Stable Relationships
Romance and Social Exchange
Uncertainty Reduction
Self-Evaluation
Random
100
What are the languages that should be used to take ownership of our words and include others in our conversations?
What is "I" language and "We" language?
100
Dogmatic messages, superiority messages, indifference messages, and control messages are all what types of communication?
What are the four types of defensive communication?
100
This theory provides an understanding of how people mange private information
What is the Communication Privacy Management Theory
100
When you communicate with others, you present a public self or a ___?
What is face
100
Avoidance, competition, accommodation, and collaboration are all _____.
What are the four conflict styles?
200
Trying to keep relationships in a stable or constant condition corresponds to what concept?
What is relational maintenance?
200
This can be a result of ignoring a problem, avoiding the issue entirely, and pretending it doesn't exist. It can cause repressed feelings which may create problems that did not exist in the first place.
What is cumulative annoyance?
200
Reducing Uncertainty is particularly important in what type of development?
What is Relationship Development
200
If someone communicates positively about you and reflects positive appraisal of our self worth they are
What is an upper?
200
This is another word that refers to openness-- one of the relational maintenance strategies?
What is self-disclosure?
300
When you let others know that you care about their feelings, you are using __________ in your communication.
What is empathy?
300
The theory that suggests that one feels drawn to people they see as offering substantial benefits while also offering few costs.
What is the social exchange theory?
300
What are the 3 basic ways people seek information about another person?
What are Passive strategies, Active Strategies, and Interactive Strategies.
300
If someone communicates negatively about you and reflects negatively on your self worth.
What is a downer?
300
The type of conflict resolution used only in cases where there is respect for the other person and a concern for their desires.
What is collaboration/compromise?
400
What is the main reason why misunderstandings occur in communication?
What is failure to actively listen?
400
Understandable messages, referring to honest, clear, relevant, and informative information, using "We" language to emphasize inclusion, and using "I" language to emphasize responsibility.
What are the three characteristics of cooperative verbal communication?
400
Why does the Communication Privacy Management Theory use the term "private disclosure" instead of "self-disclosure"?
What is self disclosure is just things about us that people know, while private disclosure is something more intimate
400
What are people who communicate solely with the intention of having a negative impact on your self-worth?
What are vultures?
400
Entry stage, in which a person obtains age, economic or social status, and other demographic information about the person he or she is meeting. The personal stage is when a communicator begins to share attitudes, beliefs, values, and more personal data. The exit stage is when communicators decide on future interaction plans.
What are the three developmental stages associated with the Uncertainty Reduction Theory?
500
"I love you" is an example of what type of relational maintenance strategy?
What is assurances?
500
Research done by Lawler and Thye in 1999 stated that these two properties were imperative in the theory of social exchange.
What is "self-interest and interdependence"?
500
Name the two types of Uncertainty?
What is Cognitive uncertainty and Behavioral uncertainty
500
Attributing external forces to explain our own behavior
What is actor-observer effect?
500
This aspect of the social exchange theory highlights how important the balance of benefits exchanged between two partners, and determines whether or not a relationship will take root.
What is equity?
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