CMS 315 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Coping with gossip about others - ✔✔preemptive positive evaluation, affirm an
actual comparable fact, with sarcasm, change topic
✔✔Coping with gossip about yourself - ✔✔- Ignore
- Deny
- Label it as gossip
- Question the motives
- Go to source
- Use support groups
- Find more information
- Distract
✔✔Big three influences of interpersonal needs - ✔✔Inclusion, Control, Affection
✔✔Extroverts - ✔✔are associated with strong inclusion needs. Tend to be socially
active and strong social support network
✔✔Introverts - ✔✔are associated with low inclusion needs; tend to be seen as reserved
and serious
, ✔✔Control - ✔✔we want to have control of our life - trying to maintain a balance
between controlling some situations and topics and being controlled in others
✔✔verbal indicators of control - ✔✔speaking first, interrupting, talking more, and
changing topics
✔✔nonverbal indicators of control - ✔✔taking up more space - w/ posture
✔✔overhelping (control) - ✔✔I help you because I want the credit, not because I really
want to help.
✔✔Sandbagging (control) - ✔✔Occurs a lot in conflict, this is where I play dumb. I act
weaker or less effective than I am. So that I can control your actions
✔✔Affection - ✔✔need to be loved and cared for. Is important to interpersonal health.
✔✔Immediacy - ✔✔Closeness
✔✔Verbal indicators of immediacy - ✔✔communal language "we",
✔✔nonverbal indicators of immediacy - ✔✔mutual gaze, leaning towards someone,
nonverbal feedback
✔✔need compatibility - ✔✔attraction based on sharing similar needs
✔✔symmetrical compatibility - ✔✔equality is the name of the game. Each partner fulfills
each others needs.
✔✔complimentary compatibility - ✔✔based on differences. Partners exchange different
and/or complimentary sorts of behaviors.
✔✔Our own needs - ✔✔it's difficult to analyze them, we lack awareness of them.
✔✔repression of needs - ✔✔We don't want to think about our needs. Actively trying to
lie to yourself.
✔✔Favorable self-bias - ✔✔We are not accurate when we do not think about needs -
taking a need that I think is negative and framing it to be more postive
✔✔avoidance of needs - ✔✔avoiding talking about our needs because we don't want to
feel vulnerable
✔✔self-fulfilling prophecy - ✔✔what you think gradually becomes how others behave
and thus reinforces what you think
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Coping with gossip about others - ✔✔preemptive positive evaluation, affirm an
actual comparable fact, with sarcasm, change topic
✔✔Coping with gossip about yourself - ✔✔- Ignore
- Deny
- Label it as gossip
- Question the motives
- Go to source
- Use support groups
- Find more information
- Distract
✔✔Big three influences of interpersonal needs - ✔✔Inclusion, Control, Affection
✔✔Extroverts - ✔✔are associated with strong inclusion needs. Tend to be socially
active and strong social support network
✔✔Introverts - ✔✔are associated with low inclusion needs; tend to be seen as reserved
and serious
, ✔✔Control - ✔✔we want to have control of our life - trying to maintain a balance
between controlling some situations and topics and being controlled in others
✔✔verbal indicators of control - ✔✔speaking first, interrupting, talking more, and
changing topics
✔✔nonverbal indicators of control - ✔✔taking up more space - w/ posture
✔✔overhelping (control) - ✔✔I help you because I want the credit, not because I really
want to help.
✔✔Sandbagging (control) - ✔✔Occurs a lot in conflict, this is where I play dumb. I act
weaker or less effective than I am. So that I can control your actions
✔✔Affection - ✔✔need to be loved and cared for. Is important to interpersonal health.
✔✔Immediacy - ✔✔Closeness
✔✔Verbal indicators of immediacy - ✔✔communal language "we",
✔✔nonverbal indicators of immediacy - ✔✔mutual gaze, leaning towards someone,
nonverbal feedback
✔✔need compatibility - ✔✔attraction based on sharing similar needs
✔✔symmetrical compatibility - ✔✔equality is the name of the game. Each partner fulfills
each others needs.
✔✔complimentary compatibility - ✔✔based on differences. Partners exchange different
and/or complimentary sorts of behaviors.
✔✔Our own needs - ✔✔it's difficult to analyze them, we lack awareness of them.
✔✔repression of needs - ✔✔We don't want to think about our needs. Actively trying to
lie to yourself.
✔✔Favorable self-bias - ✔✔We are not accurate when we do not think about needs -
taking a need that I think is negative and framing it to be more postive
✔✔avoidance of needs - ✔✔avoiding talking about our needs because we don't want to
feel vulnerable
✔✔self-fulfilling prophecy - ✔✔what you think gradually becomes how others behave
and thus reinforces what you think
