Exam 9: Power, decision Making, and Communication

In conversations,men are more likely to:

Power in intimate relationships is defined as the ability to influence one's partner to get what one wants.

According to social control theory,using power as a response to an upsetting behavior by others serves three functions.Name them.

Which type of barrier to communication is considered to be the most important?

According to exchange theorists,satisfaction in marriage hinges on:

Research shows that minor violence is least likely to occur in ______ marital relationships.

Educated,middle-class ideology in the United States emphasizes a patriarchal exercise of family power.

In the study of families in which the men made more money than the women,and of families in which the women earned more,none of the men who were employed full-time in either group did more than half of the domestic labor.

According to the text,the need to have power over other people is:

Which of the following is true of psychological games?

Seeing the problem as a difficulty the couple is having,rather than as something one partner does to the other is a good guideline to follow for arguing constructively.

Identify three ways in which clarity and accuracy in communication can be enhanced.

Psychological games are used for which of the following reasons:

Implementation power is the power to make the important decisions that determine family lifestyles and the major characteristics and features of the family.

Which of the following is an important principle for improving communication?

Couples who interact in an anarchic fashion do so because _____.

The power bestowed by society on men and women as their right according to social prescription is called

Our families of origin _______ how we exercise power.

Research comparing distressed and non-distressed couples found that distressed couples:

The first power base from which the child learns to function is the