Exam 3

Question 1

What are hostile emotions?

Answer 1

Anger, contempt, disgust, jealousy, envy

Question 2

What are sad and anxious emotions?

Answer 2

Include sadness, depression, grief, fear, social anxiety

Question 3

What are nature of emotions?

Answer 3

Emotions vary in valence and intensity

Question 4

What is valence?

Answer 4

An emotion’s positivity or negativity

Question 5

What is intensity?

Answer 5

An emotion’s strength or magnitude

Question 6

What are primary emotions?

Answer 6

Unique, distinct emotional experiences (e.g. fear, joy, surprise)

Question 7

What are secondary emotions?

Answer 7

Composed of combinations of primary emotions (e.g. jealousy, contempt, remorse)

Question 8

What are meta emotions?

Answer 8

Emotions about other emotions (e.g. feeling embarrassed by jealousy)

Question 9

What is emotional contagion?

Answer 9

People mimic the experiences and expressions of others

Question 10

What is sex and gender?

Answer 10

Androgynous people are more emotionally expressive than highly masculine individuals

Question 11

What is conflict in personal relationships?

Answer 11

Conflict is natural and can have content, relational, and procedural dimensions

Question 12

What is direct conflict?

Answer 12

Conflict that is openly expressed?

Question 13

What is indirect conflict?

Answer 13

Conflict that is not openly expressed

Question 14

What is harmful conflict?

Answer 14

Conflict that has negative consequences

Question 15

What is beneficial conflict?

Answer 15

Conflict that has positive outcomes

Question 16

What is power?

Answer 16

Ability to influence or control others or events

Question 17

What is one up?

Answer 17

Person of power asking someone below them to do something

Question 18

What is one down?

Answer 18

Person of lower power doing a task asked of them

Question 19

What is one across?

Answer 19

Person of power not asserting their power

Question 20

What are French and Raven’s five forms of power?

Answer 20

Reward, coercive, referent, legitimate, and expert power

Question 21

What are common topics of conflict in marriage?

Answer 21

Personal criticisms, finances, chores, children, employment, in-laws, sex, use of time

Question 22

How do sex and gender affect conflict?

Answer 22

Girls and women encouraged to avoid conflict, boys and men encouraged to engage directly

Question 23

What is culture and conflict?

Answer 23

Individualistic cultures encourage standing up for oneself, collectivistic cultures encourage accommodation

Question 24

What is language in conflict?

Answer 24

Differences in low and high context cultures

Question 25

What are Gottman’s four horsemen of the apocalypse?

Answer 25

Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling

Question 26

What is interpersonal conflict?

Answer 26

Expressed struggle between interdependent parties with incompatible goals and scarce resources

Question 27

What are strategies for managing conflict?

Answer 27

Competing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, collaborating

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Question 28

What is Knapp’s five stage model of relationship development?

Answer 28

Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding

Question 29

What is Knapp’s five stage model of relationship dissolution?

Answer 29

Differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating

Question 30

What is attraction theory?

Answer 30

Explains why individuals are drawn to particular others

Question 31

What is uncertainty reduction theory?

Answer 31

We get to know others to reduce uncertainty