Chp 8: Relationship Development

Identity

________- how we understand our own qualities, beliefs, values, and characteristics as unique or different from others.

Breadth

________ (the range of topics discussed) and depth (how personal or sensitive the information is) determine the stages.

Mark Knapp

________: a Communication scholar that created the Stage Model of Relational Development, which identifies five stages through which individuals come together and five stages through which individuals come apart.

Excommunication

________- an exile from a community one belonged to whereby one is shunned into reconciliation or completely exiled; it requires no communication between the individual and the community.

Social Penetration Theory

________- the process of creating and maintaining deeper intimacy with another person takes place through gradual and mutual self- disclosure.

Stable Exchange

________: individuals have a deep level of trust and are sharing their deepest personal thoughts, beliefs, and values with one another.

Depenetration

________: individuals begin to withdraw from the relationship and stop disclosing information to each other.

Orientation

________: individuals engage in small talk and follow social norms for appropriateness and social desirability.

Interpersonal attraction

________- a force that draws us to someone else.

Self disclosure

________- when one person voluntarily shares personal history and information regarding attitudes, feelings, values, and experiences with another individual.

Task attraction

________- we like to work with them and can count on them to get a job done.

Exploratory Affective Exchange

________: individuals began to reveal themselves by sharing personal attitudes and opinions about some moderately personal topics (government, education, and current events)

personal idioms

Affective Exchange: individuals begin talking about private and personal matters, and they might begin using ________ that are unique to that relationship or even begin engaging in criticisms and arguments from time to time.

Passive strategy

________- unobtrusively observing the other person.

Interactive strategy

________- engaging in direct contact or face- to- face conversation with the other person.

Active strategy

________- engaging in activities to learn more about the other person while avoiding direct contact with him or her.

Stagnation stage

________- when couples move into the ________, they are still a couple, but primarily in name; they are neither moving forward nor backward in the relationship but have hit a point when they are not relating on an intimate level.

Social penetration theory

________, self- disclosure, breadth, and depth.

Social Penetration Theory

________ proposes that we create and maintain deeper intimacy with another person through mutual self- disclosure.