Chapter 8 True/False Self-Quiz

. Zen practitioners believe that people should focus on getting their needs and desires met as quickly as possible.

. A child's relationship with his or her primary caregiver is relatively unimportant in the development of the self-concept.

. According to your text the best communicator style is the open style.

. According to your text, individuals should strive to become more rhetorically sensitive.

. The idea that two people should match the amount and depth of their self-disclosures is called the norm of reciprocity.

. An aligning action is a way people explain away deviations from the norm.

. Lederman's research suggests that people seldom engage in self-talk.

. Communication apprehension is almost impossible to treat.

. Mary Borhek suggests that coming out letters written to parents should be written in a playful, joking tone in order to reduce emotion.

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