Communication that involves negative words about a partner's personality or character illustrate which type of disconfirming message according to John M. Gottman?

a. Contempt
b. Defensiveness
c. Criticism
d. Stonewalling
e. Heteronormativity

c

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The term "yellow journalism" which became synonymous with sensationalism and excess actually came about as a result of

A) a botched attempt to print sensational headlines in red ink that came out looking yellow. B) an ownership struggle over the rights to publish a comic strip called "The Yellow Kid." C) a racial slur aimed at the Chinese workers who printed most newspapers in the 1890s. D) the yellowish tint of the cheap paper used for newspapers in the 1890s.

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A speaker referring to David Hume, assuming her audience knows that he was an influential philosopher, is an example of which barrier to listening?

A) ?vocabulary B) cultural allusion ? C) ?listening schema D) ?jargon E) ?receiver apprehension

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