In Fitzpatrick's model of couple types, which type is characterized by more flexibility with regard to sex roles, greater degree of individual activity and interest, but still share time and communication, do not fear conflict or expressing difference?

When a speaker learns to expertly criticize the speeches of others, it will help the speaker to

a. hone their own skills. b. prejudge the speech quality. c. listen only for facts. d. become emotionally invested in the speaker's message.

When Stefan's mother hands him a rejection letter from the college he had been dreaming of attending for four years, Stefan shrugs and says that he didn't really want to go to that college anyway. He asserts that he had already decided to go to his second-choice school, which had accepted him a week earlier. Stefan is most likely employing a defense mechanism because he views the rejection letter as a

A. face need. B. threat to his self-esteem. C. face-saving act. D. face-threatening act.