Identify several strategies for seeking compliance in an interpersonal relationship. Choose three and describe three situations in which these would be effective

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Strategies would include politely making requests, suggesting alternatives, summarizing areas of agreement, thanking the other person, making a promise, acknowledging similarities and differences, assuring the other person that it will all be ok in the end. More assertive methods might include accusing, arguing, blaming, challenging, complaining, criticizing, demanding, pleading, reprimanding, or issuing a warning.

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Experimental research studies the effects of media in carefully controlled situations that manipulate media exposure and content

a. True b. False

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Usually ask readers to indicate their level of agreement or disagreement with a large number of attitudinal statements

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The tendency to overestimate the internal causes and underestimate the external causes of others' undesirable behaviors is part of:

A) ?a prototype. B) ?the fundamental attribution error. C) ?a personal construct. D) ?a stereotype. E) ?the self-serving bias.

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