chapter 7 QQ

Autonomy is the desire to link your actions and decisions with your partner.

F

Topical segmentation is the strategy of compromising between the desires of one person and desires of the other.

F

Decreased communication is an initial sign of relationship decline.

T

Originality, freshness, and uniqueness in your own or your partner's behavior or in the relationship is referred to as novelty.

T

sometimes a relationship may deteriorate simply because the partners are not vigilant in doing what is necessary to maintain the relationship at its current level.

T

A relationship with people whom you share a high degree of commitment, trust, interdependence, and disclosure is called

intimate

An intimate relationship in which the partners are not sexually attracted to each other or do not act on an attraction they feel is called

platonic

The Johari window is a tool for examining the

relationship between disclosure and feedback in a relationship

When romantic relationship turns into friendships, best friends become casual friends, and marriages continue on friendly or business-like terms because of shared values on child-rearing, this is an example of

relationship transformation

Which of the following is a strategy in managing dialectical tensions in relationships?

when a relationship turns into something else