Your Roommate Says, "It's Your Turn to Take Out the Trash

question 28

Multiple Choice

Your roommate says, "It's your turn to take out the trash" in a demanding tone of voice.If you want to find out the relational dimension of the message, you should

• A)remind your roommate nicely that you took the trash out last night.
• B)use perception checking to see if your roommate is upset with you.
• C)negotiate other ways of dealing with the trash problem.
• D)ask your roommate's friends to explain the real problem.
• E)point out how defensive your roommate sounds.

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Pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.

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