Chapter 14

Question 1

What is investment model?

Answer 1

commitment helps protect relationships against the destruction that hurtful events and conflict can cause

Question 2

What is commitment?

Answer 2

Satisfaction, investments, and alternatives predict how committed people are to their relationships

Question 3

What is satisfaction?

Answer 3

Rewards and Cost

Question 4

What are Rewards?

Answer 4

exchanged resources that are pleasurable and gratifying

includes affection, support and finances

Question 5

What are cost?

Answer 5

exchanged resources that result in a loss or punishment

includes relational transgressions and conflict

Question 6

What are outcomes?

Answer 6

ratio of costs to rewards

Question 7

Positive outcome is…

Answer 7

rewards outweigh costs

Question 8

Negative outcome is…

Answer 8

costs outweigh rewards

Question 9

What are investments?

Answer 9

Resources that become attached to a relationship and would decline in value or be lost if the relationship were to end

Question 10

What are intrinsic investments?

Answer 10

those put directly into the relationship

Includes time, effort, affection, disclosure

Question 11

What are extrinsic investments?

Answer 11

develop over time as a result of being in the relationship

Includes material possessions, enmeshment within a social network, identity attached to the relationship

Question 12

What is quality of alternatives?

Answer 12

The types of alternatives people perceive they have outside of the current relationship

Question 13

What are Pro-relationship behaviors?

Answer 13

If people are highly committed to their relationship, they are likely to use five pro-relationship behaviors when they encounter problems

Question 14

What is model of accomodation?

Answer 14

people in committed relationships are more likely to accommodate their partners and repair their relationship

Question 15

What are destructive behaviors?

Answer 15

• exit
• neglect
• punishment
• antisocial communication

Question 16

What is exit?

Answer 16

threatening to break up, move out, or get a divorce

Question 17

What is neglect?

Answer 17

standing by and letting the situation get worse

Question 18

What is punishment?

Answer 18

– balancing the relationship by evening the score or forcing the partner to act to restore closeness

Question 19

What is antisocial communication?

Answer 19

yelling, insults, seeking revenge

Question 20

What are constructive behaviors?

Answer 20

• voice
• loyalty
• prosocial communicaton

Question 21

What is voice?

Answer 21

– involves discussion and problem solving

Question 22

What is loyalty?

Answer 22

optimistically waiting for positive change, hoping things will improve

Question 23

What is prosocial communication?

Answer 23

focus on re-establishing closeness and connection

Question 24

What are remedial strategies?

Answer 24

– specific behaviors that people engage in to try and fix their relationship after they have done something wrong

Question 25

What is forgiveness?

Answer 25

Forgiveness is critical in repairing relationship after a transgression has occurred

Question 26

What is explicit forgiveness?

Answer 26

– making a direct statement (“I forgive you”)

Question 27

What is minimizing?

Answer 27

emphasizes that the transgression was not that bad and that the partner should not worry anymore

Question 28

What is conditional forgiveness?

Answer 28

forgiveness is contingent upon the partner’s behavior