Exam 1

Question 1

Human Relations studies focus on intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup, and organizational behaviors.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Helpers should assume the ultimate responsibility for solving other people’s problems.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Human Relations education draws extensively from social and behavioral sciences and education theories and concepts.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The most effective helpers do not believe that all people, including criminals, should be treated with respect.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

A helper’s intervention methods and techniques are the keys to his or her effectiveness.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

When they answer other people’s questions, helpers should be brutally truthful.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True empathy requires being able to temporarily leave one’s own life-space and try to think and feel like another person.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The best human relations theories do not state what is good but merely what would happen if certain things occur.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Good human relations theories are nothing more than common sense applied to social problems.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

A clarified and well though-out theory can create order out of what otherwise would appear to be a disorganized situation.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

According to Paul Mok, The Thinker is characterized by heavy emphasis on ideas, theories and long-range planning.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

According to Paul Mok, The Sensor tries to analyze and understand the emotions of other people.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Human relations training began nationally in the United States during the post-World War II.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

According to David Riesman, organization men and women of the 1940s and 1950s survived by distinguishing their thoughts from feelings and not leaving major decision to a few leaders.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

The rise of human relations training was a result of young person in particular questioning existing socialization practices.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

In appropriately designed human relations training groups, conformity becomes the central focus of participant interactions.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

According to the principles of humanistic psychology, a healthy person does not have to disclose herself or himself (be transparent) to other people.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

According to Carl Rogers, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry David Thoreau, and other humanistic-oriented persons, human relations programs should assist in raising nations to a higher lever of humanity.

Answer 18

True.

Question 19

The humanities unify societies through the development of common emotional and intellectual frameworks among their individual members.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Not all of the arts are means of communication.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Dance is a means of expression that uses the body as a medium in space and time.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

To appreciate music is to respond impulsively to it as an element of our humanity.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Some social scientists use role-playing and psychodrama techniques borrowed from the theater.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Existentialism is a philosophy that does not focus on integrity, unique distinction, courage and human effort.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The most effective human relations practitioners do not need knowledge of relevant history in order to understand current problems that center on race, ethnicity, gender and nationality.

Answer 25

False