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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