Definitions
(Classic)
(Classic)
These are rules that describe the kinds of actions that members are expected to follow.
What are Regulative Rules?
This author discusses families that need communication to establish family identity and ensure they are recognizable by those outside the family.
Who is Suter (2008)?
This is a data gathering technique where participants identify turning points in a relationship on a graph.
What is Retrospective Interview Technique?
This is the ability to communicate in a personally effective and socially appropriate manner.
What is communication competence?
This is a common practice to avoid over disclosing or premature disclosure. It involves matching the level and amount of a relational partner’s disclosures.
What is the norm of reciprocity in self disclosure?
This is a nonverbal code that is centered on the use of space.
What is Proxemics?
This system mainly has internal and external functions.
What is the family?
This involves the unconscious or unintentional external displays of internal emotions and/or nonverbal messages.
What is Spontaneous Communication?
According to this approach, two best friends discussing a memory from their senior year of high school would be considered interpersonal communication.
What is the developmental approach?
This is an idealized type of person whose existence is viewed as essential if the prevailing social order within a culture is to continue.
What is the modal self?
This is the study of how morphemes carry meaning.
What is Semantics?
Cultural patterns, life script, relationship among ppl speaking, episode, speech act/goal, and content are all important levels of ___ in the _____ theory.
What are contexts in the Coordinated Management of Meaning?
This is a parental message that can involve outright ridiculing, giving the cold shoulder to, or otherwise withholding affection from a child when they fail to comply with expectations.
What is Love Withdrawal?
This is a cognitive image we hold of an ideal version of a relationship. It generally has three parts including a natural language label, criterial attributes, and communicative indicators.
What are relational prototypes?
This is when stress in the workplace affects the family relationships at home.
What is crossover?
This is a family structure for determining how the family will make use of free time or coming change.
What is Decision-Making Structure(s)?
Physical beauty, similarity, reciprocal liking, complementary needs, and potential costs & rewards are all aspects of this important concept.
What are aspects of interpersonal attraction?
These theorists believe that power and social inequality are recreated through the use of language in certain ways.
Who are Critical Theorists?
This theory holds that people have a basic need to know how they’re doing so they compare themselves to similar others.
What is Social Comparison Theory?
These are theories concerned with how we infer the causes of social behavior.
What are attribution theories?
This is the assumption of rights toward some area, with the realization that there is little natural basis for those rights.
What is Territoriality?
This theory assumes that we will respond positively to behavior that conforms to social expectations and we will respond negatively to behavior that deviates from norms.
What is Expectancy Violations Theory?
According to this theory, moderate levels of arousal/awareness triggers conscious processing of the many interpretations we may have of another person’s actions.
What is Cognitive Valence Theory?
This is a belief that your own culture is better than any other culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
This is the practice of being aware of how we appear to others and the ability to adapt our image to the situation at hand.
What is self monitoring?