CHAPTER 8 Flashcards

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Relationship Maintenance

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The routine behaviours and strategies partners undertake to ensure their relationship will continue and/or improve

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Intimacy Process Model

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A framework that describes intimacy in terms of disclosures and responses to those disclosures that serve to deepen or weaken feelings of understanding, validation, and caring in a committed relationship

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Interpretive Filter

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A key component of the intimacy process model that involves how partners understand each other’s disclosures and responses

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Emphatic interpretations increase _______________ whereas critical or dismissive interpretations can ____________________

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Feelings of closeness and intimacy; threaten these feelings

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Empathy

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The capacity to understand and share another person’s thoughts and feelings

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Self-Expansion Model

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A perspective on relationship maintenance based on the idea that people want to increase their capacity and effectiveness to achieve their goals and strive to acquire resources, enrich their identity, and strengthen their skills

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____________________ are a common way people attempt to improve, or expand, themselves

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Intimate relationships

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Social Integration

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Involvement and interconnections with other people

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Social Support

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The resources and assistance, both practical and emotional, that relationship partners provide each other

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Visible Support

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Efforts to promote the well-being of a partner that the recipient partner is AWARE of

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A drawback of visible support is the possible ___________________________

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Compromise of the recipient’s self-esteem

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Invisible Support

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Efforts to promote the well-being of a partner that the receiving partner is NOT AWARE of receiving, thereby reducing a sense of obligation to reciprocate while protecting the recipient’s self-esteem

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Broaden-and-Build Theory

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In the context of relationship maintenance, the idea that expressing positive emotions enhances how partners think about, and respond to, daily events, and helps build the resources for maintaining well-being

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Capitalization

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An interpersonal process in which positive events are disclosed by one partner and elaborated on by the other partner, thereby enhancing the association between those events and the relationship; a strategy for maintaining intimacy

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Forgiveness

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In the context of relationship maintenance, the transformation of anger or hurt feelings into a desire to be generous and unselfish toward the offending partner

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Impact Stage

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The stage in the forgiveness process when partners learn of the transgressions and begin to recognize the effect it has on their relationship; a time of disorientation, confusion, and hurt feelings

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Meaning Stage

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The stage in the forgiveness process when the offended partner tries to make sense of why the transgression happened

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Moving-On Stage

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The stage in the forgiveness process when the offended partner finds a way to adjust to and move beyond the incident

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Silent Forgiveness

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Change in intrapersonal motivation but no change in interpersonal behaviour

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Hollow Forgiveness

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Change in interpersonal behaviour but no change in intrapersonal motivation