COMMUNICATIONS CHAPTER 10

Sadie and Sara, who are twins, are going off to college together. They are quarreling and upset with each other because Sadie wants to room with her sister, but Sara would like to have a roommate assigned by the university. On which dimension of dialectical tension are the sisters misaligned?

a. Autonomy-connection

Which one of the following is NOT one of the broad stages of a romantic relationship?

a. Reinforcing

Separation is one way to address competing needs in a relationship. Which of the following statements about separation is true?

a. Separation is generally the least satisfying of the relationship strategies.

Both men and women misrepresent themselves in posting online profiles.

a. True

Compared with face-to-face relationships, online relationships tend to form more rapidly.

a. True

One of the greatest problems for long-distance commitments is the unrealistic expectations about interaction when partners are geographically together.

a. True

Same-sex couples tend to share a more equitable distribution of household chores than heterosexual couples.

a. True

That which we invest in building and maintaining a relationship cannot be recovered.

a. True

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for dealing with dialectical tension in a relationship?

b. CoordinatioN

A moment that moves a relationship away from intimacy is called a turning point, and a moment that moves it toward intimacy is called a pivot point.

b. False

Although rules for romantic relationships vary according to culture, friendship rules tend to be universal.

b. False

Friends of the road will be with us wherever our journey in life takes us.

b. False

Often the first sign a relationship is in trouble is when one or both partners communicates with individuals outside the relationship.

b. False

People who desire openness in a relationship enjoy sharing the relationship with numerous others, including friends and family members.

b. False

Which of the following statements about the distribution of investments in family relationships is NOT true?

b. Men are more likely to be the primary breadwinners.

Intimate partner violence is a cyclical, escalating pattern of explosion, remorse, honeymoon, and __________.

b. tension

People who build a friendship first and then slowly transition it into a relationship

b. usually avoid idealizing the other person.

Which of the following are considered to be investments we make into personal relationships?

d. All of these

According to the matching hypothesis, which of the following sayings explains romantic attraction?

d. Birds of a feather flock together.

Nan and Casey have gotten to know each other by engaging in casual conversation in the locker room after their yoga class. Now they have made plans to get together for coffee. This new development can be described as

d. a turning point.