Chapter 5 True/False Self-Quiz

. When you listen it is important to mask your feelings and be as neutral as possible.

. Reactive devaluation is the tendency to undervalue one's partner's credibility.

. The illusion of transparency is falsely assuming that we are expressing ourselves clearly and effectively when we are not.

. Positions are the initial demands each party makes during a conflict. Interests are the reasons behind these demands.

. Gunny sacking means denying that conflicts exist by ignoring them. false

. Kitchen sinking is a positive therapeutic process in which one airs all of one's feelings at once.

. Entity theorists are doomed to fail at conflict.

. Current theorists recognize that people have not one, but many, sources of intelligence.

. There is evidence that subjects high in EI are rated as more caring by their friends and have fewer roommate conflicts than those who lack EI.

. To paraphrase is to state in your own words what you think the other person means.

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