Relational Introduction & Theories

Question 1

Knapp’s stages of Relational Development

Answer 1

Coming together
- Initiating
-Experimenting
-Intensifying
-Integrating
-Bonding

Coming Apart
- Differentiating
-Circumscribing
-Stagnating
-Avoiding
-Terminating

Question 2

Movement with Relational Development

Answer 2

-Movement is systematic and sequential

-May be forwards or backwards

-Movement occurs within stages

-Movment is always to a new place

Question 3

Dialectical theory and tensions

Answer 3

Change takes place as the result of trying to resolve the inevitable tensions of relationship life

These tensions arise as we try to manage simultaneously to more desirable but but contradictory actions

Question 4

Goffman civil inattention

Answer 4

Walking down street we will glance up to see if we know the other person at 8ft but if unknown we will dim lights like looking down

Question 5

Social Exchange theory

Answer 5

1.) Change of resources in relationships
2.) resources are evaluated by us as rewarding or not
3.)people tend to seek things that are rewarding to them

Question 6

Turning point theory

Answer 6

When a major event occurs that has an impact on the relationship

Question 6

4 Relational States

Answer 6

1.) Strangers
2.) Acquaintances
3.) Casual Friends
4.) Intimates

Question 7

Strangers

Answer 7

• Do not talk at all
• Walk past each other without acknowledgement
  -Civil Inattention

Question 8

Acquaintances

Answer 8

-People we know use recognize but we share little else
-communication is short, predictable, little breath and depth, ritualistic

Question 9

Casual Friends

Answer 9

-Slightly less predictable slightly less short
-Small talk

Question 10

Intimates

Answer 10

-Spontaneous talk, more uncertain, less predictable
-short hand communication
-inside jokes, nicknames, highly accessible