Question: __________ messages lie between confirming and disconfirming messages.

Answer Options:
Disagreeing
\nEndorsement
\nImpervious
\nIrrelevant

Answer: Disagreeing

Question: “I suspect you will encounter resistance to that approach” is a comment that reflects __________.

Answer Options:
Provisionalism
\nCertainty
\nEquality
\nNeutrality

Answer: Certainty

Question: When both partners treat one another with matching hostility, one threat and insult leading to another, they are in a(n) _________.

Answer Options:
escalatory spiral
\nde-escalatory spiral
\ncomplementary conflict
\nserial argument

Answer: escalatory spiral

Question: All of the following are examples of family practice core privileges for care of the infants and children, adolescents, and adults for most illnesses, disorders, and injuries, except:

Answer Options:
A. treatment
\nB. diagnosis
\nC. admission
\nD. evaluation
\nE. delivery of babies

Answer: E. delivery of babies

Question: Being invested in each other’s friends and family is related to which strategy of relational maintenance?

Answer Options:
Openness
\nSocial networks

Answer: Social networks

Question: Sean criticized his boss, Maria, to another employee, Chris, who shared his negative appraisal of Maria with her at the office Christmas party. Maria responded by listing Sean’s professional inadequacies. This is an example of _________ conflict.

Answer Options:
destructive symmetrical
\nconstructive symmetrical

Answer: destructive symmetrical

Question: After spending weeks getting to know each other on Facebook, Melanie and Riley took the plunge and met in person. Although they had established a warm relationship on social media, they both found their first date awkward, a problem that can result from __________.

Answer Options:
Pseudo-intimacy
\nModality switching Correct
\nThe connection-autonomy dialectic
\nIntegrating

Answer: Modality switching