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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.
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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. High social skills - Not much to lose - An unattractive target
Behavior control
Good liars
Legitimate power
Catching a liar
2. 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
Attributional conflict
Reasons for being jealous
Social power
Sources of Power
3. Liars tend to view their deception as less serious than the recipient - Self-serving bias
Showing understanding skill
Mismatch
Deceiver's distrust
Relationship maintenance strategies
4. 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.'
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5. By changing your own behavior - you can influence the behavior of a partner E.g. romantic relationship
Attributional conflict
Mismatch
Behavior control
Coercive power
6. Giving a boost to one's self-esteem by doing something nice for oneself and thinking about one's good qualities
Showing understanding skill
Self-bolstering
Deceiver's distrust
Informational power
7. Apparent decreases in others' regard for us
Relational devaluation
Relational evaluation
Self-bolstering
Conflict
8. 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)
Referent power
Self-reliance
Betrayal
Coercive power
9. 'You have info that I need or want - so I will do what you ask of me.'
Self-reliance
Informational power
Conflict
Fate control
10. Acting constructively in the face of attack - Involves direct and indirect approaches as well
Conflict skills & tips
Power strategies
Ostracism
Accommodation
11. 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
Relationship maintenance strategies
Key ingredients of forgiveness
Expression skill
Good liars
12. 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!
Informational power
Conflict skills & tips
Accommodation
Betrayal
13. 'If you do what I want - I will give you X.'
Power strategies
Conflict
Reward power
Relational evaluation
14. Sincere apology and empathy from victim
Conflict skills & tips
Key ingredients of forgiveness
Legitimate power
Dialects
15. 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
Reactive jealousy
Sources of Power
Dialects
Informational power
16. 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
Self-bolstering
Instigating conflict
Attributional conflict
Showing understanding skill
17. 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
Behavior control
Forgiveness
Relationship maintenance strategies
Instigating conflict
18. Even if you make the most of daily decisions - if someone can overturn them - you don't really have that much power
Veto power
Expression skill
Forgiveness
Deceiver's distrust
19. 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)
Power strategies
Catching a liar
Reactive jealousy
Legitimate power
20. A persona can unilaterally determine what will happen next E.g. parent-child relationship
Fate control
Expression skill
Key ingredients of forgiveness
Relationship maintenance strategies
21. Occurs when someone's motives - goals - beliefs - opinions or behavior interfere with those of another - Preventing someone from doing/getting what they want
Negotiation
Conflict
Relational devaluation
Legitimate power
22. Being ignored; cold shoulder - Used to avoid confrontation or calm down after conflict - threatens need to belong - leaves people angry and in the dark
Veto power
Reasons for being jealous
Ostracism
Relational evaluation
23. It is reproductively advantageous to keep outsiders from the relationship
Conflict
Power strategies
Reasons for being jealous
Forgiveness
24. Involves efforts to 'stay cool' and avoid feeling angry or embarrassed by refusing to dwell on the unfairness of the situation
Key ingredients of forgiveness
Attributional conflict
Self-reliance
Deceiver's distrust
25. Positivity - Openness - Assurances - Social network - Sharing tasks - Sharing activities - Support - Conflict management - Avoidance - Humor
Relationship maintenance strategies
Conflict skills & tips
Self-reliance
Relational devaluation
26. Say your side and work toward a common solution - Involves direct and indirect approaches as well
Causes of breakups
Reactive jealousy
Forgiveness
Negotiation
27. 'You have a reasonable right to tell me what to do and I feel compelled to do it.'
Power strategies
Conflict
Legitimate power
Expression skill
28. Fighting over whose account of an incident is right and whose is wrong
Attributional conflict
Ostracism
Reasons for being jealous
Mismatch
29. The degree to which others consider their relationships with us to be valuable
Reward power
Informational power
Relational evaluation
Social power
30. From a susrvey on causes of breakups - Autonomy 37% Similarity 30% Supportiveness 27% Openness 22% Fidelity 17% Togetherness 16% Equity 12%
Referent power
Power strategies
Causes of breakups
Veto power
31. Speak hesitantly - Higher pitch - Grammatical errors - Blink more often - Mismatch b/w facial expression and tone of voice - Know the person well
Power strategies
Catching a liar
Self-bolstering
Informational power
32. 'I love you - so I will do what you ask of me.'
Relational evaluation
Social power
Good liars
Referent power
33. 'If you don't do what I want - I will punish you by X.'
Coercive power
Legitimate power
Fate control
Self-reliance
34. The ability to influence the behavior of others and to resist their influence on us
Legitimate power
Social power
Relational devaluation
Relationship maintenance strategies
35. 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
Forgiveness
Referent power
Showing understanding skill
Reward power
36. Response to a realistic danger in past - present or future
Relational evaluation
Mismatch
Fate control
Reactive jealousy