Exam 8: Language, Communication, and Emotion

Referring to adult women as girls is a common example of ______.

At what age are sex differences in decoding accuracy largest?

Charles Darwin was one first scientists to write about the importance of emotion and expression in communication.

Which of the following findings does NOT provide direct support for the Whorfian hypothesis?

Suppose a researcher finds that women are more likely to report experiencing emotions such as sadness and men are more likely to report experiencing anger. But when she examines physiological indicators of these same emotions, she finds no sex differences. What is the most likely explanation for this inconsistency?

Having a dominant personality tends to correspond with what aspect of communication style?

Describe what kind of sex differences, if any, researchers examining smiling and eye contact have discovered. Include in your summary a description of one study relevant to smiling and one relevant to eye contact. To what extent are these sex differences affected by culture?

The idea that differences in socialization lead boys and girls to develop different communication styles is represented by ______.

Brescoll and Uhlman (2008) found that women who expressed anger in the workplace were ______ relative to men who expressed anger.

Holleran (2009) analysis of daily conversations revealed what regarding sex differences in the number of words spoken per day?

Describe what emotional intelligence is and briefly summarize what sex differences, if any, emerge with respect to emotional intelligence.

The Whorfian hypothesis proposes that ______.

On average, women are more talkative than men.

How do psychologists define gossip and what kind of sex differences exist in the tendency to engage in gossip?

Reviews of sex differences in communication reveal that women are more likely to ______.

Gossip serves each of the following social functions EXCEPT ______.

Which of the following sex differences in communication has a medium effect size, emerges in childhood and continues into adulthood, and is consistent across culture?

What is the Whorfian hypothesis? Describe the results of two studies that support the Whorfian hypothesis and explain why they support it.

Girls and women, compared to boys and men, more often use gossip as a form of relational aggression.

Each of the followings tend to show small sex differences favoring women EXCEPT ______.