Exam 10: Managing Relationship Challenges

Obsessive relational intrusion is marked by such behaviors as unregulated self-disclosing, arranging coincidental meetings, and expressing a desire for physical contact.

Jim uses verbal threats against Toni as a way of maintaining dominance in their relationship.Jim's actions display which type of partner violence as defined in the text?

De-escalation is an indirect termination strategy.

Ellie wants to break up with Kevin, but doesn't have the heart to tell him, so she starts criticizing things about him, like how sloppy and lazy he is and how his friends annoy her.Ellie secretly, and even somewhat unconsciously, hopes that Kevin will take the hint and ask Ellie to break up with him.Ellie's approach to ending this relationship is an example of the indirect strategy of cost escalation.

Seemingly out of the blue, Harriot comes home from work one day and says to her partner Sherry, "I've found someone else.I'm moving out tomorrow." The type of breakup this example represents is

The two general categories of reasons people are deceptive are

When Maria accuses John of cheating on her, John admits that he did go out with Angela but that he only did so to help her through a difficult time and that Maria shouldn't worry about it.John's account is most appropriately labeled a(n)

Gay and lesbian couples engage in the same kinds of relational maintenance activities as heterosexual couples.

If all four signs of communication behaviors that indicate increasing problems in a marriage are consistently present, the chance a couple will eventually divorce is ________ percent.