Exam 12: Relationships With Friends

In your office are several copyeditors who are not only your professional peers but also your friends. You share both professional and personal information with them, and sometimes you eat lunch with them. What type of peer relationship do you have with them?

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -Friendships that cross demographic lines.

Which of the following methods do friends use to cope with sexual attraction?

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -Principles that prescribe appropriate communication and behavior within a friendship.

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -Friendships between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or queer people and straight men or women.

Information peers are those who have a similar status to us but with whom we communicate only about work-related content.

If a friendship is to survive geographic separation, the friends should focus on their individual futures and not their shared history.

Explain the elements that distinguish a best friend from a close friend.

Identify three types of peer relationships.

What's the difference between communal and agentic friendships?

What is the most common reason behind failed FWB relationships?

Having close cross-sex friendships is a relatively recent trend in the United States.

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -Rare persons who become best friends in the workplace.

How are friendships different from other relationships?

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -Friendships with members of the opposite sex or gender.

Collegial peers are coworkers whom we consider friends and with whom we can disclose both work and personal matters.

Friendships are similar to other personal relationships in that they're difficult to break off.

Match the concept, term, or theory with its correct response or definition. -People who hold positions of organizational status and power similar to your own.

A key aspect of friendship is that it is a voluntary relationship.

What is an FWB relationship?