Comm Test 3

State in which each person's behaviors affect everyone else in the relationship

Interdependence

Conflicts between two important but opposing needs or desires

Dialetical tensions

Attraction to someone's abilities

Task attraction

Theory that we form relationships when we think the effort will be worth it

Predicted outcome value theory

Theory that people seek to form and maintain relationships in which the benefits outweigh the costs

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

Equity theory

Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding

Stages of relationship development

Differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating

Stages of relationship dissolution

A behavior that violates an important expectation in a relationship

Relational transgression

Theoretic model proposing that relationship commitment is a function of satisfaction, resources, and the perceived quality of alternatives

Investment model of commitment processes

Passive (creeping), active (asking others), interactive (asking directly)

Uncertainty reduction strategies

Role-limited interaction, friendly relations, moves towards friendship, nascent friendship, stabilized friendship, waning friendship

Stages of friendships

Friendship stage where you think of each other as friends

Nascent friendship

Type of couple that talks about disagreements openly and cooperatively

Validating couple

Type of couple that talks about disagreements openly and competitively

Volatile couple

Type of couple that deals with disagreements indirectly

Conflict-avoiding couple

Type of couple that experiences frequent and intense conflict

Hostile couple

The functions that individuals serve in the family system

Family roles

Positions based on the structure of our relationships with others (father/mother/daughter/aunt)

Family positions

Theory that explains how people manage the tension between privacy and disclosure

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

Jeff Hall's friendship rules

Personal criticisms, finances, household chores

Most common conflict triggers

The expression of conflict through negative behaviors that ignore the underlying disagreement

Indirect conflict

Expression of insults or attacks on another's self-worth

Contemptuous behaviors

Tactics that cast the self as a victim and deny responsibility

Defensive behaviors

When one feels incapable of engaging with the conversation any longer

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

Elements of deception

Forms of deception that involve fabricating info or exaggerating facts for the purpose of misleading others

Acts of simulation

Forms of deception that involve omitting certain details that would change the nature of the story if they were known

Acts of dissimulation

Outright lying

Falsification

Inflating or overstating facts

Exaggeration

Leaving out details of a story to create a false impression

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)

Equivocation

Theory that having a truth bias is less cognitively demanding than being constantly on guard for deception

Truth-default theory

The average ability to detect deception is around _

55%