Textbook Chapter 8

Question 1

What is relationship maintenance?

Answer 1

routine behaviours and strategies partners develop to help make sure their relationship will continue

Question 2

What is the intimacy process model?

Answer 2

provides a framework for thinking about intimacy in the sense that the daily exchanges between partners can be understood as either deepening or weakening the feelings on understanding validation, and caring that characterize their commitment

Question 3

What are 3 things involved in the intimacy process model?

Answer 3

interpretive filters

emotional and behavioural response

motives, needs, goals, and fears

Question 4

What is empathy?

Answer 4

capacity to understand and share another person’s thoughts and feelings

Question 5

What is a key feature of effective support and higher quality relationships?

Answer 5

a partner’s attentive listening, particularly when the mate is experiencing a lot of stress

Question 6

In a diary study following daily conversations for 42 days, increased self-disclosure predicted what?

Answer 6

better perceived partner responsiveness, which in turn predicted stronger feelings of closeness

Question 7

The self expansion model is based on the “typical honeymoon-then-years-of-blandness-problem”. What are the 2 assumptions of this model?

Answer 7

regardless of relationship status, people naturally want to increase their capacity and effectiveness as individuals to achieve their goals

intimate relationships are a common way people attempt to enhance their identity and expand what they are capable of

Question 8

A key idea in developing relationships is that partners typically disclose a lot of personal info, feel intense sense of connection and wonder about future together. This is a time when the partners are expanding their selves at a rapid rate, gaining knowledge, feeling an increase in self-efficacy, and including the other in the self. What happens to this period?

Answer 8

Partners already know a lot about each other, opportunities for further self expansion tend to diminish. Emotional highs and lows become less extreme

Question 9

What is social integration?

Answer 9

stronger social ties and interconnections

research shows strong social integration promotes longer, healtheir lives

Question 10

Those with more social contacts have faster rates of recovery from

Answer 10

coronary artery disease and coronary bypass surgery

Question 11

What is social support?

Answer 11

conceptualized most generally as responsiveness to another’s needs and, more specifically, as acts that communicate caring; that validate the other’s worth, feelings, or actions, or that facilitate adaptive coping with problems through the provision of info, assistance, or tangible resources

Question 12

Newlyweds who expeirence more emotiona and practical support report

Answer 12

increased relationship satisfaction years later

Question 13

What is visible support?

Answer 13

recipient knows that have received, can be costly to the recipients self esteem

Question 14

What is invisible support?

Answer 14

recipient does not notice (completing one of the recipients chores without telling them, make recipient life easy, 2 cups coffee (you and partner). BETTER for recipients emotional state when it is relatively invisible

Question 15

What are 4 factors that effects whether one partner will forgive the other for a transgression or not?

Answer 15

seriousness of offense

personality of the victim

qualities of the apology

qualities of the relationship

Question 16

Forgiveness for significant betrayals progress through 3 stages:

Answer 16

impact stage: partner learns of transgression and begin to recognize the effect it has on them

meaning: some understanding

moving on stage: victim realizes further hostility is not productive