COM 312 Test 1 with precise detailed solutions

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Conflict - correct answer✔✔An expressed struggle between at least two interdependent ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




parties, who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from others in
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achieving their goals. ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Key Elements of Conflict - correct answer✔✔1. Family
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2. Non-Platonic Relationships
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3. Platonic Relationships
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4. The Workplace
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What role does conflict play in relationships? - correct answer✔✔The way couples handle
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conflict is a great indicator as to how successful their relationship will be. Conflict is natural
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and plays a huge role in relationships. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




How does familial conflict impact children? - correct answer✔✔Conflict, like in relationships,
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is just as common in families. As a child grows up, they see how their older family members
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deal with conflict, and mirror it. If a child grows up with parents who avoid conflict, so will
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the child. If a child grows up with parents who are dominant, the child will most likely mimic
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that.
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Destructive Conflict - correct answer✔✔Destructive conflict is the kind of conflict that results ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




in danger, or having negative results.
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Four Horseman of Destructive Conflict - correct answer✔✔1. Criticizing
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2. Defensiveness
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3. Stonewalling||\\//||




4. Contempt ||\\//||

, Escalatory Spiral - correct answer✔✔Emotion laden and careless exchanges become worse
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and worse on both sides of the relationship.
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De-escalatory Spiral - correct answer✔✔Both parties retrieve from each other. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Avoidance Spiral - correct answer✔✔Active attempts by both parties to lessen dependence
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on each other.
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TRIP Goals - correct answer✔✔The types of goals seen in conflicts.
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T-opic

R-elationship

I-dentity

P-rocess



TOPIC goal - correct answer✔✔-The topic goal is the goal each party wants.
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-Concerns: Scarce resources, not enough of what people want is available, causing conflict.
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RELATIONSHIP goal - correct answer✔✔-What the parties in conflict are in relation to each ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




other.

-Concerns: sometimes the talk as "who are we to each other" never happens ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




-Meta-arguments arise (topics when the underlying issue is the relational aspect) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




IDENTITY goal - correct answer✔✔-"Who am I" in this interaction. The identity of each party.
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Face-saving comes into play.
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-Concerns: When one's identity is threatened, people become destructive and less flexible
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