Interpersonal Communication Test Bank
Course Introduction
Interpersonal Communication explores the processes and skills involved in effective communication between individuals in both personal and professional contexts. The course examines verbal and nonverbal messages, listening, conflict resolution, perception, self-disclosure, and cultural influences on communication. Students will engage in practical exercises and discussions designed to enhance their ability to build, maintain, and improve relationships through effective interaction. Emphasis is placed on developing self-awareness, empathy, and critical thinking while navigating diverse communication situations.
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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) Patriarchy
Answer: Patriarchy is a term that literally means "rule by fathers." To say that a culture is patriarchal means that it is primarily focused on men's goals,needs,and realities.Men are given preference over women as ideologies,structures,and practices are defined by and for men.
Q2) Society,family,and friends teach us what it means to be male and female.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Unlike sex,gender is a relational concept.Explain what this means and the implications of it,and give an example that illustrates your point. Answer: Gender is a relational concept because we can only understand femininity compared and contrasted with masculinity.Likewise,we cannot understand masculinity without the concept of femininity.We socially construct these two to be opposites; for example,if we see masculinity as being about strength,then femininity is seen as weakness.This concept is important because it means that when we change our ideas about one gender,we necessarily change the way we think about another gender.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) What does it mean to say that gender should be viewed as a verb,not a noun? How is gender social? Finally,what are the implications of such claims? Your response should be grounded in performative theory about gender.
Answer: According to performative theory,gender is something we do,not something we have.We see gender in the way someone gestures,how s/he dresses,and how space is used,for example.Because gender is a performance,we rely on others to confirm,challenge,and be an audience for our gender performances.Our verbal and nonverbal communication only sends a particular message about gender because we have agreed on the meanings of such communication.For example,if Callie dresses in a pink frilly dress,she will likely be perceived as feminine by others because pink and ruffles are associated with femininity in our culture.If we had decided pink was a masculine color,Callie would be seen as masculine for the same behavior.The implication is that gender only exists in the performances that we do with others.We socially construct gender,and we can change it as well.Thinking of gender as performed and social allows us to see its fluidity.
Q2) Queer theory states that identity categories are limiting and meaningless.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) Lesbian feminists believe that it is not possible to reform America's patriarchal culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women's rights movement?
A) Woman suffrage - the right to vote.
B) Women's right to higher education.
C) Women's right to work in the professions.
D) Women's right to own property.
E) All of the above Answer: E
Q3) Women burned their bras to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Liberal feminist ideology
Answer: This feminist ideology asserts that men and women are alike and equal in most respects.Liberal Feminism is an example of a movement predicated on this philosophy.
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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) Million Man March
Q3) Profeminists endeavor to cultivate emotions that they feel have been suppressed by masculine socialization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____ movements are those who work to support feminist movements in addition to working to change the way masculinity is constructed in the U.S.
A) Free Men
B) Masculinist
C) Men's equality
D) Profeminist
E) No men's movements support feminism.
Q5) Mythopoetic Men
Q6) Bystander behavior
Q7) Montreal Massacre
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Those who exhibit the feminine speech community tendency to speak in a tentative manner are displaying low self-confidence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the connections between language and gender identified in your textbook is that language allows self-reflection.What implications does this insight have for individuals' language use?
Q3) Male generic language
Q4) Compare and contrast the rules of communication that are promoted in games typically played by boys and games typically played by girls.Discuss the implications of these games for communication by adult women and men.
Q5) The common belief that women are more talkative than men is supported by research.
A)True
B)False
Q6) 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?
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Which of the following is true about how people respond in a crowded situation,like an elevator?
A) Men are likely to stand their ground, refusing to yield territory to others.
B) Men are likely to look up or down as if to say "I'm not trying to intrude your space."
C) Women are likely to look up or down as if to say "I'm not trying to intrude your space."
D) Both A and C
E) Both B and C
Q2) Children's toys are becoming increasingly gender-neutral; many toy stores and toy catalogs no longer separate "toys for girls" and "toys for boys."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Men are more likely than women to use eye contact to assert themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Haptics
Q5) Paralanguage
Q6) Artifacts
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) When fathers interact with their children,they tend to
A) Encourage gender-appropriate behaviors.
B) Focus more on playing than on care-taking.
C) Stretch children by encouraging them to achieve and take risks.
D) A and B
E) All of the above
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Q2) Though many things have changed about gender over time,appearance is still a primary measure and marker of femininity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Define ego boundaries and explain how they typically develop in masculine and feminine people,noting both similarities and differences in development.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) Title IX
Q2) College men often face pressure from their peers to:
A) Drink alcohol to excess.
B) Participate in intermural sports.
C) Earn top grades.
D) Work a wage-paying job in addition to attending classes.
E) Cut classes.
Q3) Carolyn is a brilliant,but strict teacher who smiles rarely and is a tough grader.During a review,her department chair tells her she should warm up to the students and offer them more emotional support.Which of the following terms best describes the department chair's evaluation of how Carolyn should act?
A) hidden curriculum
B) hidden hand discrimination
C) invisible hand discrimination
D) invisible curriculum
E) none of the above
Q4) The Morrill Act of 1862
Q5) Effortless perfection
Q6) Culture of romance
Q7) Invisible hand discrimination
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) In heterosexual couples in which the woman earns substantially more than the man,the man performs the majority of household labor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements reflects the beliefs of the male deficit model?
A) Men are less able than women to express their feelings.
B) There are multiple ways to build closeness.
C) Men are just as able as women to interpret and express their emotions.
D) Men tend to build closeness by doing things for one another.
E) All of the above.
Q3) Second shift
Q4) The demand-withdraw pattern explains why sexual tension often exists in cross-sex friendships
A)True
B)False
Q5) Male deficit model
Q6) Typically,men do not value friendships as much as women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) In the United States,companies are required to grant leaves to care for new babies or sick family members as mandated by the FMLA.
A)True
B)False
Q2) At work,Nick feels pressure to be a pillar of strength among his colleagues.When he runs into trouble with a project,he feels like he cannot ask for help because others expect him to be independent and doing so may suggest he is not competent.What stereotype of men in the workplace does this kind of pressure reflect?
A) Sturdy oak
B) Breadwinner
C) Iron man
D) Fighter
E) Glass wall
Q3) Mentoring relationships
Q4) An organization that does not meet a stated goal to hire or promote minorities and/or women may be sued by organizational members and penalized in court for failing to meet the goal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Men and women tend to use media differently.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "mommy track" was based upon the idea that women would willingly trade promotions and opportunities in the workplace for more time at home with their families.
A)True
B)False
Q3) News coverage and radio programming are more likely to refer to women labeled as feminists derogatorily than those who are not identified this way.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At least half of U.S.teenagers are members of one or more social networking site.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Immersive advertising
Q6) Pathologizing the human body
Q7) Virgin and whore
Q8) Gatekeeper
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) The "reasonable woman" standard is used to determine if sexual harassment has occurred.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define sexual harassment.Then,identify and evaluate the two different legal forms of sexual harassment and standards for determining whether it occurred.Your response should explain which standard,if any,you favor and why.
Q3) Intimate Partner violence
Q4) Rape culture
Q5) Define gendered violence,and discuss the ways in which society normalizes gendered violence.Your essay should identify 3-4 specific social foundations or institutions that allow or encourage both women and men to regard certain kinds of gendered violence as normal or acceptable.Include concrete examples.
Q6) Sexual harassment
Q7) Hostile environment
Q8) Femicide
Q9) Sexual assault
Q10) The "reasonable woman" standard
Q11) Pornography
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Parents influence their children's perceptions of gender through "voice" when they challenge sexist attitudes and practices in everyday life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Class discussions and the textbook have emphasized this point: gender is constructed.Explain what it means to claim that gender is constructed.Your response should define gender and describe HOW gender is constructed and how it is changed over time.In addition,your response should discuss what viewing gender as a social construction implies for individual action and agency.Include specific examples of how gender is constructed,reproduced,and changed.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Voice
Q5) Identify one issue you consider especially important in the ongoing cultural conversation about gender.Explain why you regard this issue as particularly pivotal now and how different resolutions of it might affect social life.
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) Heterosexual men and women report being happier and more satisfied with their relationships when their partners:
A) Define themselves as feminists.
B) Define themselves as non-feminists.
C) Have the same attitudes toward feminism as they do.
D) Are unconcerned about feminism.
E) There is no research about relationship satisfaction and feminisms.
Q2) Being feminist is in conflict with being feminine.
A)True
B)False
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) Inclusive language
Q5) Socially constructed
Q6) Feminism
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