Exam 8: Relationships and Communication

Booty call relationship is a brief, possibly spontaneous casual sexual encounter.

About 75% of couples who meet online used a dating Web site.

People with high self-esteem seem to be more likely to use their partners' acceptance and approval as a way of maintaining their self-esteem when self-doubts arise.

Constructive communication tends to increase satisfaction with the relationship.

Discuss suggestions that can help a couple who find themselves at a communication impasse.

Describe rival focused communication.

Discuss how sex differences in jealousy support different theories.

Discuss the difference between normal jealousy and obsessional jealousy. Describe the effects jealousy may have on a relationship.

Discuss the difference between loneliness and solitude.

A basic part of improving relationships or lovemaking is asking partners to change their behavior.

Friends with benefits is a noncommitted, "casual" sexual relationship.

Describe how Tinder may be replacing dating with a hookup culture.

Describe avoidance in communication.

List some nonverbal exercises a couple can use to communicate their sexual likes and dislikes.

Sometimes it's necessary to delivery criticism negatively.

A non-committed "casual" sexual relationship in which a couple also does nonsexual things together is called __________.

Loneliness and solitude are synonymous.

Hookup sex increased the likelihood that __________.

It is not necessarily true that relationships come to an end when the partners cannot resolve their differences.

Discuss some of the characteristics that lonely people tend to have.