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Fight or Flight
Lie to Me
Grab Bag
100
This theory claims that humans have a fundamental inclination to bond with others.
What is the need to belong theory?
100
This involves messages sent from people at higher levels within an organization to those beneath them (from superiors to subordinates).
What is downward communication?
100
A relationship in which one person has more power than the other.
What is a complementary relationship.
100
Leaving out important details in order to create a false impression.
What is omission?
100
Any force that draws people together to form a relationship.
What is interpersonal attraction?
200
A state in which each person’s behaviors affect everyone else in the relationship.
What is interdependence?
200
The family one starts as an adult.
What is a family of procreation?
200
A behavior involving the expression of conflict through negative behaviors that ignore the underlying disagreement.
What is indirect conflict?
200
Lies for which the penalties for getting caught are severe.
What are high-stakes lies?
200
Repetitive behaviors that have special meaning within families.
What are family rituals?
300
Conflicts between two important but opposing needs or desires.
What are dialectical tensions?
300
The social and emotional functions individuals serve in the family system.
What are family roles?
300
This conflict management strategy involves both parties giving up something they want so that both can receive something else they want.
What is compromising?
300
Communicating false information as though it were true; outright lies.
What is falsification?
300
Forms of deception that involve fabricating or exaggerating facts for the purpose of misleading others.
What are acts of simulation?
400
A person’s assessment of how good or bad his or her current relationship is, compared with other options.
What is the comparison level for alternatives?
400
This type of couple engages in disagreement openly, but in a way that is competitive rather than cooperative.
What are volatile couples?
400
The type of power that derives from the ability to punish.
What is coercive power?
400
A concept referring to the tendency to believe what others tell us.
What is the truth bias?
400
This happens when we engage in conflict about the conflict itself.
What is metaconflict?
500
In this stage of relationship dissolution, the relationship stops growing and we feel as if we’re just going through the motions.
What is the stagnating stage?
500
Our cognitive models for what marriage is and should be.
What are marital schemata?
500
The ability to manipulate, influence, or control other people or events.
What is power?
500
This concept explains why we’re less successful at lying when we have a strong motivation to succeed.
What is the motivation impairment effect?
500
A pattern of withdrawing from conflict, refusing to deal with the issue at hand.
What is stonewalling?
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