Health Communication
(du Pre 2017)
Communication Climates (Chapter 8)
Conflict
(Chapter 9)
Friendships (Chapter 10)
100

States that knowing that other people are there for us can cushion us from feeling overwhelmed or helpless.

What is the buffering hypothesis? 

100

Describes the overall feeling between people.

What are communication climates?

100

What are the four responses to conflict?

Neglect, Loyalty, Exit, Voice

100

Male-to-male friendships tend to build relationships by ____ instead of _____. 

Doing; Dialogue 

200

What are two strategies of coping? 

Action-facilitating

Nurturing

200

What are the features of satisfying interpersonal relationships? 

Investment

Commitment 

Trust

Relational Dialectics 

200

When someone can't stay on topic during a conflict and starts bringing up every past problem or issue.

What is kitchen-sinking? 

200

Unspoken understandings that regulate how people interact

What are relationship rules? 

300

Guarantees that people can take up to 12 weeks off work to care for ailing family members, seek medical care themselves, or bring new children into their families.

What is the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? 

300

Name the three relational dialectics in healthy relationships.

Autonomy/Connection

Novelty/Predictability

Openness/Closedness

300

What are the four key parts of defining conflict?

1. Expressed Tension

2. Interdependence 

3. Perceived Incompatible Goals

4. Need to Resolve Differences 

300

What are the 5 stages of friendship development? 

Initial Meeting 

New Acquaintances 

Fledgling Friendship

Nascent Friendship

Stabilized Friendship 

400

What did Robert Waldinger's research and TedTalk on "the good life" discover?

People who are more socially connected to others are happier, healthier, and live longer. Quality of friendships>quantitity. 

400

How do people manage relational dialectics?

Neutralization

Selection

Separation

Reframing

400

During a team meeting, Sarah proposes a new approach to complete a project, but Jason immediately dismisses her idea and insists on sticking to the original plan. Sarah tries to explain the benefits of her suggestion, but Jason continues to dominate the conversation. What conflict style is Jason displaying in this scenario?

Competing

400

What are the 3 external tensions in friendships?

Competing demands 

Personal changes

Geographic distance

500

What 3 forms of support does nurturing provide? 

Esteem support

Emotional support

Social network support

500

What are the 6 types of communication that promote disconfirming climates?

Evaluation

Certainty

Strategy

Control 

Neutrality

Superiority

500

Building a solution through negotiation and the acceptance of parts of proposals.

What is countering?

500

What are the 5 expectations of friendships? 

Willingness to invest 

Acceptance 

Emotional closeness

Trust 

Support