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Human Development chap. 1-4
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Undergraduate 1
09/15/2011

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Cohesion
Definition
Emotional Bonding that a family expirences through growing up
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Family Image
Definition
The way a member of the family views their family (i.e. basketball team)
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Family Themes
Definition
the understanding of feelings, motives, fantasies, and same concersn.
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Flexiability
Definition
how family sytems manage stability and change
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Intergenerational Transmission
Definition
plots family relationships and records social interaction
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Metacommunication
Definition
When a person in a couple says something like "we dont talk about this, when this happens"
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Primary Functions
Definition
How the family interacts with one another
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Realational Dialects
Definition
both partners expeirencing the same connection in relationships
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Secondary Function
Definition
things that are more inportant to the indivudaul in the family then the family as a whole
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Transactional Communicatio Perspective
Definition
Combonatiion of the individuals view in the family and the family view
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Boundary Rule Formation
Definition
refers to the factors that regulate the flow of information between others
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Dialect Tensions
Definition
how close can one get withoout interfering with others
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Equifinality
Definition
A final state that different paths have converged on.
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Family System
Definition
A families interaction patterns
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Interactional Complexity
Definition
How a family interactional effect their communication
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Interdependence
Definition
one denpendence on another family memeber to help their own functioning
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Narritive Coherence
Definition
consistency; all parts of the story are present and fit together
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Narritive Fidelity
Definition
Appear truthful or reliable
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Punctuation
Definition
point in a sequence where it is identified as things started here
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Social Contrucstionism
Definition
one person makes sense by making thier own world and how it works
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Symbolic interaction
Definition
emphisizes self, meanings, and construction of self through interaction
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Accounts
Definition
a retelling of what was expeirenced
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All-Channel Network
Definition
Communication between all family memebers
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 Chain Network
Definition
talk in a sort of line of command or power or a (chain)
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Communication Networks
Definition
How a family chooses to communicate with each other
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Communicaion Rules
Definition
a Family understanding on how they communicate and and what is appropriate to talk about
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Dangerous Secrets
Definition
put the "owners' o0f the secret in imediate jeoperdy it may be physical or sexual
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Toxic Secrets
Definition
Poison family reltionships
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Joint Storytelling
Definition
the Storytelling shared btewwn multiple family members
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Wheel Network
Definition
one family meber serves as a "wheel" or a clearinghouse to tell the re4st of the family
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Y Network
Definition
a key person transfers information to a parent
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Constitutive Approach
Definition
how a family uses communication to define itself
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Blended Family
Definition
Two adults and children from past relationships ( i.e. Brady Bunch)
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Committed Partners
Definition
May include married couples who remain childless or infertile and still call themselves a famly
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Relationship Flourishing
Definition
focus on well Functioning families
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Primary Parent Systems
Definition
Single parent or more domminant parent
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Open Adoption
Definition
Interaction between biological and adoption parents
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Legitimizing
Definition
Making a legitimcy of something that is not officail by law
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Internal Boundry Managment
Definition
The use of communicatin to with stand nuclear family
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Family-of-Orgin
Definition
A family in which an indivdual was raised
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Family
Definition
A core group of individuals that love eachother
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External Boundry Management
Definition
Using Communication to express conflict to outsiders
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Dicourse- Dependent Family
Definition
The amount of family memeber relies on communication for internal and external boundries.
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