Purdue PSY 354 Exam 3
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1. Deception: Intentional behavior to create impression in recipient that deceiver knows is untrue
2. Lying: Knowingly making false statements
3. Why Lie: Self-Serving. Ward off embarrassment, guilt, obligation. Seek approval or material gain. Protect feelings
or advance interests
4. Deception Detection: Discrepancies and mismatches in verbal and nonverbal behavior. Lies shorter and
less detailed than truth typically
5. Dialectics: Opposing motivations within relationship that can never be entirely satisfied due to contradicting
one another
6. Dialectic Examples: Autonomy vs Connection, Openness vs Closedness, Stability vs Change, Integration vs
Separation
7. Dialectics Within the Relationship: These tensions last throughout lifetime of the relationship,
constantly fluctuating on both sides. Constant balancing is needed for least conflict, but conflict is always guaranteed
8. Levinger's Barrier Model: Attraction, alternatives, and barriers. Partner's stay together due to cost and
barriers of leaving current relationship
9. Attraction: Rewards a relationship offers and costs relationship has
10. Alternatives: Other options for person in relationship: other partners, single, occupational success
11. Barriers: Anything adding difficulty to leaving relationship: legal/social pressures, religious/moral constraints,
financial cost
12. Karney and Bradbury's Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model: Enduring Vulnera-
bilities, Adaptive Processes, Stressful Events. When stressful events occur, couple must adapt but ability to adapt is
dependent on vulnerabilities
13. Enduring Vulnerabilities: Bad family experiences, education, personality traits, social skills, or marriage
attitudes
14. Adaptive Processes: How people respond to stress
15. Stressful Events: Stressors that put strain on a marriage. Unemployment, illness, pregnancy, birth, parent-
ing.
16. PAIR Project: 30 year study of married couples and how they adapted their lives together. Enduring Dynamics,
Emergent Distress, Disillusionment
17. Enduring Dynamics: Spouses bring to marriages problem, incompatibilities, and vulnerabilities that
surface during marriage
18. Emergent Distress: Problematic behavior that destroys a couple begins after they marry
19. Disillusionment: Marriage starts with unrealistically positive views that slowly erode as reality sets in
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_i0mow8
1. Deception: Intentional behavior to create impression in recipient that deceiver knows is untrue
2. Lying: Knowingly making false statements
3. Why Lie: Self-Serving. Ward off embarrassment, guilt, obligation. Seek approval or material gain. Protect feelings
or advance interests
4. Deception Detection: Discrepancies and mismatches in verbal and nonverbal behavior. Lies shorter and
less detailed than truth typically
5. Dialectics: Opposing motivations within relationship that can never be entirely satisfied due to contradicting
one another
6. Dialectic Examples: Autonomy vs Connection, Openness vs Closedness, Stability vs Change, Integration vs
Separation
7. Dialectics Within the Relationship: These tensions last throughout lifetime of the relationship,
constantly fluctuating on both sides. Constant balancing is needed for least conflict, but conflict is always guaranteed
8. Levinger's Barrier Model: Attraction, alternatives, and barriers. Partner's stay together due to cost and
barriers of leaving current relationship
9. Attraction: Rewards a relationship offers and costs relationship has
10. Alternatives: Other options for person in relationship: other partners, single, occupational success
11. Barriers: Anything adding difficulty to leaving relationship: legal/social pressures, religious/moral constraints,
financial cost
12. Karney and Bradbury's Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model: Enduring Vulnera-
bilities, Adaptive Processes, Stressful Events. When stressful events occur, couple must adapt but ability to adapt is
dependent on vulnerabilities
13. Enduring Vulnerabilities: Bad family experiences, education, personality traits, social skills, or marriage
attitudes
14. Adaptive Processes: How people respond to stress
15. Stressful Events: Stressors that put strain on a marriage. Unemployment, illness, pregnancy, birth, parent-
ing.
16. PAIR Project: 30 year study of married couples and how they adapted their lives together. Enduring Dynamics,
Emergent Distress, Disillusionment
17. Enduring Dynamics: Spouses bring to marriages problem, incompatibilities, and vulnerabilities that
surface during marriage
18. Emergent Distress: Problematic behavior that destroys a couple begins after they marry
19. Disillusionment: Marriage starts with unrealistically positive views that slowly erode as reality sets in
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