Deep affection for another person with varying degrees of passion, commitment and intimacy
What is love?
100
Nearness, physical or virtual.
What is Proximity?
100
Makes you feel good about a relationship
What is Rewards?
100
Its your LUCKY DAY
YOU GET 100 BONUS POINTS
100
Stage in which you make contact with another person "hello."
What is initiating stage?
200
Closeness and understanding and important to romantic relationships
What is intimacy?
200
A need to share our lives with others.
What is Inclusion?
200
The aspects of a relationship that upset you
What is Costs?
200
Theory which explains how relational partners move toward intimacy, the primary goal of many relationships...
What is Social Penetration Theory?
200
Stage in which you are seeking relatively, superficial info from one another "small talk."
What is exploratory stage?
300
The interconnections between two individuals
What is interpersonal relationships?
300
The belief that the extent to which we project ourselves onto another person is the direct result of the attraction we feel for that person.
What is Attraction-Similarity Hypothesis?
300
Strategies that involve communicating directly with the person
What is Interactive Strategies?
300
Theory which helps explain how people perceive the information they hold about themselves and how they disclose it...
What is Communication Privacy Management Theory?
300
Intensification stage occurs when the relational partners become increasingly intimate and move their communication towards more personal self disclosures "pet names."
What is intensification stage?
400
A complex or web of relationships including family and friendships
What is relational network?
400
We seek relationships with others who have comparable levels of attractiveness
What is Matching Hypothesis?
400
Involves observing others without interacting
What is Passive Strategies?
400
Arises when violations occur in a relationship that make it necessary to readjust the disclosure versus privacy...
What is Boundary Turbulence?
400
Feel comfortable with their motives for being in the relationship. Sub-stages are integrating and bonding.
What is stable stage?
500
Explains that virtual relationships develop much like those that grow from face-to-face contact, but the process takes longer to become more intimate.
What is Social information processing theory?
500
Two people from the same ethnic group are more genetically similar than two people from different ethnic groups.
What is Genetic-Similarity Hypothesis?
500
Explains how we balance the advantages and disadvantages in relationships
What is Social Exchange Theory?
500
Used to maneuver the conversation away from topics that make people feel vulnerable...
What is Strategic Topic Avoidance?
500
Relationship begins to come apart, due to unmet expectations.