Chapter one

Question 1

Describe the risks involved in getting acquainted with others?

Answer 1

• -We fear rejection or not being liked or accepted.
• • Fear of trust. You don’t know if you can trust the other person with the info you are telling them when self-disclosing.
• -we want validation

Question 2

What can a person do to overcome shyness?

Answer 2

Challenge yourself to go into social situations and focus on the individual you are talking to or others, not yourself.

1. analyze your shyness
2. build your self-esteem
3. improve your social skills

Question 3

What is self-discloser?

Answer 3

The revealing of the inner-self, sharing private info with others.

Question 4

What are advantages of self-discloser?

Answer 4

• -helps to establish relationships
• -better health
• -cathartic: it releases stress
• -helps to understand yourself

Question 5

What is the purpose of the Johari Window? How does it benefit you?

Answer 5

Shows how self-discloser operates and gives you info about yourself. It benefits you because it allows you to become more aware of yourself and your potential as a communicator.

Question 6

What is loneliness?

Answer 6

is the feeling of longing and emptiness caused by lack of emotional and social ties.

Question 7

How can the person overcome the affects of loneliness?

Answer 7

you must make emotional attachments and social ties because they provide us with the feelings of belonging

Question 8

What is an emotional attachment and a social ties? importance in relationship?

Answer 8

Emotional: we want to know that no matter the situation or whatever we do that there will always be someone around to take care of us.

Social: provide us with the feeling of belonging

importance: to have a fulfilling life and overcome the feeling of loneliness

Question 9

explain how first impressions, stereotyping and prejudices influence our perception of others?

Answer 9

first impressions: the first impressions we have on another person may have a strong impact on our future interactions with them. Leads to prejudice. Our fist impressions come from remarks made by others around us.

–prejudice: judging a book by its cover. We prejudge a person or group of people prior to having all known info and facts.

Stereotyping: Preconceived, inaccurate beliefs about an individual or group of people. contributes more than other factor in determining our prejudices. Disrespectful attitude towards others.

–problems of prejudice: discrimination, categorization, attributions etc.

Question 10

Explain the attribution process?

Answer 10

Shows that we frequently over-estimate the influence of a person’s personality and under-estimate the impact of the situation he or she is in

–the attribution process allows us to make sense out of other peoples actions, figure out their attitudes and personality traits by predicting their behavior.