Comm 201 Study Test 2

Front 1

uniqueness

Back 1

o Defined by people not activities
o Partners cannot be replaced

Front 2

Commitment

Back 2

o Decision to stay with relationship
o The basis of an enduring relationship
o Intention is to share the future together
o Investments
• What we put into the relationship that we could not retrieve if the relationship ends (time, energy feelings, money)
o Passion
• Intense feeling based on the rewards of involvement with another personal (emotional high)...

Front 3

• Relationship rules

Back 3

o Guide how partners communicate and interpret each other (often unspoken) –
o Define expectations of certain kinds of relationships
o Provide meanings of particular kinds of communication: silence= anger or hugs=affection
o Explain when/how/where communication is appropriate (Shall NOT rules)
o communicate and interpret... Expectation of kind of relationship... meaning to communication... appropriate communication

Front 4

• Relationships are affected by context

Back 4

o Surroundings influence interaction between people (Social circles, neighbors, family, or society)
o Culture defines social and legal status (i.e., marriage)
o Affect what we expect and how we communicate in relationship..

Front 5

• Relationship dialectics

Back 5

o Normal, opposing, and continuous tensions in close relationships
• 1. Autonomy/connection: Tension between independence (Separate) and closeness
• 2. Novelty/predictability: Tension between spontaneity and routine
• 3. Openness/closedness: Tension between approachable (candid) and privacy

Front 6

• Romantic relationships

Back 6

o 1. Escalating phase
o 2. Navigating phase
• Matching hypothesis
 Seek relationships with others who closely match our own values, attitudes, social background, and physical attractiveness
• Relationship culture
 Private world of rules, meanings, and patterns of interaction created for the relationship
 AKA Communication climate/emotional tone **TEST**
o 3. Deterioration
• Dyadic processes
 Breakdown of established patterns and rules
• Social support processes
 Tell others about problems bcause couple lacks ability to restore intimacy
• Grave dressing processes **ANSWER**
 Individually try to make sense of the relationship
• What it meant, why it failed, how it affected us **QUESTION**

Front 7

Friendships

Back 7

• Begin: Role-limited interactions
• Friendly relations
o Common ground and interests to develop good friendship
• Moving toward friendship
o Moving beyond social roles
• Nascent Friendship
o Increased involvement and caring
• Stabalized friendship stage
o Assumption of continuity
o Assume they’ll keep seeing each other
• Waning friendship
o One or both people cease to be committed to their relationship

Front 8

• Equity theory

Back 8

o We are happier when there is fairness