Chapter 12 - Power and Violence

Question 1

Principle of lesser interest

Answer 1

the person who has less interest in continuing and maintaining the relationship has more power in that partnership

Question 2

How does CLalt affect power in a relationship

Answer 2

Higher CLalt, more power

Question 3

Fate control

Answer 3

One can autocratically determine what outcomes a partner receives, thereby controlling the other’s fate.

Question 4

Behavior control

Answer 4

One can autocratically determine what outcomes a partner receives, thereby controlling the other’s fate.

Question 5

Types of power (6)

Answer 5

Reward power
Coercive power
Legitimate power
Referent power
Expert power
Informational power

Question 6

Reward power

Answer 6

You can give them something they like or take away something they don’t like.

Question 7

Coercive power

Answer 7

You can do something to them they don’t like or take away something they do like.

Question 8

Legitimate power

Answer 8

They recognize your authority to tell them what to do.

Question 9

Referent power

Answer 9

They identify with you, feeling attracted and wanting to remain close.

Question 10

Expert power

Answer 10

You have the broad understanding they desire.

Question 11

Informational power

Answer 11

You possess some specific knowledge they desire.

Question 12

4 dimensions of equality in a relationship

Answer 12

-Relative status
-Attention to the other
-Patterns of accommodation
-Well-being

Question 13

What makes someone seem more powerful in conversation

Answer 13

How often they successfully interrupt the other person

Question 14

Violence

Answer 14

behave in a manner that is intended to do physical harm to others

Question 15

Types of couple violence (3)

Answer 15

-Situational couple violence
-Intimate terrorism
-Violent resistance

Question 16

Situational couple violence (SCV)

Answer 16

both partners are angry and is tied to specific arguments, so it is only occasional and is usually mild

Question 17

Intimate terrorism (IT)

Answer 17

Use of violence to oppress the other partner. general pattern of threats, isolation, and economic subordination. Often includes physical force and coercion.

Question 18

Violent resistance

Answer 18

partner forcibly fights back against intimate terrorism.

Question 19

Mate-guarding

Answer 19

work to regulate and control our partners’ access to potential rivals

Question 20

Strategies of mate-guarding (3)

Answer 20

-Monopolizing partner’s time
-Surveillance and vigilance
-Violence

Question 21

I3 model of influences on SCV (3) (Finkel, 2014)

Answer 21

-Instigating triggers
-Impelling influences
-Inhibiting influences

Question 22

Instigating triggers

Answer 22

cause one/both partners to be frustrated/on edge

Question 23

Impelling influences

Answer 23

make it more likely that the partners will experience violent impulses

Question 24

Inhibiting influences

Answer 24

encourage the partners to refrain from acting on those impulses

Question 25

Why does the I3 model say we have refrained from violence

Answer 25

the impelling influences stimulating us to lash out were too weak or because the inhibiting forces dissuading us from physical action were too strong

Question 26

Types of impelling influences or inhibiting influences (4)

Answer 26

-Distal
-Dispositional
-Relational
-Situational

Question 27

Distal impelling influence example

Answer 27

Violent family of origin

Question 28

Dispositional impelling influence example

Answer 28

Negative emotionality

Question 29

Relational impelling influence example

Answer 29

Mismatched attachment styles

Question 30

Situational impelling influence example

Answer 30

Heat and noise

Question 31

Distal inhibiting influence

Answer 31

Egalitarian cultural norms

Question 32

Dispositional inhibiting influence example

Answer 32

Conscientiousness

Question 33

Relational inhibiting influence example

Answer 33

Satisfaction and commitment

Question 34

Situational inhibiting influence example

Answer 34

Sobriety

Question 35

Men who are intimate terrorists are likely to (3)

Answer 35

-Have witnessed violence growing up/been abused
-Grew up in misogynistic homes
-Think of women as adversaries to be used for pleasure

Question 36

Stalking

Answer 36

repeated, malicious following and harassing of an unwilling target