Max: You Should Have Been There

question 2

Multiple Choice

Max: You should have been there. Lyra agreed to go to the formal with me. Jamie: I heard. I also heard she only agreed to make the guy she actually likes jealous. Jamie's comment is an example of _____.

• A) confirming language/communication.
• B) disconfirming language/communication.
• C) an "I" statement.
• D) a "You" statement.

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Definitions:

Abundance

The great or plentiful amount of something in a particular environment, often used in ecology to describe the number of individuals of a particular species within a given area.

Organismic Model

Cooperative view of community, described by Clements, in which a community goes through certain stages of development (succession), like the embryonic stages of an organism, and eventually reaches an adult state (climax community).

Individualistic Model

Independent view of community, described by Gleason, in which biological interactions are less important in the production of communities than are environmental gradients (such as climate and soil) or even chance. Compare with organismic model.

Interdependent

A relationship in which two or more entities rely on each other for survival or for the completion of processes.