Upcoming Exam thoughts…

For the upcoming exam, you will be reviewing chapters 1-4 of the text primarily; however, your exam may also include materials from the introduction/preface. Further, your instructor may also expect you to demonstrate your ability to tie concepts from the O’Hair and Wiemann text to Gottman’s work.

Skills covered on this exam:

  1. Identify, define, and describe relationship bids, incorporating both verbal and nonverbal bids utilized in multiple relationship contexts
  2. Create multiple bid responses, incorporating three response types, then explain how these varied responses can alter the outcome of the interaction and the dynamic of the relationship (review O’Hair and Wiemann’s stages of relationship integration/disintegration
  3. Articulate your experiences using bids within various relationships
  4. Identify, describe, and organize the emotional command systems outlined by Gottman
  5. Construct explanations that identify how different command systems might change the dynamic within an interaction

1 Comment

Leave a comment