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| 1. Physical 2. Social 3. Task 4. Proximity 5. Reinforcement 6. Similarity 7. Complimentary |
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| 1. Initiating 2. Experimenting 3. Intensifying 4. Bonding 5. Differentiating 6. Cirumscribing 7. Stagnating 8. Avoiding 9. Terminating |
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| Why We Enter Relationships? |
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| • Preserve happiness and health, prevent isolation, meet needs for inclusion, control and affection, serves as a behavioral anchor, provides communication conduits and helps us maintain our sense of worth |
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| seek to be with others continually |
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| increases as we exhibit similar preferences for dress and begin to act, speak, and think more alike and become more willing to share relation time, a car or a bank account. We become a package with our significant others |
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| the act of willingly making known to others information about yourself |
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| we expect to experience self-disclousre in a relationship |
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| measure of how many topics you discuss with another individual |
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| measure of how central the topics discussed are to your self-concept and how much you reveal about yourself and your feelings in the process |
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| the theory that states that the relationship we share typically begin with relatively narrow breadth and shallow depth and develop both over time |
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| a model containing four panes that open area, the blind area, the hidden area and the unknown area, that is used to explain the roles that self-awareness and self-disclosure play in relationship building |
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| being near in space, time or relationship |
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| talk about the way we talk to one another (communication about communication) |
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| we and our partner need to feel equally committed to preserving the relationship that we can trust one another, that neither party is taking advantage of the other, and that the resources we have are being shared equitably |
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| communication that tells another person that he or her self image is affirmed |
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| Gender and intimacy/distance |
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| Men define intimacy in terms of what two people DO together as women define it in terms of what they TALK ABOUT |
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| work that is needed when relationship fails to satisfy |
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| 1.• Nuclear Family- one that includes a mother, father and one/more children (traditional) 2. • Blended Family- 2 adults (gay,lesbian,heterosexual) and children (biological/adoptive) from one or both of the adults previous marriages 3. • Single-Parent Family-mother/father who was formerly married, divorced is solely responsible for a biological/adoptive child 4. • Live-In couples-different/same sex individuals live together 5. • Integrated families-parents or children are different races or religions 6. • Boomerang Families-families containing adult children who the family thought had left permanently but returns home 7. • Commuter Families-composed of one or more members who commute from a primary residence to work location in a distance city and remain there for a period of time |
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| an approach to communicate that stresses the interaction of all elements |
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| Characteristics of families |
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| perform roles, have responsibilities, share a past, present and future, share living spaces, and have rules |
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| a map of family relationships and connections |
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| Subordinates in the work place |
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| someone who receives orders and reports to another person |
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| Reflective thinking process |
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| a problem-solving system designed to encourage critical inquiry |
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| a dysfunction in which some group members attempt to protect the group’s harmony by exerting irrational pressures on one or more members so that the voicing of genuine opinions is suppressed |
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| Culture and the workplace |
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| many Americans act as participative ( act as guides to team members) leadership where other people may act authoritarian (dominating and directive) |
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| stereotypes of women- as sex objects, as mothers, as children. Men need to protect women, male need to support of being sympathetic towards women and they need to supervise. Stereotypes of men- as sturdy (tough), fighters (training they need to be competitive), breadwinners (earn primary wages to support their family). |
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