CHAPTER 10 Flashcards

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Conflict

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A results of one person interfering with another person’s ability to pursue this or her goals

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Coding System

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Any one of several schemes researchers use for classifying observed behaviors

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Affect

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Feeling or emotional expression; the emotional component of verbal and nonverbal communication

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Structural Model of Marital Interaction

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The idea that 3 areas of behavior distinguish happy and unhappy couples when they are trying to resolve a relationship problem

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What are the 3 behaviors in the Structural Model of Marital Interaction?

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The positivity and negativity of their behaviour

The amount of predictability of behaviors between them

Their ability to exit cycles of reciprocal negative behavior

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Cognitive Editing

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The tendency in happy couples to respond to a partner’s negative behaviors neutrally or positively

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Reactivity Hypothesis

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The idea that unhappy couples are more sensitive and responsible to immediate events in their relationship, regardless of whether the events are positive or negative

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Talk Table

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A technique for studying couple interactions in which speakers rate the intent of their own messages and the impact of their partners’ messages, thus enabling researchers to identify sources of miscommunication

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Demand/Withdraw Pattern

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A behavioral sequence common in distressed relationships in which one partner expresses a desire for change and the other partner resists change by disengaging from the interaction

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Polarized

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Referring to polar opposites; in an intimate relationship, a couple is polarized when the two partners adopt opposing viewpoints in an argument

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Cross-Validation

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A strategy in which a researcher takes a specific finding in one study and tries to repeat it precisely with a second sample of data

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