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Flashcards by hannah.brown4, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hannah.brown4
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Intimacy | significant emotional closeness experienced in a relationship |
| commitment | A desire to stay in a relationship |
| Interdependence | A state in which each person's behaviors affect everyone else in the relationship |
| Investment | The resources we put into our relationships |
| dialectical tensions | conflicts between two important but opposing needs or desires |
| monogamy | being in only one relationship at a time and avoiding romantic or sexual involvement with to others outside the relationship |
| infidelity | having romantic or sexual interaction with someone outside of one's romantic relationship |
| polygamy | a practice in which one person is married to two or more sposes at once |
| initiating stage | the stage of relationship development when people meet and interact for the first time |
| experimenting stage | the stage of relationship development when individuals have conversations to learn more about each other |
| intensifying stage | the stage of relationship development when individuals move from being aquaintances to being close friends |
| integrating stage | the stage of relationship development when a deep commitment has formed, and there is a strong sense that the relationship has its own identity |
| bonding stage | the stage of relationship development when the partners publicly announce their commitment |
| communication privacy management (CPM) theory | theory that explains how people manage the tension between privacy and disclosure |
| differentiating stage | the stage of relationship dissolution when partners begin to see their differences as undesirable or annoying |
| circumscribing stage | the stage of relationship dissolution characterized by decreased quality and quantity of communication between partners |
| stagnating stage | the stage of relationship dissolution when the relationship stops growing and the partners are barely communicating with each other |
| avoiding stage | the stage of relationship dissolution when partners create physical and emotional distance between themselves |
| terminating stage | the stage of relationship dissolution when the relationship is deemed to be officially over |
| divorce | the legal discontinuatin of a marraige |
| family of origin | the family in which one grows up in |
| family of procreation | the family one starts as an adult (often consisting of one's children and spouse) |
| rituals | repetitive behaviors that have special meaning for a group or relationship |
| communication climate | the emotional tone of a relationship |
| confirming messages | behaviors that indicate how much we value another person |
| disconfirming messages | behaviors that imply a lack of regard for another person |
| defensiveness | excessive concern with guarding oneself against the threat of criticism |
| supportiveness | a person's feeling of assurance that others care about and will protect them |
| non-evaluative feedback | a reply that withholds assessment of what the speaker has said or done |
| evaluative feedback | a reply that offers an assessment of what the speaker has said or done |
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