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Relationship Theories
Relationship Development
Relationship Maintenance
Theories on Maintaining Relationships
100
The FIRST thing we notice when we meet a person
What is appearance?
100
These are the Theories of Relationships.
What is the Reduction Uncertainty Theory and the Social Penetration Theory
100
Meeting someone for the first time is in this stage.
What is Initiating?
100
Work done to have a relationship where both partners are happy
What is Relationship Maintenance?
100
This theory suggests that relationships can be represented by this equation Relationship Worth = Rewards - Cost
What is the Social Exchange Theory?
200
Being expelled from any community.
What is excommunication?
200
This happens when you don’t know the beliefs and attitudes of the other person.
What is Cognitive Uncertainty
200
Important Dialogic Communication skill that involves acknowledging you may be making a Fundamental Attribution Error
What is Giving the Benefit of the Doubt?
200
Sharing interests and experiences with your partner while also giving them space
What is dialogic communication?
200
This occurs when the information we believe is private and shared in confidence is broadcast to other parties.
What is Boundry Linkage (gossip)?
300
Social and Intimate Relationships
What are the two types of interpersonal relationships?
300
This happens when we don’t know how the other person will behave in a particular situation.
What is Behavior Uncertainty
300
Being attuned to the emotional state of another individual
What is Exercising Empathy?
300
Complementing your partner and being optimistic
What is positivity?
300
This phrase represents the category of communication in our lives that is the most important. (Not big events)
What is Everyday Talk
400
Respecting, Trusting, Acceptance, Negotiating Differences, Listening, Encouraging, and supporting.
What are the Seven-Caring Habits
400
Passive strategy, active strategy, interactive strategy.
What are strategies to reduce uncertainty
400
The Five Stages of Coming Together
What are Initiating, Experimenting, Intensifying, Integrating, and Bonding?
400
Mutual respect, trust, and interdependence
What are signs of a healthy relationship?
400
This is what happens when we compare our relationships to others that we see around us.
What is the comparison level of alternatives
500
Choosing friends or romantic partners based on traits such as appearance, proximity, similarity, and complementary differences.
What is the Attraction Theory.
500
When you find out more about a person piece by piece til you find out if they are nice and sweet or mean and. It's related to the social penetration theory.
What is the onion metaphor
500
The stage that two individuals put a lot of time and resources into one another.
What is Stage#4: Integration?
500
Talking about where the relationship is going.
What are relationship talks?
500
These are the four theories on how to maintain a relationship
What are Social Exchange Theory, Communication Privacy Managment, Everyday Talk, or Relational Dialects?
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