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Week 9-12 Flashcards

1
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Is a feeling of affection and respect that we typically have four our friends

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Liking

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Is a vastly deeper and more intense emotional experience and consists of three components, intimacy, caring, and attachment

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Loving

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A state of intense emotional and physical longing for union with another

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Passionate love

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An intense form of liking defined by emotional investment and deeply intertwined lives

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Companionate love

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A chosen interpersonal involvement forged through communication in which the participants perceive the bond as romantic

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Romantic relationship

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A strong psychological attachment to a partner and an intention to continue the relationship long into the future

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Commitment

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When we are involved in intimate relationships, we often experience competing impulses, or tensions, between ourselves and our feelings towards others known as

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Relational dialects

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We view beautiful people as competent communicators, intelligent, and well-adjusted, a phenomenon known as the

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Beautiful-is-good effect

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We tend to form long-term romantic relationships with people we judge as similar to ourselves and physical attractiveness

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Matching

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Scientific evidence suggests that we are attracted to those we perceive as similar to ourselves

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Birds-of-a-feather effect

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Whether the person we are attracted to makes it clear, through communication and other actions, that the attraction is mutual, known as

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Reciprocal liking

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Purposes that you’ll feel drawn to those you see as offering substantial benefits (things you like and want) with few associate cost (things demanded of you in return)

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Social exchange theory

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Once you’ve experienced attraction because of perceived rewards, the balance of benefits and cost exchange by you and the other person, known as _____, determines whether a relationship will take root

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equity

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During the ______ stage, you size of a person you just met or noticed

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Initiating stage

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Once you initiate an encounter with someone else (online or face-to face), you enter the ______ stage during which you exchange demographic information (names, majors, where you grew up).

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Experimenting stage

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You and your partner begin to reveal previously withheld information, such as secrets about your past or important life dreams and goals

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Intensifying stage

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Your and your partners personalities seem to become one

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Integrating stage

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A public ritual of that announces to the world that you and your partner have made a commitment to one another

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Bonding stage

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The beliefs, attitudes, and values that distinguish you from your partner come to dominate your thoughts and communication

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Differentiating stage

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When circumscribing becomes so severe that almost no safe controversial topics remain, communication slows to a standstill, and your relationship enters the

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Stagnating stage

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One or both of you decide that you no longer can be around each other, and you begin distancing yourself physically

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Avoiding stage

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Couples might discuss the past, present, and future of the relationship

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Terminating stage

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Refers to using communication and supportive behaviors to sustain a desired relationship status and level of satisfaction

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Relational maintenance

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Is defined as an act that goes against expectations of a romantic relationship and, as a result, causes pain to a partner

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Romantic betrayal

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A protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship

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Jealousy

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A person deliberately uses messages, photos, and post to try and_____ him or herself between partners in a romantic couple because he or she is interested in one of the partners

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Wedging

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The violation of one’s independence and privacy by a person who desires an intimate relationship

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Relational intrusion

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Is a network of people who share their lives over long periods of time and are Bonded by marriage, blood, or commitment; who consider themselves as family, and share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning in a family relationship

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Family

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A wife, husband, and their biological or adopted children-was the most common family type in North America

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Nuclear family

30
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When relatives such as aunts, uncles, parents, children, and grandparents live together in a common household, the result is

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Extended family

31
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In which at least one of the adults has a child or children from a previous relationship

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Stepfamily

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Consist of two un married, romantically involved adults living together in a household, with or without children

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Cohabitating couples

33
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Only one adult resides in the household, possessing sole responsibility as a caregiver for the children

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Single-parent family

34
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Our narrative accounts shared repeatedly within a family that retell historical events and are meant to bond the family together

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Family stories

35
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Two dimensions underlie the communication between family members

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Family communication patterns theory

36
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The degree to which families believe that communication should emphasize similarity or diversity in attitudes, beliefs, and values

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Conformity orientation

37
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Families high in both conversational and conformity are

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Consensual families

38
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Families high in conversation but low in conformity are

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Pluralistic families

39
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Are low on conversation and high on conformity

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Protective families

40
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Families low in both conversation and conformity are

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Laissez-faire families

41
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Individuals create informational boundaries by carefully choosing the kind of private information they reveal and the people with whom they share it

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Communication privacy management theory

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The degree to which family members are encouraged to participate in on restrained interaction about a wide array of topics

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Conversation orientation

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The conditions governing what family members can talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who should have access to family-relevant information

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Family privacy rules

44
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Loyalty conflicts that arise when a coalition is formed, uniting one family member with another against a third person

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Triangulation

45
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Where one or both parents allocate an unfair amount of valuable resources to one child over others

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Parental favoritism

46
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Hostile interactions between parents and the household

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Interparental conflict

47
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Emotions, affects, and mood from one parental relationship (spillover) into the broader family-disrupting children’s sense of emotional security

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Spillover hypothesis

48
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Is a voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking

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Friendship

49
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Communal friends try to get together as often as possible, and they provide encouragement and emotional support to one another during times of need

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Communal friendship

50
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Agentic friends of value sharing time together-but only if they’re available and have no other priorities to handle at the moment

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Agentic friendship

51
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Behaving in ways that convey understanding, acceptance, and support for a friends valued social identities

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Identity support

52
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Are the aspects of your public self that you deem the most important in defining who you are-for example, musician, athlete, poet, dancer, teacher, mother, and so on

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Valued social identities

53
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Forging friendships that cross demographic lines, known as ______, such friendships are a powerful way to break down in grouper and outgroup or perceptions and purge people of negative stereotypes

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Cross-category friendships

54
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General principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within friendship relationships

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Friendship rules

55
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The participants engage in sexual activity, but not with the purpose of transforming the relationship into a romantic attachment

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FWB relationships

56
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Any affiliation you have with a professional Peer, supervisor, subordinate, or mentor can be considered a

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Workplace relationship

57
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Just as each of us has social networks of acquaintances, friends, and family members linked through communication, workplaces also have a system of communication linkages, known as

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Organizational networks

58
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Group of coworkers linked solely through email, social networking sites, Skype and other online services

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Virtual networks

59
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Dense networks of coworkers who share the same workplace values and broader like attitudes

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Workplace cliques

60
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Is it supportive, warm, and welcoming? Detached, cool, and unfriendly? Somewhere in between? This overreaching emotional quality of a workplace is known as

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Organizational climate

61
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The environment is on friendly, rigid, and unsupportive of workers professional and professional needs

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Defense climate

62
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Describe the workplace as warm, open, and supportive

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Supportive climate

63
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Workers in the United States now spend almost 2 hours a day____, using their work computers to game, web surf, update Facebook, e-mail, and IM about personal interests as an activities when they should be focused on work related tasks

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Cyberslacking

64
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Are most meaningful and intimate workplace relationships are those with our_______, people holding positions of organizational status and power similar to our own

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Professional peers

65
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The evolution of the relationship from information. To collegial. Is similar for_______, coworkers who communicate mainly through phone, e-mail, Skype, and other communication technologies

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Virtual peers

66
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Relationships between coworkers of different organizations statuses are called______, and they provide the structural foundation on which most organizations are built

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Mixed-status relationships

67
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Persuading superiors to support our work-related needs and wants is achieved through_____-communication from subordinates to superiors-and is conducted with an eye toward achieving influence

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Upward communication

68
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Organizational communication scholar Eric Eisenberg argues that the most effective form of a upward communication is_____, you learn you superiors communication preferences and how to design messages in ways that will appeal to your superior

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Advocacy

69
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Having formal authority in an organization gives you freedom in the messages you use when interacting with subordinates, known as

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Downward communication

70
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Is the repeated unethical and unfavorable treatment of one or more persons by others in the workplace

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Workplace bullying

71
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Although most people condemn _______ in the workplace, enormous differences exist in perceptions of what consists of harassment. The most commonly cited definition of ________ is one created by the US equal employment opportunity commission (1980)

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sexual harassment

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