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| _____is the process that occurs when people perceive that they have incompatible goals or that someone is interfering in their ability to achieve their objectives. |
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| _____is a feeling of affection and respect that we typically have for our friends. |
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| _____is vastly deeper and more intense emotional experience and consists of three components: intimacy, caring, and attachment. |
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| _____is a state of intense emotional and physical longing for union with another. |
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| ______is an intense form of liking defined by emotional investment and deeply intertwined lives. |
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| A_____is a chosen interpersonal involvement forged through communication in which the participants perceive the bond as romantic. |
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| When we are involved in relationships, we often experience competing impulses, or tensions, between our selves and our feelings toward others, known as _____. |
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| In general, you'll feel more attracted to those with whom you have frequent contact and less attracted to those with whom you interact rarely, a phenomenon known as the _______. |
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| We view beautiful people as competent communicators, intelligent, and well-adjusted, a phenomenon known as the ______. |
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| Scientific evidence suggests that we are attracted to those we perceive as similar to us are less likely to provoke uncertainty. |
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| birds of a feather effect |
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| A fourth determinant of romantic attraction is one of the most obvious and often overlooked: whether the person we're attracted to makes it clear, through communication and other actions, that the attraction is mutual, known as ______. |
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| _____proposes that you'll feel drawn to those you see as offering substnatial benefits (things you like and want) with few associated costs (things demanded of you in return). |
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| Once you've experienced attraction because of perceived rewards, the balance of benefits and costs exchanged by you and the other person, known as _____, determines whether a relationship will take root. |
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| During the ______, you size up a person you've just met or noticed. |
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| Once you've initiated an encounter with someone else, you enter the _____stage, during which you exchange demographic information. |
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| During the _____stage, you and your partner begin to reveal previously witheld information, such as secrets about your past or important life dreams and goals. |
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| During the _____stage, you and your partners personalities seeem to become one. |
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| The ultimate stage of coming together is _____, a public ritual announces to the world you and your partner have amde a commitment to one another. |
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| But during the first stage of coming apart, ______the beliefs, attitutdes, and values that distinguish you from your partner come to dominate your thoughts and communication. |
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| IF one or both of you respond to problematic differences by ignoring them and spending less time talking, you enter the ______stage. |
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| When circumscribing becomes so severe that almost no safe conversational topics remain, communication slows to a standstill, and your relationship enters the _____stage. |
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| During the _____stage, one or both of you decide that you no longer can be around each other, and you begin distancing yourself physically. |
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| During the _____stage, couples might discuss the past, present, and future of the relationship. |
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| ______refers to using communcation and supportive behaviors to sustain a desired relationship status and level of satisfaction. |
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| _____includes communicating in a cheerful and optimistic fashion, doing unsolicited favors, and giving unexpected gifts. |
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| The second most powerful maintenance tactic in boosting relationship satisfaction is ______:messages that emphasize how much a partner menas to you, how important the relationship is , and then describe a secure future together. |
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| The most frequently practiced form of maintenance is _____. This involves taking mutual responsibilty for chores and negotiating an equitable division of labor. |
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| Part of what builds a strong sense of intimacy between romantic partners is the feeling that lovers _____us for who we really are, fully and completely, and forgive us our flaws. _____involves communicating this affirmation and support. |
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| An essential part of maintaining intimacy is creating a climate of security and trust within your relationship. This allows both partenrs to feel that they can disclose fears and feelings without repercussion. To foster _____, each person must behave in ways that are predictable, trustworthy, and ethical. |
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| Romantic maintenance includes occasionally sitting down and discussing the status of yoru relationship, how you each feel about it, and wehere you both see it going. ______allow you to gauge how invested you each are and whether you agree on future plans and goals. |
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| Romances are more likely to survive if important members of the couples' ______approve of the relationship. |
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| ______is defined as an act that goes against expectations of a romantic relationship and, as a result, causes pain to a partner. |
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| A second problem for romantic relationships is _____, a protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship. |
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| Jealousy can intensify even further if site users engage in what communication scholar Kelly Morrison calls ______. Through ______, a person deliberately uses messages, photos, and posts to try and "____" him or herself between partenrs in romantic couple because he or she is interested in one of the partenrs. |
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| ______is the biolation of one's independence and privacy by a person who desires an intimate relationship. |
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| ______is a network of people who share their lives over long periods of time and are bound by marriage, blood, or commitment; who co share a significant history and anticpated future of functioning in a family relationship. |
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| 60 years ago, the _____--a wife, husband, and their biological or adopted children--was the most common family type in north america. |
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| When relatives such as aunts, uncles, parents, children, and grandparents live together in a common household, the result is an ______. |
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| Approximately half of marriages in the United States and Canada are remarriages for one or both partners. This often creates a _____in which at least one of the adults has a child or children from a previous relationship. |
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| Some couples live together prior to or instead of marriage. These ______consist of two unmarreid, romantically invovled adutls living together in a household, with or without children. |
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| In a ______, only one adult resides in the household, possessing sole responsibility as caregiver for the children. |
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| ______are narrative accounts shared repeatedly within a family that retell historical events and are meant to bond the family together. |
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| _____is the degree to which family members are encouraged to participate in unrestrained interaction about a wide array of topics. |
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| ______is the degree to which families believe that communication should emphasize similarity or diversity in attitudes, beliefs, and values |
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| Families high in both conversation and conformity are ______. in such families, members are encouraged to openly share their views with one another as well as debate these beliefs. |
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| Families high in conversation but low in conformity are _______. They communicate in open and unconstrained ways, discussing a broad range of topics and exploring them in depth. |
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| _____are low on conversation and high on conformity. Communication in these families functions to maintain obedience and enforce family norms, and little value is placed on the exchange of ideas or the development of communication skills. |
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| Families low in both conversation and conformity are ______. Few emotional bonds exist between their members, resulting in low levels of caring, conern, and support expressed within the family. |
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| According to _________, individuals create informational boundaries by carefully choosing the kind of private information they reveal and the people with whom they share it. |
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| communcation privacy managment theory |
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| Within families, boundaries are defined by ______: the conditions governing what family members can talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who should have access to family-relevant information. |
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| The most frequent and perplexing challenge is _______:loyalty conflicts that arise when a coalition is formed, uniting one family member with another against a third person |
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| Some parents engage in ______: where one or both parents allocate an unfair amount of valuable resources to one child over others. |
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| _____is a voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking. |
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| Friendships that focus primarily on sharing time and activities together as _____ |
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| Friendships in which the parties focus primarily on helping each other achieve practical goals are known as ______. |
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| The most important factor that distinguishes best friends is unqualified provison of _____: behaving in ways that convey understanding, acceptance, and support for a friend's valued social identities. |
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| _____are the aspects of your public self that you deem the most important in defining who you are--for example, musician, athelte, poet, dancer, teacher, mother, and so on. |
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| In _____relationships, the participants enage in sexual activity, but not with the purpose of transforming the relationship into romantic attachment. |
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| Transgressions as _____include: unfaithfulness, disloyalty, and/or dishonesty. |
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| _____is the process of losing affection of loyalty for someone with whom you had a close/loving relationship. |
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| What are ther five steps of coming apart? |
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| differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating |
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| Your birth story and how your parents met are examples of _____. |
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| ______are beliefs that guide interpersonal communication between family members. |
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| family communication patterns |
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| _____are two dimensions that underlie the communication between family members. |
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| family communication patterns theory |
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| _______is the degree of fluidity with which family members converse and the breadth of topics they discuss. |
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| _____is the degree to which families use communication. |
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| ______is when individuals create boundaries by carefully choosing priavte information they reveal and the peole with whom they share it |
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| communication privacy managment theory |
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| _____are conditions governing what family members can talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who should have access to family-relevant information. |
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| T/F Conflicts always result from miscommunication or unclear communication. |
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| Conflicts can be resolved with good communication skills. T/F |
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| _____is the degree to which you are confident, your goals show and will be met. |
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| ______is the degree to which your well being indebted to the well being of others |
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| Most conflict occurs between people in close relationships, is guaranteed to be tense and emotionally draining, and arises from one of three issues: ______,______, or_____. |
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| irritating partner behaviors, disagreements regarding relationship rules, personality clashes |
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| ____is the ability to influence and control other people and events. |
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| What are the five types of power currencies? |
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| resource currency, expertise currency, social network currency, personal currency, intimacy currency |
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| a resource that other people value |
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| The _______consists of a network of friends, family, and acquaintances with substantial influence. |
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| What are the five ways to handle conflict? |
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| avoidance, accomodation, competition, reactivity, and collaboration |
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| _____occurs when one person abandons her or his own goals and acquieses to the desires of the other person. |
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| _____means confronting someone and pursuing one's own goals at the expense of the other person's goals |
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| ______refers to not pursuing any conflict-related goals at all, but instead communicating in an emotionally explosive and negative fashion |
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| _____is a mutual problem solving approach that does not treat conflict as something to avoid, accomodate or compete over |
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| A _____pattern occurs in close relationships when a woman pursues a conflict by demanding that her goals be met and a man responds by withdrawing. |
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| What are the four factors that predict the survival of romantic relationships? |
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| the degree to which partners think of themselves as "in love", equity or whether the balance is equal for both partners, similarity, network support |
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| What are the two types of infidelity? |
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| What are two dynamics of long distance relationships? |
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| distance can actually make the relationship more satisfying because couples focus on the positive; reunions may cause couples to break up when they suddenly see the other's negative qualities close up |
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| What are the three types of relational dialectics that can cause tensions in family relationships? |
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| autonomy/connection, openness/protection, family/privacy rules |
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| What is the autonomy/connection struggle? |
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| the struggle between feeling connected to the family and wanting a separate identity |
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| What is the openness/protection struggle? |
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| wanting to share personal information as well as protect ourselves from the possible negative consequences of sharing |
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| The ______poses that the emotions, effect, and mood from the parental relationship "spill over" into the broader family, disrupting children's sense of emotional security. |
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| _____friendships enable people to share their life events and activities with others. _____friendships enable people to accomplish personal and professional goals. |
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