CHAPTER 9 KEY TERMS Crossword

communication between two people in which the messages exchanged significantly impact their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships
involving pairs of people A primary tool for building, maintaining, and ending relationships
exchanges that have a negligible impact on your thoughts, emotions, behaviors and relationships.
are interpersonal involvements in which the participants perceive the bond as romantic and are rooted in perception
a feeling of affection and respect.
a more intense emotional connection, consisting of intimacy, caring, and attachment.
are incredibly diverse and are constantly in flux.
often strong among family members.
refers to how family members are constantly juggling multiple roles.
explains how members of the same family typically experience both warm and antagonistic feelings toward one another at various times
a voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking
are the affiliations you have with professional peers, supervisors, subordinates, or mentors, which vary along three dimensions
the stage when you size up a new person to decide whether you want to get to know that person better.
stage begins when you exchange demographic information such as names, majors, hometowns.
occurs when you and the other person begin to share much more personal information about yourselves.
starts when you and your partner’s personalities seem to blend, you both engage in activities and interests that clearly join you together as a couple, and use language expressing your new identity
the ultimate stage of coming together and is a public ritual that announces to the world that you and your romantic partner have made a commitment to one another.
the first stage of coming apart, when the beliefs, attitudes, and values that distinguish you from your partner come to dominate your thoughts and communication.
begins when one or both of you respond to problematic differences by ignoring them and spending less time talking
begins when the circumscribing becomes so severe that you and the other person have almost no safe topics you can talk about and communication slows to a standstill.