Exam 11: Creating Intimate Relationships

When Alistar responds, "Is there anything else I could do to improve my performance?" after his boss identifies three areas of work deficiency, Alistar is using a technique known as:

When "two people work out what they want, what they believe, what they hope for each other," Fulghum describes this as:

Which of the following stages is the first stage in the dissolving of an intimate relationship?

Sarah needs other people to make decisions for her. She interacts with people in the hopes that they will dominate her. Sarah has which of the following interpersonal needs?

Which is NOT a characteristic of communication norms in the mid-1970s to late 1980s (Kidd's vision 3)?

Braiker and Kelley believe that sharing episodes is unimportant because doing things together (behavioral interdependence) seldom leads to attitudinal and cognitive interdependence.

Brant Burleson and his colleagues have found that similarities in cognitive complexity are strongly related to attraction; if people have similar levels, even if these levels are low, they tend to be satisfied with the relationship.

Describe Duck's filtering theory of attraction. What kinds of characteristics make people attractive at each stage of filtering? Do you believe that people who have been eliminated by one filter can ever be reconsidered? Discuss.

Kitchen-sinking is not an effective way to deal with a conflict.

Which of the following was characteristic of the values that were associated with interpersonal communication in the mid 1960s-1970s (Kidd's vision 2)?

Which of the following is the first filter people use to evaluate each other's attractiveness?

Discuss how dating and romance have changed across time, using information from the two boxes in this chapter.

Which is true of the dating system named "calling"?

What kind of conditions lead to intimacy? Be sure to include Braiker and Kelley's research as well as some discussion of intimacy readiness.