Exam 6: Communication in the Life Cycle of Relationships

Discuss an instance when you felt pulled by dialectical tensions.

One noted scholar, Boyd, describes us as living in a world of ________, in which public and private are much less separate than they once were.

Hurt feelings, conflict episodes, and jealousy are all _____ that can be found in a relationship.

Paul knows that he has difficulty distinguishing colors. He does not disclose this information to his friends. This information falls into the _____ quadrant of his Johari window

Do your relationship partners adhere to the guidelines for self-disclosure? Which ones do they not follow? How does that create tension in your relationships?

Tracy knows that Julie gets dark circles under her eyes when she is tired; Julie is not aware of this. The reaction to being tired would fall into the _____ quadrant of Julie's Johari window.

The relationship difference/dimension that explains how people who have been married for many years can finish each other's sentences is ___________.

The tension you feel at a specific point in time between sharing intimate ideas and the conflicting feelings of maintaining privacy is dialectic of integration.

Intimate or very personal self-disclosures should be made only at the end of a relationship.

One person's desire for consistency, reliability, and dependability often conflicts with another's desire for novelty.

Ethan may want Hayley to propose new dating activities such as sky-diving, but Hayley may be more comfortable operating in the routines of their normal dates. This tension is known as the dialectic of __________.

According to Thibaut and Kelley, people seek interaction situations in which their behaviors will yield an outcome of high reward and low cost.

Our need for inclusion leads us to express and receive love.

When two people engage in self-disclosure in a relationship, they may also engage in _________, a discussion of who else is allowed to co-own the information they are disclosing.

The state of a relationship in which people change from a pattern of sharing ideas and feelings to a pattern of mostly small talk is

Interpersonal difficulty that arises due to the violation of a privacy boundary is known as boundary turbulence.

Differences in the preferred level of self-disclosure between partners is a consideration in the dialectic of certainty.

Jean hasn't been feeling well, so she visits her doctor, who can't determine what's wrong with her and runs some tests. Jean's diagnosis falls under what quadrant of her Johari window?

The ______ function of communication in a relationship is sometimes described as the "thermometer" gauging the level of trust, intimacy, and control in a relationship.

Selecting one side of a relational contradiction and ignoring the other side is called temporal selection.