Interpersonal Relationships

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Progression from social to psychological data happens in?

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United States and in most European cultures

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The individual's group membership is always important; it never recedes into the background?

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Asian and African cultures

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A person's group membership (the person's social data)-even in the closest intimate relationship- is always important, than?

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The person's individual or psychological characteristics

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Six-Stage Model of Relationships

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1.Contact
2.Involvement
3.Intimacy
4.Deterioration
5.Repair
6.Dissolution

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1.Contact

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(Initial)
First point where you really make contact.
"Sub stages"

1.Perceptual contact
-aware that person exists.

2.Interaction contact
-pick up lines

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2.Involvement

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"Sub Stages"

1.Testing
-to see if you like them, right person, whatever?
Relationships are defined by how you react to things that happen in relationships

2.Intensifying
-things get really intense really quickly. It's real when it's really not. It's emotions, hormones, etc.

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3.Intimacy

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Intense period goes by; you start getting into the real stuff. Sharing real intimate moments with each other.

Interpersonal commitment- two of you commitment to each other

Social bonding- commitment and let you commitment be known to be world; network of friends, introduce to family.

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4.Deterioration Stage

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Intrapersonal dissatisfaction:
Things aren't the same as they used to be. Just not the same.
Move into interpersonal dissatisfaction.

Dissatisfaction leaks out and the relationship begins to suffer. Things are falling apart.

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5.Repair Stage

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Interpersonal repair.
Try to fix what was going wrong.
End of the relationship or filter back around to interpersonal communicate; intimacy and we commitment to each other.

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6.Disillusion

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Going to end.
Interpersonal separation.
Social public separation.
It's over for good.
Tell everyone in the world;
It's harder to get back in it.
Takes place at different times
You are going to go threw repair and disillusion

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Knapp's Model of Relationship Stages

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Stages:

First 5 stages refer to the processes of coming together and moving toward greater connection and intimacy
1.Initiation
2.Experimenting
3.Intensifying
4.Integrating
5.Bonding

Next 5 stages refer to the stages of coming apart and moving away from intimacy
6.Differentiating
7.Circumscribing
8.Stagnating
9.Avoiding
10.Terminating