Relationships
Friendship
Family, Marriage, and Siblings
Conflict and Dark Side
Mediated Communication
Workplace
Power Bases
Love Styles
100

This term describes a relationship that is close but free of sexual desire.

What is Platonic?

100

This friendship stage exists when people interact only within their roles, like classmates or coworkers.


What is role-delimited interaction?
100

This marriage-space concept means spouses tend to see belongings as “ours” rather than “mine” and “yours.”


What is Undifferentiated space?

100

A disagreement about a specific topic or issue is called this. 


What is substantive disagreement?

100

This type of mediated communication happens when sender and receiver are engaged at the same time.


What is synchronous communication?

100

This term means being accountable for how you feel, think, and behave.


What is personal responsibility?

100

This power base changes thoughts, feelings, or behavior through information.


What is informational power?

100

This love style grows slowly out of friendship.


What is storge?

200

This stage of the relationship is marked by old routines and little enthusiasm.


What is stagnating?

200

This friendship stage refers to what remains after the friendship ends.


What is post-friendship?

200

This marriage style values looking composed and keeping family secrets private.


What is conventional? 

200

This secret test involves directly sharing one’s feelings or commitment and hoping the other person reciprocates.


What is the directness test?

200

This deceptive online behavior involves fabricating an identity to lure someone into an emotional or romantic relationship.


What is catfishing?

200

In Chaleff’s model, this follower does what they think is best for the organization, not necessarily what they were told to do.


What is individualist?

200

These twin power bases rely on punishment and reward.


What are coercive and reward power?

200

This love style treats love like a game and may tolerate deceit.


What is ludic?

300

This type of attraction is based on finding someone aesthetically pleasing.


What is physical attraction?

300

This friendship stage is where the relationship works smoothly and outside friends no longer feel threatening.


What is stabilized friendship?

300

This sibling-maintenance behavior involves jokes, playful teasing, and shared laughter.


What is humor?

300

“If you go to that party, I’m done with this relationship” is this type of hurtful message.


What is a threat?

300

When technology nudges, persuades, or incentivizes people to interact face-to-face, it is serving this function.


What is encouraging?

300

This coworker-disengagement strategy makes the friendship so costly that the other person may stop maintaining it.


What is cost escalation?

300

This power base works because someone is seen as having a right to influence due to role or authority.


What is legitimate power?

300

This love style is selfless, giving, and other-centered.


What is agape?
400

This type of attraction is based on finding someone fun, interesting, or enjoyable to be around.


What is social attraction?

400

This friendship stage is when norms develop, trust builds, and other people begin to see the pair as friends.


What is nascent friendship?

400

This sibling-maintenance behavior involves expressing appreciation, validation, and affirmation.


What is confirmation?

400

“Nice job, genius,” said sarcastically after a mistake, is this type of hurtful message.


What is a joke?

400

When technology tells people about nearby social opportunities they could join, it is serving this function.


What is inviting?

400

This problematic coworker pushes others into doing non-work tasks and then may misrepresent them to higher-ups.


What is pushy playboy?

400

This power base works because someone is seen as knowledgeable or highly skilled.


What is expert power?

400

This love style is practical and logical.


What is pragma?

500

This type of attraction is based on someone’s skills or knowledge helping you accomplish a goal.


What is task related attraction?

500

When one friend is tired of always being the one to reach out first, the friendship may be experiencing this problem.


What is the initiation void?

500

This sibling-maintenance behavior involves offering emotional or practical help.


What is social support?

500

Crying, conceding, and apologizing are signs of this response to hurtful messages.


What is an acquiescent response?

500

When technology simply makes collocated interaction possible, it is serving this function.

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When technology makes collocated interaction easier or smoother, it is serving this function.


What is enabling and facilitating?

500

These are the three types of coworker relationships.

What are information peer, collegial peer, and special peer?

500

This power base works because someone wants to be associated with the influencer.


What is referent power?

500

This love style is obsessive, jealous, and needs constant reassurance.


What is mania?

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