Communication

Question 1

What are intrusive interruptions?

Answer 1

to take over the floor, control the conversation

Question 2

What are affilative interruptions?

Answer 2

to show interest, affirm what the other is saying

Question 3

What are communal speech styles?

Answer 3

emotional, polite, soothing

Question 4

What are agentic speech styles?

Answer 4

direct, goal-oriented, abrupt

Question 5

What is visual dominance?

Answer 5

tendency to look at lower-status individual while talking, to look away when listening

Question 6

Define touch based on social status?

Answer 6

touching down on the hierarchy but not up

Question 7

What is the gender difference between men, women in facial expressions?

Answer 7

smiling females are better than men with a moderate effect size, the strongest predictor for women smiling is social tension

Question 8

What is the gender difference in decoding ability?

Answer 8

females are better than men with a moderate effect size. women are better able to decode fear, happiness, sadness but its equal for decoding anger

Question 9

What is prosocial behavior?

Answer 9

voluntary behavior intended to benefit someone else.

Question 10

What are the three ways to measure prosocial behavior?

Answer 10

heroism, nurturance/kindness/emotional, inclusive

Question 11

What is the gender difference is heroism?

Answer 11

males are better than females

Question 12

What is the gender difference in nurturance?

Answer 12

females are better than males

Question 13

What is the gender difference in inclusive?

Answer 13

no gender difference

Question 14

What does empathy mean?

Answer 14

the ability to understand the emotion that another person is feeling

Question 15

What are the gender comparisons when measuring empathy using self report?

Answer 15

females are better than men

Question 16

What is the gender comparison when measuring physiological responses, non verbal cues, behavior unobtrusively?

Answer 16

no gender difference because it`s a non-social component

Question 17

What is aggression?

Answer 17

any behavior directed toward another person with the intention of doing harm.

Question 18

What are the problems with researching aggression?

Answer 18

social construction which is how we define, construct aggression

Question 19

What are the types of aggression?

Answer 19

overt, relational

Question 20

What does it mean to be overt, what is the gender comparison?

Answer 20

physical aggression; males are better than females

Question 21

What does it mean to be relational, what is the gender comparison?

Answer 21

hurtful,manipulation eg silent treatment, not causing harm; females are better than men

Question 22

Why do we see gender differences?

Answer 22

social factors, biologically reasons