Chapter 10-Close Relationships Flashcards
Peer
Someone of similar power or status to oneself
Friendship life span
Role-limited interaction, friendly relations, moves toward friendship, nascent friendship, stabilized friendship, waning friendship
waning friendship
Marks decline of their friendship
Role-limited interaction
Stranger stage (civil but polite ) little personal info
Friendly relations
Friendlier convo, invitation to friendship
Moves toward friendship
More social and bound by less norms and rules
Nascent friendship
Begin tot thinly themselves as friends
Stabilized friendship
Friendship is fully established
Waning friendship
Marks decline in friendship
Monogamy
Being in only one romantic relationship
Infidelity
Sexual involvement with someone other than ones romantic partner
Polygamy
A practice in which one person is married to 2 or more spouses
Communication privacy management theory
Theory that explains how people manage the tension b/t privacy and disclosure
Family of origin
The family in which one grows up
Family of procreation
The family one starts as an adult