Relational Transgressions Encounter MCQs
Relational Transgressions Encounter MCQs
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1: ______ refer(s) to words that elicit psychological pain.
A. Relational transgressions
B. Devaluation
C. Hurtful messages
D. Jealousy
2: The most intense hurt feelings arise when a partner’s words or actions communicate ______, which involves feeling unappreciated and unimportant.
A. Deception
B. Devaluation
C. Jealousy
D. Hurtful messages
3: Research has examined three general ways people respond to hurtful messages. Which of the following describes an acquiescent response?
A. Questioning the partner and asking for an explanation that may help partners understand one another
B. Ignore the hurtful message, laugh it off, become quiet or withdraw
C. A declaration of intent to inflict punishment under certain conditions
D. Giving in and acknowledging the partner’s ability to inflict hurt
4: Relational transgressions occur when people violate implicit or explicit relational rules.
A. True
B. False
5: When going into a job interview, Avery tells the manager that he has worked in the foodservice industry before, but doesn’t go into any details. This is an example of ______.
A. Understatement
B. Intentional mistake
C. Exaggeration
D. Concealment
6: Identify the difference between transgression-maximizing messages and transgression-minimizing messages.
A. Transgression-maximizing messages put the blame of the transgression on the person being betrayed, whereas transgression-minimizing messages put the blame on the transgressor.
B. Transgression-maximizing messages highlight the negative aspects of the transgression, while transgression-minimizing messages attempt to downplay the severity of the transgression by using strategies such as saying that the partner’s behavior was unintentional.
C. Transgression-maximizing messages download the severity of the transgression by using strategies such as saying that the partner’s behavior was unintentional, while transgression-minimizing messages highlight the negative aspects of the transgression.
D. Transgression-maximizing messages blame the transgressor, while transgression-minimizing messages blame the person being betrayed for the couple's problems.
7: One reason that close relational partners might have trouble detecting deception is that the deceiver may exert ______.
A. Truth bias
B. Behavioral control
C. Informal familiarity
D. Concealment
8: What are the five primary types of deception?
A. Threats, accusations, concealments, exaggerations, and understatements
B. Lies, equivocations, concealments, threats, and exaggerations
C. Lies, equivocations, concealments, exaggerations, and understatements
D. Lies, equivocations, evaluations, exaggerations, and understatements
9: Which of the following best describes passive rejection?
A. The partner is uncharacteristically angry, critical, or argumentative.
B. The partner reveals that she or he is no longer in love or wants to pursue other alternatives.
C. The partner seems to be distancing himself or herself emotionally.
D. The partner becomes more inconsiderate or inattentive than usual.
10: Which of the following scenarios describes unrequited love?
A. Christian has romantic feelings for Adrian, but Adrian does not return them.
B. Christian and Adrian in a content romantic relationship with each other.
C. Neither Christian nor Adrian have romantic feelings for the other person, but an outside party has romantic feelings for Adrian.
D. Christian and Adrian used to be in a romantic relationship, but are not in one anymore.
11: Beyond fear and anger, other aversive emotions such as sadness, guilt, hurt, and envy often mark ______.
A. Denial
B. Signs of possession
C. Jealousy
D. Infidelity
12: What is one of the reasons that some people are often portrayed as “playing hard to get?”
A. Goal-linking
B. Rumination
C. Cultural scripts
D. Shifts in motivation
13: ORI includes ______.
A. Stalking behaviors
B. Malicious behavior
C. Spreading false rumors
D. All of these
14: What are two avoidant responses that could be used when responding to jealousy?
A. Negative communication and violent communication
B. Silence and denial
C. Integrative communication and compensatory restoration
D. None of these
15: Linda and Brett report that they experience relational violence and turmoil rarely and it usually only occurs when a conflict gets especially emotional and aggressive. This describes ______.
A. Cultural scripts
B. Isolated common couple violence
C. Repeated common couple violence
D. Intimate terrorism
16: Acquiescent responses that involve giving in and acknowledging that the partner hurt you.
A. True
B. False
17: Active verbal responses focus on confronting the partner about her or his hurtful remarks; they can be ________ .
A. Positive
B. Negative
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
18: Affective flooding an overwhelming flood of emotions when thinking about a person, such as, _________ which keeps you focused on a person.
A. Anger
B. Jealousy
C. Longing
D. All of these
19: Behavioral familiarity having ______ of the partner’s typical communication style.
A. Knowledge
B. Ignorance
C. Sciolism
D. None of these
20: Engaging in sexual activity with a third party to communicate a message to one’s partner is known as _______ .
A. Communicative infidelity
B. Counter-jealousy induction
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. None of these
21: A constructive communicative response to jealousy aimed at improving is known as _______ .
A. Communicative infidelity
B. Counter-jealousy induction
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Compensatory restoration
22: A form of deception that involves omitting information one knows is important or relevant to a given context is known as _______ .
A. Communicative infidelity
B. Concealment
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Compensatory restoration
23: A communicative response to jealousy that involves taking action to make the partner feel jealous too, such as flirting with someone else is known as _______ .
A. Communicative infidelity
B. Counter-jealousy induction
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Compensatory restoration
24: Cultural scripts communication routines that arise from cultural practices and are typically done automatically without thought.
A. True
B. False
25: Pretending not to be jealous or falsely denying feeling jealous is known as _____ .
A. Denial, as a communicative response to jealousy
B. Derogating competitors
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity
26: A communicative response to jealousy designed to cast the rival in a bad light, such as making mean comments about a rival is known as _______ .
A. Denial, as a communicative response to jealousy
B. Derogating competitors
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity
27: Devaluation is a feeling of being _________ , leading to hurt feelings.
A. Unappreciated
B. Unimportant
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
28: An alternative explanation for why men get more upset in response to sexual infidelity and women get more upset in response to emotional infidelity ,this statement is related to ______ .
A. Denial, as a communicative response to jealousy
B. Derogating competitors
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity
29: Emotional infidelity involves another person to the extent that emotional resources such as ________ .
A. Romantic love
B. Time
C. Attention
D. All of these
30: Envy is wanting something you value that someone else has.
A. True
B. False
31: A deceptive form of communication that involves making an indirect ambiguous statement is known as _______ .
A. Equivocation
B. Derogating competitors
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity
32: In evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity men should get more upset over sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity,
A. True
B. False
33: A form of deception that involves stretching the truth, often to make oneself look better or to spice up a story is known as _______ .
A. Equivocation
B. Derogating competitors
C. Double-shot hypothesis
D. Exaggeration
34: Invulnerable responses involve acting _______ by something, such as acting like a hurtful remark did not bother you.
A. Unaffected
B. Affected
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
35: Invulnerable responses involve acting _______ by something, such as acting like a hurtful remark did not bother you.
A. Unaffected
B. Affected
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
36: Isolated common couple violence is an Inappropriate _________ that occurs on rare occasions in a relationship when conflicts become especially heated.
A. Logical aggression
B. Physical aggression
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
37: Jealousy is a _______ about losing something you value, such as a good relationship, due to interference from a rival.
A. Thought
B. Feeling
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
38: Lies are also called falsifications or fabrications.
A. True
B. False
39: _______ communication that reflects negativity,.
A. Aggressive
B. Passive-aggressive
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
40: Obsessive relational intrusion used for the purpose of trying to get close to someone.
A. True
B. False
41: Online infidelity is a ________ facilitated by Internet use that is considered to violate relationship rules regarding faithfulness.
A. Romantic
B. Sexual contact
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
42: Primary appraisals are initial evaluations about whether feelings are good or bad .
A. True
B. False
43: The cognitive process of being able to justify your actions, even if they are inappropriate is known as _______ .
A. Primary appraisals
B. Relational transgressions
C. Rationalization
D. None of these
44: _______ is a theory built on the idea that people expend energy to develop or reinitiate relationships to the extent .
A. Primary appraisals
B. Relational transgressions
C. Rationalization
D. None of these
45: Relational transgressions are the actions that violate ________ relational rules .
A. Implicit
B. Explicit
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
46: Repeated common couple violence is the physical aggression that occurs intermittently in a relationship when conflicts get especially heated.
A. True
B. False
47: A communicative response to jealousy that involves direct communication with a potential rival by a jealous person is known as _______ .
A. Primary appraisals
B. Relational transgressions
C. Rationalization
D. Rival contacts
48: Which of the correct statements about Rivalry?
A. When people believe that a third party threatens the existence or quality of their primary love relationship.
B. The belief that you will be effective and successful in a specific situation.
C. When people believe that a third party threatens the existence or quality of their primary love relationship.
D. None of thes
49: Romantic jealousy is when people believe that a third party threatens the ________ of their primary love relationship.
A. Existence
B. Quality
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
50: Rumination is repeated mulling over certain _________ .
A. Information
B. Behavior
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
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