Communication / Chapter 5 Flashcards
Meg (63 cards)
Couple spend about ___ hours a week in communication with one another
14
Couples who communicate with _____, ______, and ______ experience higher relationship quality than couples who communicate with ______, ______, and _____
warmth, positivity, affection; anger, hostility, contempt
What are the 2 challenges of communication?
Encoding and decoding
What is encoding?
communicating effectively to someone
What is decoding?
Accurately interpreting what someone is trying to communicate with you
The _____ and ____ of a couple’s communications predicts their relationship well-being
sensitivity and accuracy
Study: Gender and Communication (Noller) - Encoding and Decoding
What was the study about?
married couples’ abilility to encode and decode
Study: Gender and Communication (Noller) - Encoding and Decoding
What were the main findings in terms of gender and encoding/decoding?
Wives are better encoders (especially positive messages)
Study: Gender and Communication (Noller) - Encoding and Decoding
What were the implications of this study?
Might explain why communication difficulties are associated with marital quality
Follow-up Study: Gender and Communication (Noller) - Encoding and Decoding
What was the study about?
Shown a video of strangers sending similar messages
Married people decoded someone who was not their spouse
Follow-up Study: Gender and Communication (Noller) - Encoding and Decoding
What were the main findings?
marital satisfaction and decoding abilities were unrelated
dissatisfied couples show differences in performance, not skill; low marital quality worse at decoding spouse than stranger
What is empathetic accuracy?
the ability to correctly infer another person’s thoughts and emotions
T/F: there are gender differences in empathetic accuracy
Controversial - some studies = no difference, some find women better than men
Empathetic Accuracy Study: Motivation or Ability? (Klein & Hodges)
What was the study about?
undergraduate students
3 conditions: control, feedback on performance, money ($2) for each correct response
watched a video of a female discussing academic problem
participants asked to infer what the person was thinking/feeling in the moment
Empathetic Accuracy Study: Motivation or Ability? (Klein & Hodges)
What were the main findings?
motivation (feedback or money) eliminates gender differences for decoding
extra motivation (money) makes people more accurate
Most relationships begin with a form of ______ communication
nonverbal
What are the highest rated pickup lines among women (from men)?
- hi
- do you want to dance?
- want to play frisbee?
what are the highest rated pickup lines among men (from women)?
- sitting along - care to join?
- hi
- help me start my car?
What are the lowest rated pickup lines among women (from men)?
- is that your hair?
- bet i can outdrink you
- notice me throwing a football?
what are the lowest rated pickup lines among men (from women)?
- meeting in past life
- long time since i had a boyfriend
- gorgeous chassis, can i look under the hood?
T/F: people generally prefer indirect pickup lines
False
T/F: Opening lines that are intended to be cute or flippant are consistently rated as the least appealing
True
T/F: Women rate sexually loaded pickup lines even more negatively than direct requests for sex
True
Study: Asking people out on campus (Clark and Hatfield)
What was the study about?
undergraduate students
asking:
1. “would you go out with me tonight?”
2. “would you come to my apartment tonight?”
3. “want to have sex tonight?”
assessing gender differences for direct requests for sex
