Trusting has three components. Of the following descriptions, which shows trusting behavior the most? You are trusting if you are taking risks by
a. Self-disclosing, being open, and sharing your resources to help other people
b. Being trustworthy by returning things unharmed you borrowed from friends and telling them how much they mean to you
c. Expressing acceptance, self-disclosing, and sharing your resources to help other people
d. Expressing support and faith in the other person's strengths, self-disclosing, and being open
Ques. 2Which of the following scenarios is a good example for trust as defined by Deutsch?
a. Pat, a well-to-do lawyer bets 15 on a horse named Swan, as a good friend of hers assures her that Swan is the fastest horse. She hopes to win 3,000.
b. Naomi lends her textbook to Bill two days before their final exam and expects it back the next day, after Bill reads the assigned chapters.
c. Barbara is a very nice and honest person. She would never tell a lie, and she would never gossip about anyone. You can share anything with her and ask for her advice.
d. Todd has decided to trust Emma from the moment they first met. They have been together now for 5 years, and he is just as trusting with her as he was on their first date.
Ques. 3Everybody likes Pam because she is such a good listener. If anyone has a personal problem, she is the one they confide in. The reason for that could be that
a. She first tries to understand you without making judgments.
b. She has excellent verbal skills and thus can express her feelings accurately.
c. Communication is really efficient as she does not ask for clarifications and does not bother to paraphrase what the other person has just said.
d. Her nonverbal messages are congruent with what the other person is saying.
Ques. 4Bradley and Bryant provided phonological awareness training to some five and six year olds and no special training to others. The results were that:
a. trained students showed a much greater improvement on tests of phonological awareness than did control students
b. trained students showed a much greater improvement in word reading than did control students
c. both of the above
d. neither of the above
Ques. 5Amy has been friends with Lea for years: they went to the same high school and were together almost every afternoon. When they went to college, they made some new friends. One of their new mutual friends told Amy that Lea told her some rather interesting things about Amy. Since then Amy is not willing to be open with Lea. Their story demonstrated which principle about trust?
a. Being trusting and trustworthy are two sides of the same coin
b. Being trusting and trustworthy are one and the same thing.
c. It takes two people to build trust.
d. One person alone can destroy trust.
Ques. 6Misunderstandings can be caused by several types of noises. Which of the following is not an example for emotional or social source of noise?
a. The sender does not have good verbal ability
b. The receiver is highly evaluative of the sender and the message
c. The sender does not trust the receiver
d. The receiver is upset about something unrelated to the content of the communication
Ques. 7People with high degree of trust tend to provide inaccurate and slightly distorted views of the problem.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 8You can establish your credibility in a second.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 9Thorndike called for applying psychological findings to educational practice. This is an example of which view of the relation between psychology and education?
a. one-way street
b. dead-end street
c. two-way street
d. cautious optimism
Ques. 10On campus, Joan walks by Paul and greets him with a smile and a How are you? whereas Paul starts to describe his health, only to see that Joan is already a block away from him. Which one of the seven basic elements of communication was not appropriate in this situation?
a. Channel
b. Decoding
c. Encoding
d. Sender's intentions
Ques. 11It is easier to learn how to use one word processor if you already know how to use another one. This is an example of:
a. negative transfer
b. positive transfer
c. neutral transfer
d. control group
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