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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 36 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A persona can unilaterally determine what will happen next E.g. parent-child relationship
Fate control
Attributional conflict
Behavior control
Forgiveness
2. 'If you do what I want - I will give you X.'
Deceiver's distrust
Showing understanding skill
Ostracism
Reward power
3. It is reproductively advantageous to keep outsiders from the relationship
Catching a liar
Sources of Power
Reasons for being jealous
Mismatch
4. Speak hesitantly - Higher pitch - Grammatical errors - Blink more often - Mismatch b/w facial expression and tone of voice - Know the person well
Attributional conflict
Dialects
Showing understanding skill
Catching a liar
5. Occurs when someone's motives - goals - beliefs - opinions or behavior interfere with those of another - Preventing someone from doing/getting what they want
Forgiveness
Catching a liar
Fate control
Conflict
6. 'If you don't do what I want - I will punish you by X.'
Relational evaluation
Conflict skills & tips
Reactive jealousy
Coercive power
7. Listen in a way that shows strong interest - Become the other person - Repeat the other person's partner's thoughts - feelings and concerns - Accept and make changes graciously
Catching a liar
Reactive jealousy
Relationship maintenance strategies
Showing understanding skill
8. The degree to which others consider their relationships with us to be valuable
Referent power
Conflict
Relational evaluation
Self-bolstering
9. 'I love you - so I will do what you ask of me.'
Referent power
Reasons for being jealous
Coercive power
Attributional conflict
10. From a susrvey on causes of breakups - Autonomy 37% Similarity 30% Supportiveness 27% Openness 22% Fidelity 17% Togetherness 16% Equity 12%
Coercive power
Informational power
Causes of breakups
Self-bolstering
11. Be positive - Exercise gratitude - Don't have a conversation when you're angry - Be explicit about expectations - Avoid contempt (sarcasm and snarkiness) - Pick a neutral spot!
Relationship maintenance strategies
Relational evaluation
Conflict skills & tips
Accommodation
12. Sincere apology and empathy from victim
Behavior control
Deceiver's distrust
Key ingredients of forgiveness
Mismatch
13. Positivity - Openness - Assurances - Social network - Sharing tasks - Sharing activities - Support - Conflict management - Avoidance - Humor
Reasons for being jealous
Coercive power
Negotiation
Relationship maintenance strategies
14. By changing your own behavior - you can influence the behavior of a partner E.g. romantic relationship
Behavior control
Legitimate power
Instigating conflict
Coercive power
15. Think before you speak - Start by remembering what's good - Speak from your own POV - Talk about your feelings - Ask for what you want - Avoid trigger words - Be specific
Forgiveness
Veto power
Expression skill
Self-bolstering
16. Giving a boost to one's self-esteem by doing something nice for oneself and thinking about one's good qualities
Relationship maintenance strategies
Accommodation
Self-bolstering
Betrayal
17. 1. Direct - ask for what you want (more satisfied people/men) 2. Indirect - hinting or pouting (not as satisfied/women) 3. Unilateral - work alone (less powerful/women) 4. Bilateral - work together (more powerful/men)
Causes of breakups
Attributional conflict
Veto power
Power strategies
18. Liars tend to view their deception as less serious than the recipient - Self-serving bias
Mismatch
Conflict skills & tips
Showing understanding skill
Self-bolstering
19. Control of valuable resources - having a resource if other people want it - Principle of lesser interest (i.e. showing you have no interest) - You can get what you want elsewhere too
Catching a liar
Sources of Power
Forgiveness
Relationship maintenance strategies
20. A decision to give up your perceived or actual right to get even with or hold in debt someone who has wronged you - Secure attachments are more likely to forgive
Legitimate power
Sources of Power
Forgiveness
Referent power
21. Involves efforts to 'stay cool' and avoid feeling angry or embarrassed by refusing to dwell on the unfairness of the situation
Fate control
Self-reliance
Relationship maintenance strategies
Legitimate power
22. 'You have a reasonable right to tell me what to do and I feel compelled to do it.'
Causes of breakups
Mismatch
Relationship maintenance strategies
Legitimate power
23. When people lie to others - they perceive the recipient to be less trustworthy over time -'Everyone is like me - so you must be lying too.'
24. Being ignored; cold shoulder - Used to avoid confrontation or calm down after conflict - threatens need to belong - leaves people angry and in the dark
Accommodation
Ostracism
Instigating conflict
Causes of breakups
25. We fluctuate in our pursuit of different goals (opposing motivations) Examples include: Autonomy vs. connection (wanting to be alone but want to be close) - Openness vs. closeness - Stability vs. change - Integration vs. separation
Mismatch
Dialects
Fate control
Legitimate power
26. Even if you make the most of daily decisions - if someone can overturn them - you don't really have that much power
Reward power
Deceiver's distrust
Instigating conflict
Veto power
27. Say your side and work toward a common solution - Involves direct and indirect approaches as well
Negotiation
Self-reliance
Fate control
Self-bolstering
28. Apparent decreases in others' regard for us
Fate control
Relational devaluation
Relationship maintenance strategies
Good liars
29. 1. Criticism - demanding; derogatory as far as recipient is concerned 2. Illegitimate demands - unjust demands - 3. Rebuffs - one person appeals for a desired reaction but the other person does nothing - 4. Cumulative annoyances - builds up over time
Instigating conflict
Forgiveness
Dialects
Self-bolstering
30. Fighting over whose account of an incident is right and whose is wrong
Attributional conflict
Causes of breakups
Social power
Self-reliance
31. Hurtful actions by people we trust - Involves relational devaluation - Most intense hurt from people we love - Loyalty to multiple people (sometimes occur when people have the best intentions)
Conflict
Betrayal
Power strategies
Mismatch
32. The ability to influence the behavior of others and to resist their influence on us
Behavior control
Expression skill
Social power
Catching a liar
33. 'You have info that I need or want - so I will do what you ask of me.'
Referent power
Informational power
Behavior control
Fate control
34. High social skills - Not much to lose - An unattractive target
Attributional conflict
Dialects
Power strategies
Good liars
35. Acting constructively in the face of attack - Involves direct and indirect approaches as well
Reasons for being jealous
Deceiver's distrust
Accommodation
Relational devaluation
36. Response to a realistic danger in past - present or future
Reactive jealousy
Sources of Power
Fate control
Behavior control