When Gottman's Team Videotaped Married Couples Resolving Conflict, They Identified

question 57

Multiple Choice

When Gottman's team videotaped married couples resolving conflict, they identified all of the following patterns as predictors of marital dissatisfaction and separation EXCEPT:

• A) facial expressions of disgust or fear.
• B) defensiveness.
• C) verbal expressions of anger.
• D) verbal expressions of contempt.

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Definitions:

Split-Brain Patients

Individuals who have had the corpus callosum, the connective bridge between the brain's two hemispheres, severed, often as a treatment for severe epilepsy, leading to unique insights into brain function.

Minds

The element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.

Body

A term referring to the physical structure of a person or an organism, encompassing all its biological systems and parts.

Hemisphere

one half of the spherical brain, either the right or left, each responsible for different functions and cognitive processes.