Types of Relationships
Stages of Relationships
Dialect
Example
Disclosure & Feedback
100
What is an acquaintance?
People who we know by name and talk with when the opportunity arises, but with whom our interactions are largely impersonal.
100
Define the beginning stages of a relationship.
Communication of a relationship focuses on reducing uncertainty by increasing your knowledge of the other person.
100
What is dialectic?
A tension between conflicting forces.
100
Give an example of a friendship.
People who we connect with voluntarily and share a close interpersonal relationship.
100
What is self-disclosure?
Sharing biological data, personal ideas, and feelings that are unknown to the other person.
200
People with whom we have voluntarily negotiated more personal relationships with is called ______?
Friends.
200
What is the second stage of a relationship?
Developing stage.
200
What is openness?
Desire to share intimate ideas and feelings with one's partner.
200
Give an example of a developing relationship.
Begin to engage in more physical contact and feel a deepening psychological closeness.
200
What is feedback?
Verbal and physical response to people within the relationship.
300
What is a platonic relationship?
An intimate relationship in which the partners are not sexually attracted to each other or do not act on an attraction they feel.
300
How do you maintain relationships?
Both parties participate to keep the relationship that a particular closeness, willingness to sacrifice, positive illusion, and forgiveness.
300
What is novelty?
Originality, freshness, and uniqueness in the partners' behavior or in a relationship.
300
Give an example of an impersonal communication.
Interchangeable cit-chat.
300
What is the open pane?
Information about you that both parties know. Includes disclosed and observations about you that your partner has shared with you.
400
Placing confidence in another in a way that almost always involves some risk is called _______?
Trust.
400
What is an autonomy?
The desire to do things independently of one's partner.
400
What is reframing?
The strategy of changing one's perspective about the level of tension.
400
Give an example of a deteriorating relationship.
Relationship drifts apart, become less willing to sacrifice, communicate less, and disengaging.
400
What is the Johari Window?
A tool for examining the relationship between disclosure and feedback.
500
The friendship guideline includes initiation, responsiveness, and _________?
Self-disclosure.
500
What is a relationship transformation?
After an intimate relationship is over, continuing to interact and influence each other through a different type of relationship.
500
What is neutralization?
Strategy of compromising between the desires of two partners.
500
Give an example of closedness.
Desire to maintain one's privacy in a relationship.
500
What is "saving face"?
Process of attempting to maintain a positive self-image in a relational situation.
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