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1. Tannen believes that, more than anything else, women seek
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C. human connection.
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2. Tannen believes that, more than anything else, men seek
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D. status.
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3. Tannen maintains that men use talk
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A. as a weapon.
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4. Women listening to a story or explanation tend to
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B. offer head nods.
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5. Women’s behavior when interrupting another person to add a word of agreement or show support is called
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C. cooperative overlap.
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6. Women typically ask questions to
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B. establish a connection with another person.
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7. According to Tannen, the first step in overcoming destructive responses and miscommunication between men and women is to
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A. understand each other’s styles and the motives behind them.
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8. The “aha factor” refers to
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C. situations in which a theory is reaffirmed by one’s personal experience.
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9. Julia Wood and Christopher Inman observe that
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C. the prevailing ideology of intimacy discounts the ways that men draw close to each other.
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10. Tannen’s work on genderlects styles has been criticized because
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D. all of the above.
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Tannen claims that conversations between men and women reflect men’s conscious efforts to dominate women.
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Tannen believes that male-female conversation is inherently cross-cultural communication.
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Tannen found that although two girls could sit comfortably face-to-face and carry on a serious conversation about people they knew, when two boys were asked to do the same, they were restless, never looked at each other, and could not complete the task.
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Tannen believes that, despite popular mythology, both men and women are primarily interested in human connection.
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Whereas women value report talk, men emphasize rapport talk.
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Tannen’s research indicates that—despite the prevailing mythology—women talk less than men do in private conversations.
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Women tell more stories and jokes than do men.
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Tannen maintains that men usually are more comfortable with conflict.
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According to Tannen, when women share problems with men they are looking for understanding, not advice.
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Tag questions serve to soften the sting of potential disagreements that might drive people apart.
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