CHAPTER 10

Question 1

Conflict

Answer 1

A results of one person interfering with another person’s ability to pursue this or her goals

Question 2

Coding System

Answer 2

Any one of several schemes researchers use for classifying observed behaviors

Question 3

Affect

Answer 3

Feeling or emotional expression; the emotional component of verbal and nonverbal communication

Question 4

Structural Model of Marital Interaction

Answer 4

The idea that 3 areas of behavior distinguish happy and unhappy couples when they are trying to resolve a relationship problem

Question 5

What are the 3 behaviors in the Structural Model of Marital Interaction?

Answer 5

The positivity and negativity of their behaviour

The amount of predictability of behaviors between them

Their ability to exit cycles of reciprocal negative behavior

Question 6

Cognitive Editing

Answer 6

The tendency in happy couples to respond to a partner’s negative behaviors neutrally or positively

Question 7

Reactivity Hypothesis

Answer 7

The idea that unhappy couples are more sensitive and responsible to immediate events in their relationship, regardless of whether the events are positive or negative

Question 8

Talk Table

Answer 8

A technique for studying couple interactions in which speakers rate the intent of their own messages and the impact of their partners’ messages, thus enabling researchers to identify sources of miscommunication

Question 9

Demand/Withdraw Pattern

Answer 9

A behavioral sequence common in distressed relationships in which one partner expresses a desire for change and the other partner resists change by disengaging from the interaction

Question 10

Polarized

Answer 10

Referring to polar opposites; in an intimate relationship, a couple is polarized when the two partners adopt opposing viewpoints in an argument

Question 11

Cross-Validation

Answer 11

A strategy in which a researcher takes a specific finding in one study and tries to repeat it precisely with a second sample of data