Defining Friendship
Someone you may know the name of and converse with, but typically only in a limited scope.
What is an acquaintance?
The age that a study identified as the time in our lives when we have the greatest number of social connections with others.
What is 25?
The way that women are most likely to achieve closeness with each other.
What is dialogue?
The behavior that men use to express their closeness and connection with each other.
What is action-oriented behavior?
When the terms "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" both appeared.
What is the 1890s?
One component of a romantic relationship that a friendship doesn't include, defined as an intention to remain in the relationship even if trouble occurs.
What is commitment?
The three social psychologists that developed the two models of friendship development (social penetration theory and the six-stage relationship model) outlined in the textbook.
Who are Dalmas Taylor, Irwin Altman, and W. K. Rawlins?
The two layers of Taylor and Altman's model that female friendships are characterized as.
What is breadth and depth?
The two ways that male friendships develop.
What is engaging activities and side-to-side interactions?
A benefit for women in women/men friendships, women find they release more stress through this.
What is fun or activities?
Another component of a romantic relationship that a friendship doesn't include, defined as intensely positive feelings of attraction that motivate you to want to be with the other person and have physical contact.
What is passion?
The centermost part of Taylor and Altman's social penetration model (Breadth, Outer Layers, Inner Layers, ____).
What is depth?
The two kinds of talk that women engage in.
What is personal and disclosive?
A type of dialogue that consists of joking, friendly competition, razing, topic dominance, and frequent interruptions.
What is male-patterned talk?
A benefit for men in women/men friendships, men find they have more access to this.
What is emotional and expressive type of support?
The final component of a romantic relationship that a friendship doesn't include, defined as sustained feelings of closeness and connection.
What is intimacy?
The first stage in Rawlins' friendship development model, when two people first come into contact.
What is role-limited interaction?
The two aspects of relationships that female friendships depend on the development of.
What is trust and loyalty?
An intimacy expressed unobtrusively and silently, due to the fear of being socially censured or losing relational control if they disclose personal information.
What is covert intimacy?
Women do less of it in women/men friendships, whereas men do more.
What is disclosing?
The three components of friendship as defined by the textbook.
What are intellectual sharing, emotional disclosing, and participating in shared activities?
The final stage of Rawlins' six-stage model, when a friendship begins to fall out.
What is waning friendship?
The dynamics that women are more likely to pay attention to within a friendship.
What is interpersonal communication dynamics?
What is directness?
What both women and men can develop when engaging in women/men friendships.
What is gender empathy?