Models of Relational Dynamics
Communicating About Relationships
Definitions
Why We Form Relationships
Characteristics of Relationships
100
In this stage, no growth occurs.
What is Stagnating?
100
The mumber of variety and content in messages
What is Infinate?
100
When you have the ability to influence each other.
What is Control?
100
The term ”opposites attract” describes this concept.
What is Complementary?
100
Culture can effect these.
What are Relationships?
200
This is hard for shy people to do, when it comes to romantic relationships.
What is Initiating?
200
The two types of demensions in every message
What are Content and Relational Demensions?
200
It has been said that this is the most popular piece of language
What is Questioning?
200
“We like people who like us” refers to this.
What is reciprocal attraction?
200
Couples live happily ever after in these?
What is Fairy Tales
300
People move rapidly through these two stages on cyberspace.
What is initiating and experimental
300
4 typs of relational messages
What are Affinity, Immediacy, Respect, and Control?
300
This is when you put statements into your own words
What is Paraphrasing?
300
Often one of the most important factors when forming first impressions, it is also a big reason why we form relationships.
What is Appearance?
300
At this point in a relationship a marriage may fail.
What is Stagnant?
400
This stage is closely related to the "honey-moon" stage found in the beginning of many romantic relationships.
What is Intensifying?
400
This happens when we discuss a relationship with others
What is Metacommunicating?
400
This would be the degree of interest and attention that we feel toward and communicate with others
What is Immediacy
400
One theory for why we are attracted to similar others is that it provides a measure of ego support. Known as implicit egotism, this ties into this concept
What is Similarity?
400
In all cultures these are likely to invest less emotionally in sexual relationships
What are Mules?
500
This is an example of what stage?
What is Circumscribing?
500
Most healthy relationships handle the distrubution of this in a flexable way.
What is Control
500
This is when someone silences or uses brief statements of encouragement to draw someone out
What is Prompting?
500
A formula used to decide whether dealing with another person is a “good deal” or “not worth the effort” based on the outcome. Social exchange theorists use this formula.
What is Rewards - Costs = Outcome?
500
Richard Conville's model that describes the constantly changing, evolving nature of relationships.
What is the Helical Model
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