Guidelines for Effective Communication in Families
Vocabulary and Terms
100
What is something that adds diversity to family life? (there is more than one answer)
What is sexual orientation, children, working status, married v unmarried?
100
In these relationships, partners typically deal with superficial matters. This has been the norm since they married.
What is Passive-congenial marriage?
100
Couples when full time work is no longer a part of life.
What is Stage 7: Retirement?
100
Guideline that deals with fairness based on the perception that both people invest equally in a relationship and benefit similarly from their investments.
What is "Maintain Equity in Family Relationships"?
100
Fairness based on the perception that both partners should invest roughly equally in a relationship and benefit similarly from their investments.
What is Equity?
200
How has the idea of marriage changed within the US over time?
What is children, work, sexual orientation, online dating?
200
In this relationship, the couple is very close emotionally and wants to be together physically as much as possible.
What is Vital marriage?
200
During this phase, a couple settles into marriage or a cohabiting relationship and works out expectations, interaction patterns, and daily routines for their shared life.
What is Stage 1: Establishing a Family?
200
Guideline that deals with overlooking minor irritations and frustrations that are inevitable in living with others.
What is "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"?
200
The theory that people apply economic principles to evaluate their relationships in terms of costs and benefits, and that people are satisfied only in relationships in which the benefits outweigh the costs.
What is Social Exchange Theory?
300
In today’s culture, what percentage of families say that raising a child is very important to the family?
What is 41% of families?
300
In this marital type, partners give each other plenty of room and do not share the least emotionally.
What is Separates?
300
Often, this stage involves some tension between parents and children. This stage includes families with adolescents who are developing their own interests, activities, and social circles.
What is Stage 4: Encouraging Independence?
300
Guideline that deals with making both large and small decisions that promote a relationship such as making the decision to commit to one person for the rest of your life.
What is "Make Daily Choices That Enhance Intimacy"?
300
Work that a person, usually a woman, does after coming home from working in the paid labor force outside the home, such as fixing meals, doing housework, shopping, and caring for children.
What is Second Shift?
400
What is a type of family?
Any example of a family
400
In these relationships, partners are incompatible and often tied to each other for practical reasons.
What is Conflict-Habituated marriage?
400
This stage involves the transition to parenthood and changing the primary focus of conversation to the children. This stage involves families with infants and/or preschoolers.
What is Stage 2: Enlarging a Family?
400
Guideline that deals with being polite and kind when communicating with family members.
What is "Show Respect and Consideration"?
400
The responsibility for remembering, planning, and coordinating domestic work and child care. In general, women assume psychological responsibility for child care and housework even though both partners may share the actual tasks.
What is Psychological Responsibility?
500
In ancient Greece, what was the main purpose of marriage?
What is to create children?
500
This is the most common form of a mixed marriage.
What is Separate-Traditional Couple?
500
This period, often called the “empty nest,” can be a time of lower satisfaction between partners if the couple is out of practice in engaging each other outside of their roles of parents.
What is Stage 6: Postlaunching of Children?
500
The name for the four dynamics to avoid in family relationships (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling).
What is "Four Horsemen of the Apocalpse"
500
How partners talk and behave toward each other, according to Notarius.