Chapter 7: Personal Relationships

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. This filter provides clues regarding the way in which an individual thinks.

a. Emotional/unemotional

b. Beliefs/values

c. Conformity/nonconformity

d. Behavior/nonverbal

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. People who do not like confrontation or open discussions are likely to have difficulty with this process of a relationship breakdown.

a. Intrapsychic

b. Dyadic

c. Social process

d. Grave dressing

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Prospective relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs) would be most likely to indicate that one partner ______.

a. is physically absent from the relationship

b. has returned to the relationship

c. wants the other to leave the relationship

d. is about to be absent from the relationship

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Introspective RCCUs would be most likely to indicate that one partner ______.

a. is physically absent from the relationship

b. has returned to the relationship

c. wants the other to leave the relationship

d. is about to be absent from the relationship

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Retrospective RCCUs would be most likely to indicate that one partner ______.

a. is physically absent from the relationship

b. has returned to the relationship

c. wants the other to leave the relationship

d. is about to be absent from the relationship

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. According to Duck’s Relationship Filtering Model, people pay attention to cues about others in the following sequence:

a. attitudes/personality, roles, behavior, physical appearance

b. roles, behavior, physical appearance, attitudes/personality

c. behavior, physical appearance, attitudes/personality, roles

d. physical appearance, behavior, roles, attitudes/personality

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Duck’s Relationship Filtering Model suggests that you use others’ physical appearance to screen out people who ______.

a. do not look as if they would see the world the way you do

b. vote differently than you do

d. are likely to be good relationship partners

d. have had multiple relationships

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Dialectics involving a relational unit and other relational units or people within their social networks are ______.

a. internal

b. external and internal

c. internal, then external

d. external

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The internal dialectic that focuses on the need for predictability and routine in a relationship and the need for novelty and change in a relationship is ______.

a. connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. openness–closedness

c. certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. romantic-platonic.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Communication in the resurrection phase typically ______.

a. is irreversible

b. involves reflection of what went wrong in the relationship

c. is acknowledgment that all hope is lost

d. is characterized by equity

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Weiss’s “provisions of relationships,” or the areas where relationships give us something special, needed, or valued, include ______.

a. belonging and a sense of alliance

b. emotional disintegration

c. challenges to our worth and value

d. lack of opportunity to communicate about ourselves

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Social relationships are characterized by ______.

a. irreplaceability of the other person

b. uniqueness of the tasks performed by the other person

c. uniqueness of the social function performed by the other person

d. interchangeability of the other person

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The internal dialectic that focuses on the need to be with a relational partner and the need to be away from a relational partner in a relationship is ______.

a. connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. openness–closedness

c. certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. revelation--concealment

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The internal dialectic that focuses on the need to talk with a relational partner and the need to not talk with a relational partner is ______.

a. connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. openness–closedness

c. certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. revelation--concealment

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. A child may be willing to share information to parents about school but not about what happens when out with friends. This is an example of which type of internal dialectic?

a. Connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. Openness–closedness

c. Certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. Revelation–concealment

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Romantic partners may regularly have pizza delivered on Friday evenings but occasionally have a date night out. This is an example of which type of internal dialectic?

a. Connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. Openness–closedness

c. Certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. Revelation–concealment

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Friends may choose to spend time engaging in shared activities and spend other time engaging in individual activities. This is an example of which type of internal dialectic?

a. Connectedness–separateness (connection–autonomy)

b. Openness–closedness

c. Certainty–uncertainty (novelty–predictability)

d. Revelation–concealment

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Parents may enjoy spending time with their children, but they must also spend time alone together. This is an example of which type of external dialectic?

a. Inclusion–seclusion

b. Conventionality–uniqueness

c. Revelation–concealment

d. Openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. A wedding can include traditional elements but also include distinctive elements. This is an example of which type of external dialectic?

a. Inclusion–seclusion

b. Conventionality–uniqueness

c. Revelation–concealment

d. Openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Someone having an affair may be tempted to let some people know about it but ensure that other people do not know about it. This is an example of which type of external dialectic?

a. Inclusion–seclusion

b. Conventionality–uniqueness

c. Revelation–concealment

d. Openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. The external dialectic that focuses on the need to let others know of the existence of a relationship and the need to prevent others from knowing of the existence of a relationship is ______.

a. inclusion--seclusion

b. conventionality--uniqueness

c. revelation--concealment

d. openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The external dialectic that focuses on the need of people to feel as if their relationship is like the relationships of others and the need to feel as if their relationship is special is ______.

a. inclusion--seclusion

b. conventionality--uniqueness

c. revelation--concealment

d. openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. The external dialectic that focuses on the need for people in a relationship to be around others in a social network and the need for people in a relationship to be by themselves is ______.

a. inclusion–seclusion

b. conventionality–uniqueness

c. revelation–concealment

d. openness–closedness

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Dialectics

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. This process of relationship breakdown is marked by a person reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of a relationship.

a. Intrapsychic

b. Dyadic

c. Social process

d. Grave dressing

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. The ______ process entails confronting the partner and openly discussing a problem with the relationship.

a. intrapsychic

b. dyadic

c. social

d. grave dressing

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. The ______ process involves telling other people in one’s social network about the relationship problem.

a. intrapsychic

b. dyadic

c. social

d. grave dressing

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. The ______ process involves creating the story of why a relationship died and erecting a metaphorical tombstone that summarizes its main points from birth to death.

a. intrapsychic

b. dyadic

c. social

d. grave dressing

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. ______ units provide recognition that an interaction is about to end but the relationship continues.

a. Interspective

b. Retrospective

c. Introspective

d. Prospective

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. ______ units are direct indications of a relationship’s existence during the physical absence of one partner.

a. Interspective

b. Retrospective

c. Introspective

d. Prospective

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. ______ units directly recognize the end of an absence and the reestablishment of the relationship through actual interaction.

a. Interspective

b. Retrospective

c. Introspective

d. Prospective

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In a prospective RCCU, individuals may utter phrases similar to ______.

a. “Talk to you later”

b. “See you soon”

c. “Let’s table this discussion for another time”

d. “How are you doing?”

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Social relationships and personal relationships are ______.

a. unique and different

b. not mutually exclusive

c. standardized

d. not permanent

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What term characterizes the lack of shared balance in the effort required to maintain a relationship?

a. Impropriety

b. Praxis

c. Inequity

d. Major transgression

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Relationships are about more than emotion and are an important part of ______.

a. your knowledge about the world

b. what to think

c. how to act

d. what to believe and value

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. These types of processes typically take place as a relationship is ending.

a. Grave dressing

b. Intrapsychic

c. Social

d. Resurrection

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Some of the early signs of an impending relationship breakup include ______.

a. a major transgression

b. inequity

c. a conflict that is constructive

d. a breakdown in communication

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Talk (everyday communication) cannot increase the intimacy level of a relationship.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Baxter and Montgomery created the concept of praxis as a relational dialectic, which states that people make choices that impact them as well as others.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Cultures often differ in the ways that they value different types of relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The nature, style, and content of talk change as relationships change.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The perception of putting more into a relationship than the other partner automatically leads to problems or the end of a relationship.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. If someone’s meaning systems differ from your own, you are likely to want to enter a relationship with him or her.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Flirtation is an example of direct relationship talk used to change a relationship’s status.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Reassurance of need or value was identified by Weiss as a specific are where relationships provide us with something special, needed, or valued.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Communication intended to change a relationship’s status is usually indirect.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. When we see any stranger, we can tell just by looking at him or her all the information we need to know about that person in order to evaluate a possible relationship.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The complex nature of personal relationships is emphasized by the guiding assumption of relational dialectics known as totality.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. People generally communicate with others who share many of the same attitudes and beliefs.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. During the intrapsychic process, one person in the relationship weighs the advantages of staying in a relationship versus leaving it.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Talk about relationships is managed consistently across all cultural boundaries.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Your relationships with store clerks, bus drivers, and restaurant servers are generally personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Your relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners are generally social relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Rather than simply deciding at the spur of the moment to cease contact with someone, initiators of ghosting generally engage in a decision-making process when enacting ghosting.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The resurrection process deals with the ways people prepare themselves for new relationships after ending an old one.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Breakdown Process Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Totality emphasizes the complex nature of personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs) can be divided into prospective, introspective, and retrospective types.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. One of the main things that makes a relationship more rewarding to people is a sense of being known and accepted.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. The Stages of Coming Together and Coming Apart suggests that people pay attention to different cues in sequence as they get to know one another.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. The indexical function of communication demonstrates or indicates the type and nature of the relationship.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Creating Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Historically, men have more difficulty, compared to women, raising and discussing certain topics in a relationship.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relationship Talk: Direct

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What occurs as relationships transform?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Belonging and a sense of reliable alliance are important because ______.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. How is flirtation a tool in advancing a relationship?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Explain the role of physical appearance in Duck’s Relationship Filtering Model.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Provide an example of the external dialectic of revelation–concealment.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. What are the processes that generally take place in the Breakdown Process Model?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Julia Wood has offered six symptoms and sources of decline in personal relationships. What are they?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The study of dialectics adheres to four guiding assumptions. What are these assumptions?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. What are the three types of relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs)?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The deep and important psychological and supportive benefits that relationships provide are known as ______.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. According to the Relationship Filtering Model, the sequence in which you pay attention to characteristics of other people is basically the sequence in which you encounter them. What is the order of that sequence?

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The _______ function of communication (not just talk, but rather any symbolic activity) happens when communication makes the relationship real or communicates it into being.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Creating Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Explain how relationships influence what you don’t know.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Why are people careful about engaging in direct talk about relationships?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain how relationships influence the distribution of information.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Discuss the difference between social and personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain how the grave-dressing process works when a relationship comes apart.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. Explain Duck’s claim that relationship development depends on the interpretation of information sharing, not just the act of information sharing.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Illustrate how relationships are initiated.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Initiating Relationships: Attraction and The Relationship Filtering Model

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Relationships are categorized according to different styles of communication. Explain how the understanding and appreciation of business relationships depends on culture.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Distinguish between personal relationships and social relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Are Personal Relationships?

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Contradiction involves the interplay between two things that are connected at the same time they are in opposition. What might those two things include?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Using Weiss’s provisions of relationships, explain some of the reasons people are drawn to social media.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relationships and Support

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. How do people make sense of relationships when they are always changing?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transforming Relationships

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Explain why being on the rebound after a relationship ends is accepted in society.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. Explain why some people may believe it is important to have friends from social networks support them when in the midst of a relationship breakdown.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. Explain how relationships are evaluated.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Explain how the social process works when a relationship comes apart.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Explain how the dyadic process works when a relationship comes apart.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Explain how the intrapsychic process works when a relationship comes apart.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Explain deterioration in communication as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Explain destructive conflict as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Explain changes in evaluative standards as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Explain major transgressions as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Commprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Explain inequity as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Explain personal reflection as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain how relationships come apart.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coming Apart

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Explain the guiding assumption of contradiction in relational dialectics.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Explain the guiding assumption of change in relational dialectics.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Explain the guiding assumption of praxis in relational dialectics.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Explain the guiding assumption of totality in relational dialectics.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Demonstrate how relationships are developed and maintained.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Personal relationships provide people with opportunities to express and evaluate emotions. Explain how this process works in relationships.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. What are the provisions of relationships?

Learning Objective: 7.2: Explain the benefits of relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Benefits of Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy