The textbook provides four guidelines that can be used to reduce bypassing. Identify the five guidelines and outline a plan for how you can reduce bypassing in your own life

What will be an ideal response?

(1 ) Be person-minded, not word-minded. Think about words and their meanings but also consider the person using the words and the meanings they might give to them. (2 ) Query and paraphrase. Ask questions and paraphrase your message or the meaning you've derived from others' messages,whenever there is potential for misunderstanding. (3 ) Be approachable. Encourage open and freecommunication. (4 ) Be sensitive to contexts. Consider the verbal and situational contexts in which
communication occurs. Plans will vary.

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Barnes, Farrell, and Banerjee found racial similarities and differences in the effects of parental monitoring on adolescent drug/alcohol use. Which of the following was not one of their findings?

a. For both Black and White adolescents, monitoring reduced substance use b. For Black adolescents, increased communication related to increased use; for White adolescents, increased communication related to decreased use c. For Black adolescents, religiosity seemed to provide a protective factor and reduce substance use d. For White adolescents, peer pressure was more correlated with substance use than for black adolescents e. For both Black and White adolescents, parental support was correlated with less substance use

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Members from ________________cultures communicate more freely in virtual teams where interaction do not occur in real time and when anonymous input is possible

a) Individualistic-Collectivistic b) High Power Distance c) Feminine Oriented d) Short-Time Oriented e) High-Context

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