Chp 7

Question 1

Unique commitments between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by rules, Relational dialects, and surrounding contexts

Answer 1

Personal relationships

Question 2

Intensely positive feelings and desires for another person. Based on the rewards of involvement and is not equivalent to commitment

Answer 2

Passion

Question 3

A decision to remain in a relationship in spite of troubles, disappointments, sporadic boredom, and lulls in passion

Answer 3

Commitment

Question 4

Commitment grows out of ___

Answer 4

Investments

Question 5

Something out into a relationship that cannot be recovered should the relationship end

Answer 5

Investments

Question 6

Patterned ways of behaving and interpreting behavior

Answer 6

Rules

Question 7

__ __ define the meaning of various types of communication in personal relationships

Answer 7

Constitutive Rules

Question 8

__ __ Influence interaction by specifying when and with whom to engage in various kinds of communication

Answer 8

Regulative rules

Question 9

Opposing and continual tensions that are normal and personal relationships

Answer 9

Relational dialects

Question 10

Name 3 relational dialects

Answer 10

1) autonomy/connection
2) novelty/predictability
3) Open/closedness

Question 11

Name 4 ways intimates deal with dialectical tensions

Answer 11

1) Neutralization
2) separation
3) segmentation
4) reframing

Question 12

This involves balancing or finding a compromise between two dialectical poles

Answer 12

Neutralization

Question 13

This favors one need in a dialect and ignores the others

Answer 13

Separation

Question 14

When partners assign each need to certain’s spheres, issues, activities, or times

Answer 14

Segmentation

Question 15

This transcends the apparent contradiction between two dialectical polls and re-interpret them as not intention

Answer 15

Reframing

Question 16

Name five features of personal relationships

Answer 16

1) Uniqueness
2) committed
3) guided by rules
4) affected by contexts
5) influenced by relational dialects

Question 17

Name the three stages in which romance progresses

Answer 17

1) escalation
2) navigation
3) deterioration

Question 18

A private world of rules, understandings, and patterns of acting and interpreting that partners create to give meaning to their relationship; the nucleus of intimacy

Answer 18

Relational culture

Question 19

The responsibility for remembering, planning, and coordinating domestic work and child care. In general, women assume this responsibility for childcare and housework even if both partners share in actual tasks

Answer 19

Psychological responsibility

Question 20

four stages in cycle of violence

Answer 20

1) tension
2) explosion
3) remorse
4) Honeymoon