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EXAM 2 Flashcards

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politeness theory

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explains why and how people try to promote, protect, to save face

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face

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desired self image you wish to present to others

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negative face

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  • desire to act freely without constraint

- brutally honest

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positive face

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  • liked, appreciated, admired

- doing thing so people feel this way about you

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3 assumptions of politeness theory

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1) all people are concerned with maintaining face
2) humans are rational and goal orientated
3) Some behaviors are fundamentally face threatening

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preventive face work

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  • working for a specific face
  • avoid topic
  • lie
  • pretend not to notice
  • change topic
  • BEFORE THE FACE HAPPENS
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corrective face work

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  • fixing face of self or another after a face threatening act
  • AFTER FACE HAPPENS
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avoid

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choose not to communicate/ change topic

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go off record

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indirectly hints or subtly mentions face threat topic

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negative politeness

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speaker makes effort to recognize others negative face needs

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positive politeness

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speaker emphasizes recipes need to be liked

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bald on record

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blunt. no attempt to protect face

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artifacts

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things you own/ materialistic

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kinesics

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body movement

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haptics

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touch

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proxemics

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use of personal space

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physical appearance

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what you look like

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environment

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how you set up “your” space

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chronemics

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the use of time to communicate

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vocalics

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tone, rate, pitch of speaking

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stages of escalation

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  • initiating
  • experimenting
  • intensifying
  • integrating
  • bonding
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22
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movement in relationships

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  • generally sequential
  • may be forward or backward
  • move within stages happen
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initiating stage

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  • display self
  • scan for commonalities/ attractiveness
  • talk
  • greeting seduction rituals
  • ends with first line
  • caution and convention
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experimenting stage

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  • we ask questions
  • small talk
  • we decide if its worthwhile
  • most relationships do not progress beyond this point
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intensifying stage

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  • move beyond superficial knowledge
  • gradually= tentative
  • increase depth
  • more informal
  • switch from I to we
  • make direct expressions
  • private jokes
  • take on roles
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integrating stage

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  • identities fuse and become a couple
  • merge social circles
  • common property (songs/ movies)
  • similarities in speech, dress and mannerisms
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bonding stage

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  • public ritual to announce the formal commitment
  • marriage/ engagement
  • hard to terminate at this point
  • you can pop in and out of this stage
  • make sacrifices for relationship
  • long term plans
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coming apart stages

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  • differentiating
  • circumscribing
  • stagnating
  • avoiding
  • terminating
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differentiating stage

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  • becoming distant
  • realizing how different you are as people
  • arguments and attempts to break up
  • confused/ separate
  • less talk about topics central to personalities
  • unfused identities
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circumscribing stage

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  • cutting off certain topics
  • reduce quantity and quality
  • less affection talk
  • do induvidualisic actives
  • feel cold or distant
  • silent in the car
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stagnating stage

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  • communication is infrequent, tense and awkward
  • afraid talk will produce
  • low experimentation
  • little sense of bringing up certain topics because you know what would happen
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avoiding stage

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  • rearranging lives to avoid contact
  • talk frankly
  • more of a way not to waste engird on person
  • angry, helpless, nervous
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terminating stage

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-ending relationship verbally, physically

34
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liking

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affection- warm, closeness, fondness

respect- admiration independent of relationship

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loving

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attachment- powerful drive to be in presence
caring- need to give without concern for receiving
intimacy- sense of deep union between 2 people

36
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principal of lease interest

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the person who cares the least has the most power

37
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more romantic

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men

38
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falls in love faster

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men

39
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falls our of love faster

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women

40
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recover better after relationship

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women

41
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sees more problems in relationship

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woman

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dump more

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women

43
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dump more if less involved

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men

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sees breakup as abrupt

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men

45
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suffers more after relationship breakup

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men

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experience unrequited love more

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women

47
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who experiences love at first sight more

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men

48
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love styles scale

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  • storge
  • Agapic
  • Manic
  • Pragma
  • Ludic
  • Eros
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Storge

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  • friendship love
  • very close friendships becomes love
  • women have higher these
  • love is not mystery feeling
  • physical attraction is not as important
  • emotions tend to be muted
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Agapic

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  • selfless love
  • I would rather suffer than let them suffer
  • put ones love above ones left
  • can be taken advantage
  • more focused on giving then receiving
  • willing to make sacrifices
  • want someone to love
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Manic

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  • possessive love
  • feeling ownership over lover
  • demanding, dependent, possessive
  • always comparing relationship with when it was at its best
  • happiness relies on someone else
  • obsessive or over control
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Pragma

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  • logical love
  • cognitive appreciate for others quality
  • best to love someone with similar background
  • shopping list lover
  • rational (pros and cons)
  • love is a choice
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Ludic

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  • game play love
  • flirtatious and not committed
  • love is fleeting and fun mindset
  • best person to date
  • avoid serious commitment
  • low levels of disclosure
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Eros

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  • passionate love
  • love at first sight
  • emotional highs and lows
  • escalate sexual intimacy
  • physical contact/ nonverbal affection
  • serial daters
55
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storge and storge

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good

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eros and storge

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bad

57
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eros and eros

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bad

58
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manic and storge

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bad

59
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social exchange theory

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  • people evaluate relationships based on an exchange of goods
  • maximize reward
  • minimize cost
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evaluating a relationship

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  • comparison level
  • comparison level for alternatives
  • outcomes
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comparison leven (CL)

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  • what we believe we deserve in our relationships
  • the list
  • measure our happiness
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comparison level for alternatives (CLalt)

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  • what rewards we would get if we were not in this relationship
  • measure our stability
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outcomes (O)

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-what actually comes occurs in reality

64
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8 codes of nonverbal comm

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  • artifacts
  • kinesics
  • haptics
  • proxemics
  • physical appearance
  • environment
  • chronemics
  • vocalics

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