Chapter 8,9,10

Question 1

Assertiveness

Answer 1

involves acting in one’s own best interests by expressing one’s thoughts and feelings directly and honestly.

Question 2

Defensiveness

Answer 2

—an excessive concern with protecting oneself from being hurt.

Question 3

Interpersonal Communication

Answer 3

as an interactional process in which one person sends a message to another.

Question 4

Listening

Answer 4

is a mindful activity and complex process requiring one to select and organize information, interpret and respond to communications, and recall what was heard.

Question 5

Nonverbal Communication

Answer 5

is the transmission of meaning from one person to another through means or symbols other than words.

Question 6

Personal Space

Answer 6

is a zone of space surrounding a person that is felt to “belong” to that person.

Question 7

Self-disclosure

Answer 7

is the act of sharing personal information about yourself with another person.

Question 8

Attachments styles

Answer 8

or typical ways of interacting in close relationships.

Question 9

Commitment

Answer 9

involves the decision and intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise.

Question 10

comparison level

Answer 10

is a personal standard of what constitutes an acceptable balance of rewards and costs in a relationship.

Question 11

Comparison level for alternatives

Answer 11

or one’s estimation of the available outcomes from alternative relationships.

Question 12

Intimacy

Answer 12

refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship.

Question 13

Investments

Answer 13

or things that people contribute to a relationship that they can’t get back if the relationship ends.

Question 14

Loneliness

Answer 14

occurs when a person has fewer interpersonal relationships than desired or when these relationships are not as satisfying as desired.

Question 15

Matching hypothesis

Answer 15

proposes that people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other.

Question 16

Relationship maintenance

Answer 16

involves the actions and activities used to sustain the desired quality of a relationship.

Question 17

Sexual orientation

Answer 17

refers to a person’s preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same gender, the other gender, or either gender.

Question 18

Social exchange theory

Answer 18

postulates that interpersonal relationships are governed by perceptions of the rewards and costs exchanged in interactions.

Question 19

Battering

Answer 19

encompasses physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse of an intimate partner.

Question 20

Endogamy

Answer 20

is the tendency for people to marry within their own social group.

Question 21

Homogamy

Answer 21

is the tendency for people to marry others who have similar personal characteristics.

Question 22

Monogamy

Answer 22

is the practice of having only one spouse at a time.

Question 23

Polygamy

Answer 23

having more than one spouse at a time.