Chapter 9 communication final

dialectical tensions

conflicts that arise when two opposing or incompatible forces exist simultaneously (managing dialectical tensions can form stronger relationships)

Dialectical perspectives

Communicators seek important but inherently incompatible goals through their relationship

Dialectical Perspectives on Relational Dynamics

Connection vs. autonomy, openness vs. privacy, predictability vs. novelty

Small talk typically occurs during the initiating stage of an interpersonal relationship. (T or F)

False

The circumscribing stage of interpersonal relationships involves total avoidance of the other

False

social exchange theory

Rewards-cost=outcome

We are more attracted to people who are good t what they do but admit their mistakes(T or F)

True

Why we form relationships

appearance, similarity, complementarity, reciprocal attraction, competence, disclosure, proximity, rewards

Stages of relational development

initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding then to differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating