RAT 4, 5, and 7
Understanding Relationship Dynamics Quiz
Test your knowledge on relationship dynamics and emotional intelligence with this insightful quiz. Dive deep into the principles of effective communication, emotional coaching, and the intricacies of maintaining healthy relationships.
- 28 engaging questions
- Explore key theories and concepts
- Enhance your understanding of interpersonal relationships
According to research with young children, we learn what about the demand-withdraw pattern
Young males do not accept influences as much from young females as females do from both genders
Young females do not accept influence as much from young males as males do from both genders
Young females accept more influence from young males more than they accept influence from other young females
Young males accept more influence from young females more than they accept influence from other young males
All of the following are true except which of the following
When a person's carrying capacity for the partner's negative affect is low, conflicts will escalate, with negative consequences for the relatoinship
When the carrying capacity for negative affect is low, or becomes low, that partner will be much more likely to engage in thoughts and behaviors that will eventually terminate the relationship by creating a negative "story of us"
Sometimes expressions of negative affect provide information that evokes curiosity and empathy
Expressions of negative affect results in fights and arguments for most couples regardless of "master/disaster" status
Which of the following components of the "sound relationship house" represents the friendships in relationships portion of the theory?
Build love maps, share fondness and admiration, turn toward instead of away
The positive perspective, manage conflict, and Make LIfe Dreams Come True
Build Love maps, Mangage conflict, and Create Shared Meaning
Share fondness and admiration, make life dreams come true, and the Positive Perspective
One of the hallmarks of masters of relationships when when it comes to conflict is which of the following?
They know how to move from gridlock to dialogue on their perpetual problems
They tend to discuss conflict openly with little humor and joking
They spend very little time focusing on conflict topics and spend significant time on common interest topics
They value peace more than mutual understanding
Typical Gottman Couples Therapy follows the following process: 1) Start with dysfunctional conflict if it exists 2) Process past regrettable incidents 3) Ritualize the weekly state of the union meeting 4)work on friendship and intimacy 5) Continue by expressing needs 6) Work on the shared meaning system and 7) Create important rituals of connection
True
False
Which of the following statements is false about negative emotions and meta-emotions?
Managing emotions has become part of our modern culture. It is expected that people should be able to manage or hide emotions they are feeling
When one belieces that emotions can be managed, one tends to dismiss negative emotions and minimize their importance
Most individuals tend of unconsciously seek a partner who manages negative emotions in similar ways they do
Among heterosexuals, mostly what leads to divorce is husbands being emotionally dismissive of negative emotions in their women and women feeling abandoned by this meta emotional attitude
The ATTUNED pattern includes all of the following EXCEPT:
They accept all feelings and wishes as OK
They try to notice small amounts of negative emotions
They have an action orientation
They believe that one's emotions are a personal guide for finding meaning
The three steps of treating a meta-emotion mismatch are:
1) Build a common culture 2) Share fundamental thoughts and dreams and 3) focus on the here and now
Communicate the idea that understanding must proceed action 2) Build a common emotion culture and 3) teach emotion coaching
Share fundamental thoughts and dreams 2) Communicate the idea that understanding must proceed action and 3) empathize with partner's emotions
1) Teach emotion coaching 2) Empathize with partner's emotions and 3)express love daily
Turning towards needs to happen in all of seven emotional command systems in relationships?
True
False
Which of the following is true of "turning away" and "turning against" interactions?
These moments are most often harsh and confrontational
Gay and lesbian couples tend to influence each other less after having more successful initial start up interactions than heterosexual couples
Intimacy and sex-life are only tangentially related to bids for connection
Many of these moments are innocent, mindless, moments that are not mean-spirited
What are the two types of persuasian avoiders?
Persuasion avoiders and negative emotions accepters
Conflict avoiders and positive emotion accepters
Persuasion avoiders and negative emotion dismissers
All of the above
What are two types of stable couples who did not avoid persuasion?
Volatile couples and validating couples
Avoidant couples and validating couples
Volatile couples and avoidant couples
Harmonious couples and avoidant couples
According to Gottman's research on relationship satisfaction, ___% of couples satisfaction "precipitously" drop in the first three years of having a child
25%
33%
50%
66%
In playing with dad, babies were far LESS negative in response to their dad's negativity when their dad was happily married, compared to when he was unhappily married
True
False
Which component is NOT part of emotion coaching?
Parents believe that a child's emotions are important moments for teaching and closeness
Parents help label all the emotions the child is feeling
Parents help solve the problem for their child
Parents empathize with the child's feelings, even if there has been misbehavior by the child.
All of the above
According to Haim Ginott, child psychologist, the most common mistake that parents make is _____ in terms of emotion coaching
Focusing on the child's emotions in the moment before responding with anything else
Rushing in with advice and solutions
Focusing too much on the parent-child relationship and not the behavior of the child
Being too critical and harsh
True or false, in regards to infants forming a connection or bond with the caregiver, attachment security describes an infant, not the relationship
True
False
True or False, according to Gottman's couple typology, volatile couples are stable.
True
False
A client's eyes well with tears as she describes the frustrations she has in trying to reach out to her partner. What could you a therapist do to promote empathic attunement?
Note the discrepancy between tears and spoken frustrations
Notice the tears and ask about her experience
Identify with her pain and frustration through self-disclosure
Focus on a time when she felt less frustrated
The therapist infers that a partner is afraid of the intimacy that his other partner is seeking, noting that he seems curious but proves hesitant when his partner pursues him. The partner withdraws in silence and pulls back from being invovled in the session. How might the therapist respond in monitoring this change in the therapeutic relationship
"If you were to put words to your silence what would they say?"
I wonder if this fits for you, I am not sure if my comment about your fears is really what you experience. What's it likewhen you hear me talk about this fear of intimacy?"
"Many partners that I work with have similar fears"
I wonder if it is safer for you to hold onto your thoughts and feelings than to share them."
Primary Emotions in distressed relationships are often:
Disorienting
Pushed out of awareness
Unconscious
Here and now
Validation and reflection are intended to:
Reduce anxiety and decrease self-protection in the interactions of distressed couples
Help couples thorugh the therapist modeling empathic understanding
Teach couples the reasons certain emotional responses are appropriate
Encourage appropriate dependency of a client on a therapist
Evocative questioning guides the client to the ____ of their experience and _____ the client to explore and reprocess their experience making it more specific and tangible
Unresolved aspects, instructs
Leading edge, invites
Underlying assumptions, coaches
Hidden aspects, teaches
Which of the following are NOT primary tasks of EFT
To reprocess and expand client's key emotional responses
To foster secure emotional bonds between partners
To prevent all occurences of negative cycles, such as blame/defend
To structure and shape new kind of interactions - accessible and responsive interactions
The Three Stages of EFT are:
De-escalation of conflict, the stop of clarifying underlying feelings, and promotion of positive narratives
De-escalation of negative interactions, behavioral contracting, the change event entitled blamer softening
Understand the attachment needs of each partner, change the interactional patterns, and emotional engagement
De-escalation of negative interations, changing/restricting interactional positions, and consolidation/integration
The prime objective of steps 1 and 2 is:
To identify negative interaction cycles
To discover teh attachment style of each partner
To create a therapeutic alliance with each partner
To take a relationship history
Sandy: "We seem to be getting on just fine and then suddenly we 're not. Tamara launches into a tirade. It comes right out of the blue! She ambushes me! Beforewe know where we are, she's telling me she wants a divorce. Me, I'm like a turtle. I withdraw into my shell hwere no one can hurt me..." (a tear trickles down her face) We haven't even hugged in years. Tamara: We aren't getting on fine! You come home every night and get lost on instagram and then you stay out for most of the night. yOu never see me. I don't exist for you. That's why we never hug. I'm too busy sucking in my anger. I suck it up and suck it up and then I can't take it anymore and I blow!" WHich response is NOT an example of empathic attunement to Sandy?
"it all sounds very confusing for you. One minute things are fine, the next, Tamara is threatening divorce."
"So how do you get out of your shell?"
Right! You withdraw into your shell where it's safe.
It seems like it's safe in that shell, but terribly lonely."
With the example above, which response is not an example of empathic attunement to Tamara?
That must be painful, to feel like you don't even exist for him
You're feeling continually so far away from him that hugs are out of the question
Can you talk about your anger with him?
I can understand why you blow now and then, if you're always sucking up your anger.
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