Critical listening is based on this idea: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Michelle is very caught up in material objects. She develops her own self-concept primarily by figuring out "what she has" and "what she doesn't have." This focus on materialism is an example of a(n)

A) belief. B) value. C) influence. D) attitude. E) perception.

The contact hypothesis is optimal under which of the following conditions?

a. The two groups in contact are not of equal status within the contact situation. b. The contact includes impersonal and brief communication. c. The contact requires cooperative interdependence between groups. d. The two groups in contact agree to honor the current social hierarchies between the groups.