1. Tannen believes that, more than anything else, women seek
human connection.
2. Tannen believes that, more than anything else, men seek
status.
3. Tannen maintains that men use talk
a) as a weapon.
4. Women listening to a story or explanation tend to
offer head nods.
5. Women's behavior when interrupting another person to add a word of agreement or show support is called
cooperative overlap.
6. Women typically ask questions to
establish a connection with another person.
7. According to Tannen, the first step in overcoming destructive responses and miscommunication between men and women is to
a) understand each other's styles and the motives behind them.
8. The “aha factor” refers to
situations in which a theory is reaffirmed by one's personal experience.
9. Julia Wood and Christopher Inman observe that
the prevailing ideology of intimacy discounts the ways that men draw close to each other.
10. Tannen's work on genderlects styles has been criticized because
All of the above.
11. Tannen claims that conversations between men and women reflect men's conscious efforts to dominate women.
False
12. Tannen believes that male-female conversation is inherently cross-cultural communication.
True
13. Tannen found that although two girls could sit comfortably face-to-face and carry on a serious conversation about people they knew, when two boys were asked to do the same, they were restless, never looked at each other, and could not complete the task.
True
14. Tannen believes that, despite popular mythology, both men and women are primarily interested in human connection.
False
15. Whereas women value report talk, men emphasize rapport talk.
