Week 9-12 Flashcards
Is a feeling of affection and respect that we typically have four our friends
Liking
Is a vastly deeper and more intense emotional experience and consists of three components, intimacy, caring, and attachment
Loving
A state of intense emotional and physical longing for union with another
Passionate love
An intense form of liking defined by emotional investment and deeply intertwined lives
Companionate love
A chosen interpersonal involvement forged through communication in which the participants perceive the bond as romantic
Romantic relationship
A strong psychological attachment to a partner and an intention to continue the relationship long into the future
Commitment
When we are involved in intimate relationships, we often experience competing impulses, or tensions, between ourselves and our feelings towards others known as
Relational dialects
We view beautiful people as competent communicators, intelligent, and well-adjusted, a phenomenon known as the
Beautiful-is-good effect
We tend to form long-term romantic relationships with people we judge as similar to ourselves and physical attractiveness
Matching
Scientific evidence suggests that we are attracted to those we perceive as similar to ourselves
Birds-of-a-feather effect
Whether the person we are attracted to makes it clear, through communication and other actions, that the attraction is mutual, known as
Reciprocal liking
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)
Social exchange theory
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
equity
During the ______ stage, you size of a person you just met or noticed
Initiating stage
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).
Experimenting stage
You and your partner begin to reveal previously withheld information, such as secrets about your past or important life dreams and goals
Intensifying stage
Your and your partners personalities seem to become one
Integrating stage
A public ritual of that announces to the world that you and your partner have made a commitment to one another
Bonding stage
The beliefs, attitudes, and values that distinguish you from your partner come to dominate your thoughts and communication
Differentiating stage
When circumscribing becomes so severe that almost no safe controversial topics remain, communication slows to a standstill, and your relationship enters the
Stagnating stage
One or both of you decide that you no longer can be around each other, and you begin distancing yourself physically
Avoiding stage
Couples might discuss the past, present, and future of the relationship
Terminating stage
Refers to using communication and supportive behaviors to sustain a desired relationship status and level of satisfaction
Relational maintenance
Is defined as an act that goes against expectations of a romantic relationship and, as a result, causes pain to a partner
Romantic betrayal
A protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship
Jealousy
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
Wedging
The violation of one’s independence and privacy by a person who desires an intimate relationship
Relational intrusion
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
Family
A wife, husband, and their biological or adopted children-was the most common family type in North America
Nuclear family
When relatives such as aunts, uncles, parents, children, and grandparents live together in a common household, the result is
Extended family
In which at least one of the adults has a child or children from a previous relationship
Stepfamily
Consist of two un married, romantically involved adults living together in a household, with or without children
Cohabitating couples
Only one adult resides in the household, possessing sole responsibility as a caregiver for the children
Single-parent family
Our narrative accounts shared repeatedly within a family that retell historical events and are meant to bond the family together
Family stories
Two dimensions underlie the communication between family members
Family communication patterns theory
The degree to which families believe that communication should emphasize similarity or diversity in attitudes, beliefs, and values
Conformity orientation
Families high in both conversational and conformity are
Consensual families
Families high in conversation but low in conformity are
Pluralistic families
Are low on conversation and high on conformity
Protective families
Families low in both conversation and conformity are
Laissez-faire families
Individuals create informational boundaries by carefully choosing the kind of private information they reveal and the people with whom they share it
Communication privacy management theory
The degree to which family members are encouraged to participate in on restrained interaction about a wide array of topics
Conversation orientation
The conditions governing what family members can talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who should have access to family-relevant information
Family privacy rules
Loyalty conflicts that arise when a coalition is formed, uniting one family member with another against a third person
Triangulation
Where one or both parents allocate an unfair amount of valuable resources to one child over others
Parental favoritism
Hostile interactions between parents and the household
Interparental conflict
Emotions, affects, and mood from one parental relationship (spillover) into the broader family-disrupting children’s sense of emotional security
Spillover hypothesis
Is a voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking
Friendship
Communal friends try to get together as often as possible, and they provide encouragement and emotional support to one another during times of need
Communal friendship
Agentic friends of value sharing time together-but only if they’re available and have no other priorities to handle at the moment
Agentic friendship
Behaving in ways that convey understanding, acceptance, and support for a friends valued social identities
Identity support
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
Valued social identities
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
Cross-category friendships
General principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within friendship relationships
Friendship rules
The participants engage in sexual activity, but not with the purpose of transforming the relationship into a romantic attachment
FWB relationships
Any affiliation you have with a professional Peer, supervisor, subordinate, or mentor can be considered a
Workplace relationship
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
Organizational networks
Group of coworkers linked solely through email, social networking sites, Skype and other online services
Virtual networks
Dense networks of coworkers who share the same workplace values and broader like attitudes
Workplace cliques
Is it supportive, warm, and welcoming? Detached, cool, and unfriendly? Somewhere in between? This overreaching emotional quality of a workplace is known as
Organizational climate
The environment is on friendly, rigid, and unsupportive of workers professional and professional needs
Defense climate
Describe the workplace as warm, open, and supportive
Supportive climate
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
Cyberslacking
Are most meaningful and intimate workplace relationships are those with our_______, people holding positions of organizational status and power similar to our own
Professional peers
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
Virtual peers
Relationships between coworkers of different organizations statuses are called______, and they provide the structural foundation on which most organizations are built
Mixed-status relationships
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
Upward communication
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
Advocacy
Having formal authority in an organization gives you freedom in the messages you use when interacting with subordinates, known as
Downward communication
Is the repeated unethical and unfavorable treatment of one or more persons by others in the workplace
Workplace bullying
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)
sexual harassment
