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WGU C180 exam 3 with |! |! |! |! |!




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close relationships - Correct answer ✔>endure over time and involve
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interdependent partners who satisfy each other's needs for connection and
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inclusion, feel and emotional attachment to each other and enact unique
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communication patterns |! |!




>a relationship is a process, not a thing
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role of communication in close relationships - Correct answer ✔>initiate
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>maintain

>repair

>terminate



dialectics theory - Correct answer ✔>focuses on the tensions relational
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partners feel |!




>tensions are a result of opposing desires
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>tensions are a part of healthy relationships
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*RELATIONAL DIALECTICS:* |!




*>autonomy and connection* |! |!




---->Ex. Robert feels that he and Nina would be closer if they did more things
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together, yet he also like the fact that each of them has independent interests
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,----> After spending a week together on a backpacking trip, Mike and Ed get
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back to campus and don't call or see each other for several days
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*>novelty and predictability* |! |!




----> Ex. Erin and Mike want to take a vacation and are undecided whether
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to return to a place they know and like or to go somewhere new and different
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---->Ex. Danny feels he and kate have fallen into routines in how they spend
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time together. On one hand, he like the steady rhythm they have. On the
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other hand, it seems boring.
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*>openness and closedness/ protection* |! |! |!




Jennie wants to tell her friend, Anne, about her problems with school, but
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Jennie also wants to keep her academic difficulties private
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systems theory - Correct answer ✔>compares relationships to systems
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> provides an overall impression of how relationships work
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>compares relationships to systems in 5 important ways: |! |! |! |! |! |! |!




*1. Wholeness:* the who is different than the sum of its parts
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*2. Interdependence:* members depend on and influence each other, what
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affects one person affects everyone in the system
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*3. Hierarchy:* Relationships embedded in other relational systems (couples
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embedded in bigger families; siblings embedded in the immediate family)
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, *4. Openness:* influence from forces outside the family (e.g., media,
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children's peers, the economy) |! |! |! |!




*5. Calibration:* actions we take to maintain stability in systems/relationships
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features of relational development - Correct answer ✔*>disclosure - greater
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breadth and depth* |! |!




*> Unique behaviors
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----> Inside jokes, special greetings, use of slang, pet names
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*> Hesitant vs. spontaneous communication
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----> early in the relationship you might give more forethought of when to
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say something and what---> over time, we tend to do that much less
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frequently, we settle into more spontaneous communication
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Stage Model: Stages of coming together - Correct answer ✔*1. initiating*
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----> when people notice each other
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*2. Experimenting*
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----> people get acquainted, engage in small talk, kind of like an audition
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----> social media impacts this stage because many people use social media to
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get to know someone and find stuff out about them, people may not want to
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tell someone that they were on their social media
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