When using perception checking to evaluate ambiguous behavior, the benefit to offering a couple of different ways you could interpret behavior is it:
a. increases your partner's defensiveness.
b. decreases the likelihood of reaching the truth.
c. conveys concern to your partner as well as acknowledging there could be a simple, innocent explanation for the behavior.
d. increases the likelihood of confrontation.
c
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a. transmitter. b. medium. c. source. d. spokesperson.
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a. ?selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors b. ?phenothiazines c. ?amphetamines d. ?catecholamine reuptake inhibitors
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A) transience. B) bias. C) suggestibility. D) misattribution.