marriage and family chapter 7
assertiveness -
✅ In conflict situations, Assertiveness refers to attempts to satisfy our own concerns.
basic conflict -
✅ Pronounced disagreement about fundamental roles, tasks, and functions. Cf. nonbasic
conflict.
contempt -
✅ Verbal or nonverbal communication with another that conveys that the recipient is
undesirable. Contempt can be displayed verbally through insults, sarcasm, and mockery, or
nonverbally through such expressions as rolling one's eyes.
cooperativeness -
✅ In conflict situations, cooperativeness refers to attempts one makes to satisfy concerns
of others.
demand-withdraw communication -
✅ A communication pattern in which one person makes an effort to engage the other
person in a discussion of some issue of importance. The one raising the issue may criticize,
complain, or suggest a need for change in the other's behavior or in the relationship. In response, the
other party withdraws by either leaving the discussion, failing to reply, or changing the subject.
feedback -
✅ In communication, an ongoing process in which participants and their messages
produce a result and are subsequently modified by the result.
forgiveness -
✅ A reduction in negative feelings and an increase in positive feelings toward a
"transgressor" after a transgression, an attitude of goodwill toward someone who has done us harm,
and showing compassion and forgoing resentment toward someone who has caused us pain.
gatekeeping -
✅ A method of exerting control over and exercising power in such familial situations as
caring for children by making the decisions that determine how.
homogamous -
✅ Relationship characteristic wherein partners or spouses share common demographic or
personality characteristics
honeymoon effect -
✅ The tendency of newly married couples to overlook problems, including
communication problems.
hostile conflict -
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, ✅ A pattern of negative interaction wherein couples engage in frequent heated arguments,
call each other names and insult each other, display an unwillingness to listen to each other, and
lack emotional involvement with each other.
intimate zone -
✅ Spatial distance (0 to 18 inches in the U.S.) typically reserved for one's most intimate
relationships.
marital heterogamy -
✅ Marriage of two people from different backgrounds and/or with different demographic
characteristics.
marital paradigm -
✅ A set of images about how marriage ought to be done, "for better or worse".
nonbasic conflict -
✅ Pronounced disagreement about nonfundamental or situational issues. Cf. basic
conflict.
nonverbal communication -
✅ Communication of emotion by means other than words, such as touch, body
movement, and facial expression.
personal space -
✅ More common distance (1.5 to 4 feet in U.S.) at which people interact. One's personal
space is the spatial zone just beyond the intimate zone, within which one can access a variety of
sensory information (e.g., scent, touch, etc.)
power -
✅ The ability to exert one's will, influence, or control over another person or group.
principle of least interest -
✅ A theory of power in which the person less interested in sustaining a relationship has
the greater power.
proximity -
✅ Nearness to another in terms of both physical space and time.
relative love and need theory -
✅ A theory of power in which the person gaining the most from a relationship is the most
dependent.
resource theory of power -
✅ A theory of marital power that suggests that the person who is the sole or larger source
of financial resources gains and exercises decision making power.
self-silencing -
✅ Act of keeping quiet, not expressing one's feelings or venting one's frustrations.
trust -
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assertiveness -
✅ In conflict situations, Assertiveness refers to attempts to satisfy our own concerns.
basic conflict -
✅ Pronounced disagreement about fundamental roles, tasks, and functions. Cf. nonbasic
conflict.
contempt -
✅ Verbal or nonverbal communication with another that conveys that the recipient is
undesirable. Contempt can be displayed verbally through insults, sarcasm, and mockery, or
nonverbally through such expressions as rolling one's eyes.
cooperativeness -
✅ In conflict situations, cooperativeness refers to attempts one makes to satisfy concerns
of others.
demand-withdraw communication -
✅ A communication pattern in which one person makes an effort to engage the other
person in a discussion of some issue of importance. The one raising the issue may criticize,
complain, or suggest a need for change in the other's behavior or in the relationship. In response, the
other party withdraws by either leaving the discussion, failing to reply, or changing the subject.
feedback -
✅ In communication, an ongoing process in which participants and their messages
produce a result and are subsequently modified by the result.
forgiveness -
✅ A reduction in negative feelings and an increase in positive feelings toward a
"transgressor" after a transgression, an attitude of goodwill toward someone who has done us harm,
and showing compassion and forgoing resentment toward someone who has caused us pain.
gatekeeping -
✅ A method of exerting control over and exercising power in such familial situations as
caring for children by making the decisions that determine how.
homogamous -
✅ Relationship characteristic wherein partners or spouses share common demographic or
personality characteristics
honeymoon effect -
✅ The tendency of newly married couples to overlook problems, including
communication problems.
hostile conflict -
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, ✅ A pattern of negative interaction wherein couples engage in frequent heated arguments,
call each other names and insult each other, display an unwillingness to listen to each other, and
lack emotional involvement with each other.
intimate zone -
✅ Spatial distance (0 to 18 inches in the U.S.) typically reserved for one's most intimate
relationships.
marital heterogamy -
✅ Marriage of two people from different backgrounds and/or with different demographic
characteristics.
marital paradigm -
✅ A set of images about how marriage ought to be done, "for better or worse".
nonbasic conflict -
✅ Pronounced disagreement about nonfundamental or situational issues. Cf. basic
conflict.
nonverbal communication -
✅ Communication of emotion by means other than words, such as touch, body
movement, and facial expression.
personal space -
✅ More common distance (1.5 to 4 feet in U.S.) at which people interact. One's personal
space is the spatial zone just beyond the intimate zone, within which one can access a variety of
sensory information (e.g., scent, touch, etc.)
power -
✅ The ability to exert one's will, influence, or control over another person or group.
principle of least interest -
✅ A theory of power in which the person less interested in sustaining a relationship has
the greater power.
proximity -
✅ Nearness to another in terms of both physical space and time.
relative love and need theory -
✅ A theory of power in which the person gaining the most from a relationship is the most
dependent.
resource theory of power -
✅ A theory of marital power that suggests that the person who is the sole or larger source
of financial resources gains and exercises decision making power.
self-silencing -
✅ Act of keeping quiet, not expressing one's feelings or venting one's frustrations.
trust -
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