week 11

Question 1

What are relationship maintenance mechanisms?

Answer 1

the strategic
actions people take to sustain
their partnerships.

Question 2

Cognitive maintenance mechanism: Cognitive interdependence

Answer 2

Couples think of themselves as a unit.
Use pronouns such as we, us, and ours

Question 3

What is positive illusions?

Answer 3

Partners idealize one another.

Question 4

Perceived superiority is what

Answer 4

People consider their relationships to be better than most

Question 5

Maintaining and enhancing relationships: Inattention to alternatives

Answer 5

Committed partners pay less attention to the other
potential partners that are available to them.

Question 6

What is derogation of tempting alternatives

Answer 6

Judging attractive rivals as less desirable than others think them to be

Question 7

Behavioural maintenance mechanism: Willingness to sacrifice

Answer 7

Committed people often make various personal sacrifices,
doing things they would prefer not to do, or not doing
things that they would like to do

Question 8

Michelangelo phenomenon?

Answer 8

Committed lovers also promote their partners’ growth by
supporting their development of desired new skills and
endorsing their acceptance of promising new roles and
responsibilities.

Question 9

Accommodation:

Answer 9

Committed partners also tend to swallow minor mistreatment
from their partners without fighting back.

Question 10

Maintaining relationships: Self-control

Answer 10

§ The ability to withstand temptation,
manage impulses, and do the right
thing are also important.

Question 11

maintenance of relationship: Play

Answer 11

Committed partners find ways to
engage in novel, challenging, exciting,
and pleasant activities together.

Question 12

Enhancing relationships: Savouring

Answer 12

§ Couples are more satisfied when
they pay attention to and enjoy
shared pleasures.

Question 13

Enhancing relationships: Rituals

Answer 13

§ Committed partners develop
familiar routines that become
traditions and symbolize and
reinforce the partners’ identity as
a couple.

Question 14

Staying content: 4 things

Answer 14

Positivity, assurances, sharing tasks, openness

Question 15

Staying content: positivity

Answer 15

Contented partners strive to be polite and cheerful to one
another.

Question 16

Staying content: assurances

Answer 16

Contented partners continue to announce their love,
commitment, and regard for each other.

Question 17

Staying content: sharing tasks.

Answer 17

Contented partners do their fair share of household
chores.

Question 18

staying content: openness

Answer 18

Contented partners share their thoughts and feelings with one
another.

Question 19

Different therapeutic approaches vary regarding:

Answer 19

The focus on problematic behaviour, thoughts, or feelings.
* The focus is on the partners’ individual difficulties or those of the couple.

Question 20

Behavioural approach: traditional behavioural couple therapy

Answer 20

focuses on the couple’s
present interactions and seeks to replace any negative and
punishing behaviour with more gracious and generous actions.

Question 21

Cognitive-behavioural couple therapy:

Answer 21

seeks to change various
aspects of the ways partners think about their partnership

Question 22

Behavioural approach: Integrative behavioural couple therapy, tries to teach troubled partners to

Answer 22

accept the
incompatibilities, they cannot
change.

Question 23

techniques for integrative behavioural couple therapy

Answer 23

1) Empathic joining, 2) unified
detachment, 3) tolerance building

Question 24

Emotionally focused couple therapy seeks to train partners to treat each other

Answer 24

in ways that allow them to feel safe, loved, and
securely connected.

Question 25

emotionally focused couple therapy primarily focuses on the emotions the

Answer 25

partners experience as
they seek acceptance from one another

Question 26

insight-oriented couple therapy

Answer 26

seeks to free partners of some
of the problematic emotional baggage they carry from prior
relationships.

Question 27

Common features of couple therapy:

Answer 27

Each provides reasonable explanation for a couple of troubles

each offers hope

each increases more effective and more advantageous behaviour