Comm Test 3

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Question American English Answer American English
State in which each person's behaviors affect everyone else in the relationship
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Interdependence
Conflicts between two important but opposing needs or desires
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Dialetical tensions
Attraction to someone's abilities
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Task attraction
Theory that we form relationships when we think the effort will be worth it
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Predicted outcome value theory
Theory that people seek to form and maintain relationships in which the benefits outweigh the costs
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Social exchange theory
Theory predicting that a good relationship is one in which a person's ratio of costs and rewards is equal to that of the person's partner
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Equity theory
Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding
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Stages of relationship development
Differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating
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Stages of relationship dissolution
A behavior that violates an important expectation in a relationship
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Relational transgression
Theoretic model proposing that relationship commitment is a function of satisfaction, resources, and the perceived quality of alternatives
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Investment model of commitment processes
Passive (creeping), active (asking others), interactive (asking directly)
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Uncertainty reduction strategies
Role-limited interaction, friendly relations, moves towards friendship, nascent friendship, stabilized friendship, waning friendship
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Stages of friendships
Friendship stage where you think of each other as friends
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Nascent friendship
Type of couple that talks about disagreements openly and cooperatively
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Validating couple
Type of couple that talks about disagreements openly and competitively
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Volatile couple
Type of couple that deals with disagreements indirectly
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Conflict-avoiding couple
Type of couple that experiences frequent and intense conflict
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Hostile couple
The functions that individuals serve in the family system
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Family roles
Positions based on the structure of our relationships with others (father/mother/daughter/aunt)
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Family positions
Theory that explains how people manage the tension between privacy and disclosure
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Communication privacy management theory
Stand up for your friends and support them, offer resources to your friends, be enjoyable to be around, provide help w/o being asked, share common interests and viewpoints, be someone people can share thoughts and secrets to
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Jeff Hall's friendship rules
Personal criticisms, finances, household chores
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Most common conflict triggers
The expression of conflict through negative behaviors that ignore the underlying disagreement
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Indirect conflict
Expression of insults or attacks on another's self-worth
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Contemptuous behaviors
Tactics that cast the self as a victim and deny responsibility
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Defensive behaviors
When one feels incapable of engaging with the conversation any longer
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Flooded
The sender must know the info is false, is transmitting the info on purpose, and must be attempting to make the receiver believe the info
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Elements of deception
Forms of deception that involve fabricating info or exaggerating facts for the purpose of misleading others
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Acts of simulation
Forms of deception that involve omitting certain details that would change the nature of the story if they were known
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Acts of dissimulation
Outright lying
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Falsification
Inflating or overstating facts
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Exaggeration
Leaving out details of a story to create a false impression
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Omission
Expressing info that is so vague or ambiguous that it creates the impression it has communicated a message it hasn't actually conveyed (giving vague/ambiguous answers)
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Equivocation
Theory that having a truth bias is less cognitively demanding than being constantly on guard for deception
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Truth-default theory
The average ability to detect deception is around _
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55%

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