Exam 7: Maintaining Our Changing Relationships

When using the neutralization strategy, relationship partners learn to look at the dialectic a new way and change the narrative to eradicate the tension.

Relationships are not necessarily voluntary or involuntary for their duration--voluntary relationships can be made involuntary and vice versa.

If you and your friend solve the relational dialectic by going to your favorite restaurant every Thursday and his favorite restaurant every Saturday, you are using the strategy of:

What is a relational turning point that you or someone you know has encountered that may seem unusual? Why are relational turning points so subjective? Are there any that you think are universal?

According to the centrifugal perspective, there are certain costs involved in keeping a relationship together and healthy.

Debbie and Marta both lost a spouse to cancer and became friends through their grief support group. Based on this link, their primary relationship-maintaining behavior is likely:

Craig and Sofia were chosen for the same task force at work. During that time, they became friends. After the task force completed their assignment, Craig and Sofia began to date. Which of the following is true?

If partners in a relationship have a dinner party with their friends from each of their respective workplaces in order to expand their collective group of friends, this is the relationship-maintaining behavior of:

Ciera really liked Joe and wanted to date him exclusively, but they hadn't talked about it. Ciera considered it a _______ when she heard him refer to her as his "girlfriend" to one of his friends.

In the _______ conflict pattern, both parties get some of what they want.

Research has shown that distal college relationships are much more likely to end than other relationships.

Relational maintenance entails:

Which of the following is NOT an example of a relationship-maintaining behavior?

Zhou is a marketing manager in her company. Her boyfriend Lou has just been hired there as an assistant. At company functions, relative to Lou, Zhou has:

James and Shaunice have been dating for two years while in college. Before James graduates, Shaunice takes a job 200 miles away, but they decide not to break up. They are carrying on a _______ relationship.

Lynnette likes to go out with her friends from time to time, but her boyfriend Harold wants to spend all his time with Lynnette. To make him happy, Lynnette decides to stop going out with her friends and spends every night at home with Harold. This is the strategy of:

Priya hates superhero movies, but she sees all of them with her boyfriend because he loves them. This is an example of:

Because the partners are acquainted and have mutual regard for one another, friends-with-benefits relationships are considered part of long-term sexual behaviors.

Which of the following is true of power?

Do you think some relationship-maintaining behaviors are more important than others? If so, why? What behaviors are most prominent in your close relationships?