______ is the process that occurs when people perceive that they have incompatible goals or that someone is interfering in their ability to achieve their objectives.
What is Conflict
100
_______ is a feeling of affection and respect that we typically have for our friends.
What is Liking
100
A _______ family is a group of people who lack blood and legal kinship but who nevertheless consider themselves "family".
What is Voluntary Kin Family
100
Friendships that focus primarily on sharing time and activities together are known as ________.
What are Communal Friendships
100
_______ is a protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship. (Chapter 10)
What is Jealousy
200
_______ includes material things such as money, property, and food.
What is Resource Currency
200
________ proposes that you'll feel drawn to those you see as offering substantial benefits.
What is Social Exchange Theory
200
________ are narrative accounts shared repeatedly within a family that retell historical events and are meant to bond the family together.
What are Family Stories
200
______ are general principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within friendship relationships.
What are Friendship Rules
200
___________ are a series of unresolved disputes; all having to do with the same issue. (Chapter 9)
What are Serial Arguments
300
During ______ both parties change their goals to make them compatible.
What is Compromise
300
_________ is a state of intense emotional and physical longing for union with another.
What is Passionate Love
300
Through _________ loyalty conflicts arise when a coalition is formed, uniting one family members with another against a third gamily member.
What is Triangulation
300
__________ are the aspects of your public self that you deem the most important in defining who you are.
What are Valued Social Identities
300
_______ consist of two unmarried, romantically involved adults living together in a household, with our without children.
What are Cohabiting Couples
400
People agreeing to change the basic rules of understanding that govern their relationship to prevent further conflict.
What is Structural Improvement
400
When we're involved in intimate relationships, we often experience competing impulses, or tensions, between ourselves and our feeling towards others, known as _______.
What are Relational Dialectics
400
______ is considered to be the most power maintenance tactic for families.
What is Positivity
400
What are the two maintenance strategies for friendships that are mentioned in your book?
What are Sharing Activities and Self-Disclosure
400
If one or both of your respond to problematic differences by ignoring them and spending less time talking, your enter the _______ stage. (Chapter 10)
What is Circumscribing
500
Arguments in which one partner in a relationship demands that his or her goals be met, and the other partner responds by withdrawing from the encounter.
What is Demand-Withdraw Pattern
500
______ refers to using communication and supportive behaviors to sustain a desired relationship status and level of satisfaction.
What is Relational Maintenance
500
According to ________ individuals create information boundaries by carefully choosing the kind of private information they revel and the people with whom they share it.
What is Communication Privacy Management Theory
500
What are the two friendship challenges mentioned in your textbook?