Interpersonal Communication Study Guide
Examination #2 - Spring 2009
BR Chapters 8-14 and Beebe, Beebe, & RedmondChapters 4-8 and selected articles
- Discuss relationship schemas.
- Describe the biases in memory for relationship events.
- Describe Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Theory.
- Describe Kelley’s Attribution Theory.
- Discuss the universality of emotional expression hypothesis.
- Describe Cannon-Bard, James-Lange, and Schachter’s Two Factor theories of emotion. Discuss misattribution of arousal.
- Discuss mood state-dependent memory.
- Discuss the Emotion-in-Relationship Model (ERM).
- Discuss sex differences in empathic accuracy, coping behavior, self-disclosure and intimacy, and aggression.
- Discuss the theoretical explanations for sex differences.
- Briefly describe the need for intimacy, need for power, self-monitoring, locus of control, and sociosexual orientation.
- Discuss the research on adult attachment style and rejection sensitivity.
- Describe the purpose and procedure of Baumeister et al.’s Study 1.
- Describe the results and conclusions of the Baumeister et al. Study 1.
- Describe the purpose and procedure of Baumeister et al.’s Study 2.
- Describe the results and conclusions of the Baumeister et al. Study 2.
- Describe the conclusions and limitations of the Baumeister et al. studies.
- List the five components to listening.
- List the ways people can improve their responding skills according to the Beebe, Beebe, & Redmond text.
- List three ways in which verbal and nonverbal communication are different.
- List the ways one can avoid word barriers.
- Discuss nonverbal communication codes.
- Discuss the barriers to effective intercultural communication.
- Discuss the taxonomy for cultural cognitive styles described in class lecture.
- Discuss how stereotypes affect the way we process information.
- Discuss illusory correlation and how it affects stereotypes.
- Discuss the ingroup differentiation hypothesis and the illusion of outgroup homogeneity.
- List the three roots of conflict.
- Draw the active-passive X positive-negative matrix to explain reactions to conflict.
- Describe ways to negotiate a win-win solution (e.g., logrolling).
- List the four myths of conflict.
- List the principles of interpersonal power and the types of power.
- Describe the prototype approach to love.
- Discuss passionate love.
- Name and define the love styles (e.g., eros).
- Describe the Triangular Theory of Love.
- Discuss sexual attitudes OR sexual attraction OR sexuality in beginning relationships OR sexuality in established relationships.
- Discuss marital satisfaction over time.
- Describe the three models of marital distress discussed by Huston et al. (2001).
- Describe the procedure and the comparison groups (e.g., quickly divorced) in the Huston et al. (2001) study.
- Describe how the comparison groups in the Huston et al. (2001) article differed.
- Describe results from the PAIR project described in the text (OTHER than the Huston et al. article results).
- Discuss communication patterns in distressed couples.
- Discuss the therapeutic approaches to marital therapy.