmative action is a quota system that states a number of minorities that must be hired,admitted,or promoted,regardless of qualifications.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "Glass wall" is a metaphor to describe
A) the invisible barrier to women's advancement in the workplace.
B) a new technology that lets supervisors monitor employees.
C) the difference in pay that women and men receive for the same job.
D) sex segregation of jobs based on stereotypes of women.
E) leave policies that discourage men from taking family leave.
Q3) ________ are policies that judge effectiveness based on intention rather than results.
A) Affirmative action
B) Quotas
C) Equal opportunity laws
D) Informal networks
E) All of the above
Q4) Glass walls
Q5) Lilly Ledbetter:
Q6) Glass ceilings
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Media saturation
Q2) Cyberbullying
Q3) Advertising in the United States tends to present women as authority figures by using them for voice-overs in commercials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Your Gendered Lives textbook reviews how women and men are portrayed in advertising.Discuss the portrayals of gender in this type of media.How influential are advertisements?
Q5) Immersive advertising
Q6) In what way are girls and women more likely to use social media than men and boys?
A) as a venue for self-development
B) to participate in "sexting"
C) to set up interactions with peers
D) to play games
E) none of the above
Q7) Pathologizing the human body
Q8) Product placement
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) In this form of genital surgery,a female's entire clitoris and parts of the labia minora are removed:
A) femilectomy
B) sunna
C) infibulation
D) clitoridectomy (excision)
E) revaganilization
Q2) Cycle of abuse
Q3) What is rape culture? How does it affect victims of sexual assault? What should be done to eradicate this problem in our culture?
Q4) Sexual harassment
Q5) Femicide
Q6) Hostile environment harassment
Q7) Intimate partner violence
Q8) Informed consent
Q9) Children who grow up in families with one or more abusive adults are generally not affected by that violence.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Your Gendered Lives textbook states that the forms of influence you have on cultural views of gender include
A) individual choice, policy change, and political movements.
B) traitorous identity, teaching children, and empowering others.
C) addressing backlash, profeminist movements, and feminist movements.
D) direct power, agenda setting, and voice.
E) participating in backlash, personal choice, and agenda setting.
Q2) Differences are valuable and desirable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Direct power
Q4) Which of the following are metaphors that seek to recognize diversity in the United States without obscuring difference?
A) a melting pot
B) a cake mix
C) a Venn diagram
D) a quilt
E) all of the above
Q5) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q6) Voice
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