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CHAPTER 12
POWER AND VIOLENCE
Multiple-Choice Questions
4. For your roommate it is very important that the two of you live together next year. You
wouldnt mind living with him/her again next year, but have considered other options. In
this relationship you have more power than your roommate. This is an example of
A. the principle of lesser interest
B. the principle of greater options
C. intimate terrorism
D. behavior control
Answer: A
6. From a comparison level perspective, quitting work after marriage is likely to decrease
power by reducing
A. sex drive.
B. attractiveness of others.
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C. life stresses.
D. alternatives.
Answer: D
7. When someone has control of all possible outcomes for their partner, this is known as
A. life control.
B. fate control.
C. mind control.
D. parental control.
Answer: B
8. Derrick accepted a job in another state. His wife, who is not employed outside the
home, is not happy about moving but feels she doesnt have a choice. This is an example
of
A. counterpower
B. life control
C. fate control
D. behavior control
Answer: C
9. Alice tells her partner that shell bake cookies while he mows the lawn. This is an
example of
A. fate control
B. behavior control
C. life control
D. referent control
Answer: B
10. Mrs. Garcia says she will take away 13-year-old Samanthas cell phone if Samantha
keeps having phone conversations during the familys dinner hour. On what basis of power
does this way of influencing her daughters behavior rely?
A. coercion
B. expertise
C. legitimate
D. referent
E. reward
Answer: A
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12. Which kind of power do we willingly give to another person out of identification with
that person?
A. coercive
B. expertise
C. informational
D. legitimate
E. referent
Answer: E
13. When a professor asks a student in class to stop talking to his neighbor and join the
class discussion that professor is most likely exercising
A. legitimate power
B. informational power
C. referent power
D. expert power
Answer: A
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Answer: B
21. When one communicator is more powerful than the other, who is responsible for
keeping track of what is being communicated generally?
A. The boss
B. The subordinate
C. They are both equally responsible
D. Someone else
Answer: C
22. According to research by Peplau, indirect and unilateral styles of power are most
likely to be used by
A. homosexual women.
B. homosexual men.
C. heterosexual women.
D. heterosexual men.
Answer: C
23. When they want to begin a relationship, men are likely to use
A. a direct strategy.
B. an indirect strategy.
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C. a bilateral strategy.
D. a unilateral strategy.
Answer: A
26. Which of the following conclusions could one draw from this chapter on power?
A. Power is necessarily corrosive to relationships.
B. Power typically enhances important relationships.
C. Power is neither malevolent nor benevolent in relationships.
D. Power has little bearing on relationships.
Answer: C
27. In a phone interview survey of Americans researchers found that ___ of women and
___ of men had experienced a violent assault of by an intimate partner.
A. 5%, 2%
B. 14%, 3%
C. 22%, 7%
D. 36%, 15%
Answer: C
28. When violence erupts from a heated conflict that gets out of hand this type of violence
is called
A. intimate terrorism
B. intimate control
C. situational couple violence
D. violent resistance
Answer: C
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30. The evolutionary theory that suggests we work to regulate and control our partners
access to potential rivals is
A. intimate resistance
B. intimate terrorism
C. mate-resistance
D. mate-guarding
Answer: D
33. An individual who comes from a violent family or lives in a culture that condones
intimate partner violence has _______ influences on violence.
A. relational
B. situational
C. distal
D. stylistic
Answer: C
34. With regard to couple violence among heterosexuals in the United States,
A. women are more likely to be physically injured by their partners violent actions.
B. women are less likely to act violently toward their partners.
C. men are more likely to use physical tactics against their partners.
D. all of these
Answer: A
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35._______ influences make it more likely that partners will experience violent impulses,
_______ influences encourage partners to refrain from acting on those impulses.
A. Inhibiting, impelling
B. Inclusive, impelling
C. Inhibiting, inclusive
D. Impelling, inhibiting
Answer: D
36. Cohabiting couples experience more violence than married couples do. This is a
_________ influence on violence
A. relational
B. situational
C. distal
D. stylistic
Answer: A
39. In research on men who were incarcerated for abusing their female partners, Julia
Wood found that
A. almost all of the men were remorseful for their actions
B. most saw themselves as abusers because of their actions
C. all mentioned their partners provocation as the source of their abuse
D. most believed they were not entitled to use violence in their relationships, it has just
happened
Answer: C
40. Which of the following factors have been found to influence the tendency of some
women to stay in abusive relationships?
A. anxious-ambivalent attachment.
B. dysfunctional reinforcement patterns.
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