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Marriage Types (Cuber and Haroff) - correct answer ✔✔- Conflict-Habituated Relationship
- Devitalized Relationship
- Passive-Congenial Relationship
- Vital Relationship
- Total Relationship
Tasks for Couples - correct answer ✔✔- Establishing an identity as a married couple
- Defining marital boundaries
- Managing the household
- Managing the emotional climate
Establishing an identity as a married couple - correct answer ✔✔- establishing marital and family themes
- negotiation of marital roles
- evolving a congruence of conjugal identities
Defining marital boundaries - correct answer ✔✔- regulating distances with family and friends
- regulating distances within the new marriage
Managing the household - correct answer ✔✔- evolving housekeeping strategies
- managing finances with the new marital system
Managing the emotional climate - correct answer ✔✔- expressing intimacy and support
- developing a sexual script
- managing conflict
,Cohabitation - correct answer ✔✔Motivations to cohabitate:
- courtship process or marriage alternative
- delay of marriage
- contraceptive advances
- changing norms
- divorce rate
Same Sex Relationships - correct answer ✔✔Similarities with other sex relationships:
- lifestyle patterns and patterns of adjustment (the things we have to do to make stuff 'go')
- relationship quality correlates (issues of satisfaction)
- argument topics
- household maintenance tasks
Differences from other sex relationships:
- Social Contexts: (how people think about relationships as normal, as okay, as functional are all different
based on how we were raised)
- Greater positivity and acceptance leading to softer startup
- Increased levels of direct communication about relationship: when we are checking in on our
relationship, rather than making assumptions, we tend to do better with each other
- Gay partners report: more autonomy and fewer barriers to leaving
- Lesbian partners report: increased intimacy, autonomy, and equality
Communication - correct answer ✔✔Communication is a symbolic, transactional process that involves
creating and sharing meaning through consistent patterns of interaction
- communication is a process that can change overtime
- can also be a back and forth process
- can be one-sided (like seeing a billboard communicates to you but you cannot communicate back)
- symbolic bc we use different vocab than others (we are all unique)
, - can be verbal and non-verbal
- SHARED MEANINGS ARE IMPORTANT
- the same message can be given and received differently
- the ways we speak with each other in order to understand things is important
- the way we understand each other is important
Assumptions about Family Communication - correct answer ✔✔- is not random -- it has some patterns
- is transactional -- relationships and communication are circular not linear
- is impossible to not participate -- it is impossible to not participate in communication even if you are
being silent
Levels of Communication - correct answer ✔✔- there are two levels of communication:
- digital (content level): what is said, information that is shared, semantics
- analogical (relationship level): what it meant to us, feelings, movement, expression
Concepts of Communication - correct answer ✔✔- Digital
- Analogic
- Metamessage
- this is similar to an analogic relationship level
- the message about the message
- what are the rules about the messages that you are given
- Framing
- The headspace you are in, the relationship you have with this person, if you are having a good day
versus a bad day -- all of these impact the way we frame a message
- It is the meaning that we attribute to the message that we hear
- What are they saying about me?
- Subjective and Personal