Exam 10: Power and Influence

Because we fear the punishment another can inflict, threats made can be powerful motivators in a relationship.

Explain the term "Machiavellianism" and explain what low scores and high scores mean on that "scale."

Please list a few benefits of using the Internet.

Once we identify how to best influence one another, our ____________ ____________ may improve markedly.

An indication of where a culture rests on the power-distance scale is measured by a _______________ _________________ _________________.

Once we share a culture, we share similar meanings.

Few relationships imply some degree of reward power.

List at least three forces that influence our attitudes.

_______ of students reported being harassed online.

Distinguish between attitudes and beliefs.

The more fulfilling we find a relationship, the more we perceive it to have reward power.

Heider asserts that we feel comfortable when people we feel positively toward hold the same attitudes we do, and when people we feel negatively toward hold different ones. This is part of what theory?

Milgram's experiment showed that human beings have the capacity to act destructively without being coerced.

Forms of sexual harassment include all of the following except:

Which group is considered "in power" in media-men or women?

Power is relational.