COM 312 UPDATED EXAM 2026 PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - ✔✔GOTTMAN'S CASCADE MODEL
Complaints and Criticism
*attacking a person's character
* types of complaint: behavior, personal characteristics, performance, personal
appearance, metacomplaints
Contempt/Disgust
* partners insult and psychologically abuse each other
Defensiveness
*neither person is willing to take responsibility for his or her behavior
Stonewalling
*withdrawal from interaction
* predicts divorce
✔✔MODULE 4, LECTURE 3 - ✔✔Problematic Conflict Interactions: Myths and Facts
about interpersonal Violence
✔✔Key Terms - ✔✔VIOLENCE --> any action intended to harm another person
physically
SEXUAL VIOLENCE --> a subset of physical violence including sexual assault,
attempted rape, rape
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) --> range of physical violence in intimate
relationships
COMMUNICATIVE AGGRESSION --> any recurring set of messages that function to
impair a person's enduring preferred self-image
SEVERE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE --> beating, strangling, using a weapon
MINOR PHYSICAL VIOLENCE ---> shoving, kicking, slapping
✔✔Myth #1
Violence is obvious - ✔✔- violence exists on a continuum
- violence is influenced by individual and cultural factors
- violence is understood, defined and evaluated differently by different people
✔✔Myth #2
, Violence is gendered - ✔✔- males are far more likely to be victims as well as
perpetrators of violence in society in general
- compared to men, women experience greater psychological and physical harm from
intimate partner violence
- females engage in at least as much violence in intimate relationships as males do
✔✔Myth #3
Physical violence is more traumatizing than communicative aggresion - ✔✔-
communicative aggression has more damaging and long-term effects on quality of life
then physical violence
✔✔Types of Communicative Aggression - ✔✔Verbal Aggression
- screams at me for no reason; is verbally aggressive toward me
Freedom Restriction
- checks up on me; regularly monitors my behavior
Risk Taking
- engages in offensive or illegal acts; drives recklessly when I'm in the passenger in the
car
Degrading Dominance
- forces to do things I don't want to do; treats me like a personal servant
Threatening Valued Resources
- denies me money, threatens my family or friends
Isolation
- isolates me from my friends or family; alienates those care about me
Humiliation
- spreads bad stories or information about me; insults me in front of others
Insecurity Induction
- threatens to have an affair; threatens to leave me
Withdrawal
- does not respond to me or my attempts to talk; withholds affection from me
Name-Calling
- uses profanity in reference to me; calls me negative names or uses insults towards
me
Dominance
- dominates me; controls who I can see or talk to
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - ✔✔GOTTMAN'S CASCADE MODEL
Complaints and Criticism
*attacking a person's character
* types of complaint: behavior, personal characteristics, performance, personal
appearance, metacomplaints
Contempt/Disgust
* partners insult and psychologically abuse each other
Defensiveness
*neither person is willing to take responsibility for his or her behavior
Stonewalling
*withdrawal from interaction
* predicts divorce
✔✔MODULE 4, LECTURE 3 - ✔✔Problematic Conflict Interactions: Myths and Facts
about interpersonal Violence
✔✔Key Terms - ✔✔VIOLENCE --> any action intended to harm another person
physically
SEXUAL VIOLENCE --> a subset of physical violence including sexual assault,
attempted rape, rape
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) --> range of physical violence in intimate
relationships
COMMUNICATIVE AGGRESSION --> any recurring set of messages that function to
impair a person's enduring preferred self-image
SEVERE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE --> beating, strangling, using a weapon
MINOR PHYSICAL VIOLENCE ---> shoving, kicking, slapping
✔✔Myth #1
Violence is obvious - ✔✔- violence exists on a continuum
- violence is influenced by individual and cultural factors
- violence is understood, defined and evaluated differently by different people
✔✔Myth #2
, Violence is gendered - ✔✔- males are far more likely to be victims as well as
perpetrators of violence in society in general
- compared to men, women experience greater psychological and physical harm from
intimate partner violence
- females engage in at least as much violence in intimate relationships as males do
✔✔Myth #3
Physical violence is more traumatizing than communicative aggresion - ✔✔-
communicative aggression has more damaging and long-term effects on quality of life
then physical violence
✔✔Types of Communicative Aggression - ✔✔Verbal Aggression
- screams at me for no reason; is verbally aggressive toward me
Freedom Restriction
- checks up on me; regularly monitors my behavior
Risk Taking
- engages in offensive or illegal acts; drives recklessly when I'm in the passenger in the
car
Degrading Dominance
- forces to do things I don't want to do; treats me like a personal servant
Threatening Valued Resources
- denies me money, threatens my family or friends
Isolation
- isolates me from my friends or family; alienates those care about me
Humiliation
- spreads bad stories or information about me; insults me in front of others
Insecurity Induction
- threatens to have an affair; threatens to leave me
Withdrawal
- does not respond to me or my attempts to talk; withholds affection from me
Name-Calling
- uses profanity in reference to me; calls me negative names or uses insults towards
me
Dominance
- dominates me; controls who I can see or talk to
