Chapter 7.1
The word "toxic" was first applied to relationships that ______.
Are poisonous and potentially devastating to the relationship.
True or false: According to David Mace, couples react to conflict in four ways: avoidance, tolerance, fighting, or processing.
True
At the ______ of analyzing conflict, people develop blind spots about their own behavior and rigid ways of seeing the other.
The Microlevel
The use of descriptive language by an individual in an interpersonal system ______.
Prevents blaming the other for causing a problem.
True or false: Systems theory provides a lens through which to analyze what happens in conflicts.
True
Which of the following is true according to the key concept of wholeness in systems thinking?
One should look at an entire system in conflict.
According to Rands, Levinger, and Mellinger, ______ couples lack vitality,
Intimacy, and escalation.
According to David Mace, one of the originators of marital enrichment programs, processing conflict involves ______.
Active Listening
According to Papp, Silverstein, and Carter, in systems theory analyses, ______.
Each part can only be understood in the context of the whole.
According to Rands, Levinger, and Mellinger, ______ relationships foster escalation without any corresponding intimacy.
Nonintimate-aggressive
Identify a true statement about conflict for couples who maintain.
Nonintimate-aggressive relationships.
True or false: According to Rands, Levinger, and Mellinger, intimate-aggressive couples combine intimate behavior with aggressive acts.
True
Intimate-aggressive couples' conflicts usually result in ______.
Intimacy
______ is usually the constructive strategy of choice when people realize why they are in conflict and what they might do about it.
Direct Communication
The basic tool for assessing the system from a "no blame" perspective is what?
Descriptive language
In the context of systems thinking, which of the following concepts is most likely to reflect that every individual is embedded within a relational system?
Wholeness
According to the description of the marital system by Cuber and Haroff, identify a true statement about a passive-congenial relationship.
Both partners in the relationship accept a calm marriage that maintains little conflict.
Which of the following approaches to macro-level analysis tells people about the workings of the entire systems and subsystems in organizations, small groups, and families?
General systems theory
Which of the following occurs in systems theory analyses according to Papp, Silverstein, and Carter?
List one answer choice
The whole is considered to be greater than the sum of its parts.
A change in any one part will affect every other part.
Intimate-nonaggressive couples are _____, whether they are expressive or congenial.
Satisfied
According to Rands, Levinger, and Mellinger, ______ partners use small amounts of attacking or blaming behavior, retaining their intimacy in other ways.
Intimate-nonaggressive
Most people cannot accurately describe the macrolevel impacting them while analyzing conflicts because people embroiled in an emotionally involving conflict are very likely to see the problems as coming from the behavior, personality, and morality of the other players involved in the conflict.
System dynamics
On the basis of the classification of conflict in terms of the conflict stages by Guerin et al., identify the conflict stage this is characterized by a level of conflict that causes no distress to the system.
Stage 1
Who is my favorite character in Star Wars?
Obi-Wan Kenobi
According to the description of the marital system by Cuber and Haroff, devitalized marriages are those in which the relationship ______.
Is a hollow shell of what originally was vibrant and living