Which of the following statements is supported by research findings?
A. Females tend to self disclose more than males.
B. Males tend to self-disclose more than females.
C. Males and females tend to self-disclose about the same.
D. Males self-disclose more than females to friends, females disclose more than males to strangers.
Question 2Which of the following statements is not supported by research findings?
A. We disclose to other people only when we like them.
B. We tend to like the people we disclose to.
C. We tend to respond to intimate disclosure from new acquaintances with intimate disclosure about ourselves.
D. We tend to disclose to people we like.
Question 3If you had to say you learned something about conversations in this chapter, which of the following would it be?
A. Noticeable signs of intimacy are lacking in conversations with strangers.
B. Familiar terms are not used very often among good friends.
C. There is little difference between the amount of self-disclosure with friends and with strangers.
D. There is more confusion over when to speak in conversations with good friends than in conversations with strangers.
Question 4Compared to two people just getting to know one another, two good friends
A. disclose relatively little to one another.
B. are more likely to reciprocate their partner's level of intimacy during a conversation.
C. are less likely to reciprocate their partner's level of intimacy during a conversation.
D. typically limit their conversations to intimate topics.
Question 5For people who move frequently, researchers found they used self-disclosure to make new friends
A. more before they moved than after.
B. very little.
C. more to new neighbors after they moved than the old neighbors.
D. a lot.
Question 6Participants in one experiment selected topics to discuss from a list provided by the experimenter. They took turns discussing topics until each participant had spoken 12 times. When researchers examined the intimacy levels of the topics selected, they found each of the following results except one. Which one?
A. Participants began their conversations with relatively nonintimate topics.
B. The intimacy of the topics increased as the experiment progressed.
C. Participants tended to match their partner's level of intimacy.
D. Participants became more anxious as the intimacy levels of the topics increased.
Question 7According to the rules of disclosure reciprocity, people who disclose personal information in get-acquainted conversations tend to
A. talk to themselves spontaneously.
B. make judgments about the other person's self-esteem.
C. talk about others more than themselves.
D. match each other's level of intimacy.
Question 8According to the rule of disclosure reciprocity,
A. we should always wait for people to disclose something about themselves before disclosing intimate information about ourselves.
B. we should always try to say something self disclosing when first meeting another person.
C. two people involved in a get acquainted conversation reveal information about themselves at roughly the same level of intimacy.
D. we usually like people who self disclose to us.
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