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| A social group bound by ties of blood, civil contract, or a commitment to care for and be responsible for one another. |
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| A close and caring relationship between two people that is perceived as mutually satisfying and beneficial. |
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| are characterized by love and intimacy |
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| love of beauty and sexuality |
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| game-playing love, entertainment, excitement |
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| peaceful love that lacks passion and excitement |
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| practical and traditional love |
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| love that has intense highs and lows |
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| compassionate and selfless love |
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| The closeness and understanding in a relationship |
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| Hyperpersonal Communication |
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| Online relationships do not allow for nonverbal cues, so online communicators may have exaggerated perceptions of each other, |
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| three important functions of relationships |
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1. Companionship
2. Stimulation
3. Goal achievement |
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| Relationships meets our need for inclusion, to involve others in our lives and be involved in the lives of others |
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| Relationships fulfill our innate need for intellectual, emotional, and physical connection |
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| We enter relationships to achieve particular goals, such a alleviating loneliness or expanding our social network for career opportunities. |
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| Interpersonal attraction is an important part of relationships formation and is influenced by three criteria |
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1. Proximity or nearness: We must be able to interact in some way with someone in order to form a relationship.
2. Physical attraction plays an important role in attracting others in the early stages of a relationship.
3. We tend to begin and develop relationships with others who are similar to us |
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| We must be able to interact in some way with someone in order to form a relationship. |
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| The attraction-similarity hypothesis |
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| The more we are attracted to someone, the more we will perceive that we are similar to that person |
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| We seek relationships with others who are comparably attractive. |
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| The genetic-similarity hypothesis |
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| People who are from the same ethnic group are more similar; therefore, we tend to form relationships with people from our own ethnic group |
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| Relationships begin, develop, grow, and deteriorate based on the ratio of perceived ________ __ ________for each relational partner |
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| Benefits from the relationship (such as companionship). |
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| Aspects of the relationship that are draining or upsetting (such as financial costs or time costs). |
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| Uncertainty reduction theory |
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| When two people meet, their main focus is to decrease the uncertainty that exists between them. |
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| Allow us to observe people as they communicate with others |
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| Such as asking direct questions, are a more upfront way of gathering information about someone |
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| Such as bringing up a general topic to test the waters, are useful when issues are too sensitive to bring into the open |
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| Describe the interplay of competing tensions or goals in relationships |
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| Autonomy versus connection |
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| Is the struggle between wanting independence and also wanting to be dependent on another person. |
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| Openness versus closedness |
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| Is the competing desire to share information while also maintaining privacy. |
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| Predictability versus novelty |
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| Is the simultaneous need for stability and new and exciting adventures |
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| Social penetration theory |
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| Explains how individuals’ relationships develop by sharing information that is increasingly more private (like peeling off the layers of an onion |
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| Communication privacy management theory |
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| Describes how people manage information in terms of how it is disclosed and protected. |
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| Strategic topic avoidance |
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| Used to maneuver conversations away from undesirable or uncomfortable topics. |
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Most relationships tend to go through a series of predictable stages.
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A. Initiating stage
B. Exploratory stage
C. Intensification stage
D. Stable stage
E. Declining stage
F. Relationship repair
G. Termination stage
H. Reconciliation stage |
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| Making initial contact with another person |
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| Seeking superficial information in order to learn more about the other person |
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| Becoming more intimate and engaging in more personal self-disclosures with a relational partner |
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Feeling secure and acknowledging that the relationship is no longer volatile or temporary
1. Integrating
2. Bonding |
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| Becoming one with the partner |
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| Sharing the importance of the relationship with the world (marriage ceremony, civil union, or the like) |
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The unraveling of the relationship, which may have various causes
1. Uncertainty events
2. Interference
3. Unmet expectations |
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| Events or behaviors that create uncertainty in a relationship |
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| Obstacles that occur in the relationship that impede its growth |
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| Ideas of what should happen in a relationship that have not come to pass |
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| Attempts by individuals in a declining relationship to save their connection through various repair tactics (such as focusing on the positive aspects of the relationship) |
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The end of the relationship, which can be characterized as passing away or sudden death
1. Passing away
2. Sudden death |
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| The gradual fading of the relationship |
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| The sudden and often unexpected termination of the relationship |
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| Rekindling of a terminated relationship |
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