Real Comm Chapter 6 w/ Narration
- 1. Developing and Maintaining Relationships
- 2. Explain key aspects of interpersonal relationships Understand how and why we form relationships Understand that every relationship has advantages and disadvantages
- 3. Consider how people in relationships choose to divulge or withhold personal information Outline the predictable stages of most relationships
- 5. The exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages between two people who have a relationship and are influenced by their partner’s messages
- 6. A web of relationships that connect individuals to one another
- 7. Family Small social group bound by ties of blood, civil contract, and a commitment to care for one another
- 8. Friendship ◦ Close and caring relationship between two people ◦ Perceived as mutually satisfying and beneficial
- 9. Romantic Relationships ◦ Love ◦ Intimacy
- 10. Online Relationships ◦ Virtual relationships ◦ Hyperpersonal communication
- 11. Companionship Stimulation Achieving goals Proximity Physical attraction Similarity
- 12. Costs and rewards ◦ Social exchange of costs and benefits ◦ Rewards Extrinsic Instrumental Intrinsic ◦ Costs
- 13. Reducing Uncertainty ◦ Uncertainty reduction theory ◦ Monitoring ◦ Proactive Strategies ◦ Indirect Strategies
- 14. Dialectical Tensions ◦ Relational dialectics theory ◦ Autonomy vs. Connection ◦ Openness vs. Closedness ◦ Predictability vs. Novelty
- 15. Social Penetration Theory (SPT) How relationships move from superficial levels to levels of intimacy
- 16. Communication Privacy Management Theory (CPM) ◦ We own private information ◦ We control that information
- 17. Strategic Topic Avoidance ◦ Maneuvering the conversation away from undesirable topics
- 19. Initiating Stage ◦ Make contact with another ◦ Many relationships don’t move beyond this stage
- 20. Exploratory Stage ◦ Small talk ◦ Uncertainty reduction
- 21. Intensification Stage ◦ Personal self-disclosure ◦ Share affection verbally ◦ Pet names
- 22. Stable Stage ◦ Integrating or becoming one ◦ Bonding by sharing public messages about relationship
- 23. Declining Stage ◦ Uncertainty Events Interference Unmet expectations ◦ Relationship Repair Repair tactics
- 24. Termination Stage ◦ Passing away Relationship gradually fades ◦ Sudden death Unexpected termination for one partner
- 25. Reconciliation ◦ Spontaneous development ◦ Third-party mediation ◦ High affect ◦ Tacit persistence ◦ Mutual interaction ◦ Avoidance