Exam 7: Analyzing Your Conflicts

Which of the following terms best describes a marriage where both partners accept a conventional, calm, ordered marriage that maintains little conflict?

The most important part of assessing a conflict is figuring out who "started" it.

Labeling people in systems (workplaces, families, friends) helps each person predict how others will behave.

All of the following are key concepts to Systems Theory except:

Which of the following stages of conflict is characterized by parties engaged in serious power struggles, polarization and lack of information-sharing?

Caitlin ran to her mother to tell on her brother, Sam. Caitlin said that Sam hurt her hand when they passed each other on the stairwell. Understanding conflict, Caitlin's mom decided to sit down with both of the children and ask them what happened, starting from when they saw each other on the stairs. She found out that Caitlin, in fact, hurt her hand when she hit Sam. Sam did nothing in return! Which principle of the system theory is Caitlin's mom recognize?

A repetitive loop of observable communication with a redundant outcome is called:

"Intimate-aggressive" couples can be satisfactory for the individual parties, but they often engage in aggression that is too mean.