| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Compliance Gaining | Trying to elicit a specific behavior from someone |
| Communication Technologies | means of recording, transferring, and working with information |
| Digital Divide | Not everyone has equal access to the same technologies |
| Relationship Trajectories | Stages of relationship escalations |
| Pre-Interaction Awareness | forming ideas about people before meeting them |
| Initiation | Where we first assess the person based on initial interaction |
| Exploration | engaging in an exchange of information about each other |
| Intensification | starting to engage in more disclosure about oneself, placing a label on the relationship |
| Revising | Discussion about the relationship; do we have a future? |
| Intimate Bonding | highest level of relationship, doing things together |
| Turmoil or Stagnation | When you start to realize that there are a lot of little things that bother you; no stimulation |
| De-intensification | we start to decrease physical interactions and independence on that person |
| Complementary Needs | everyone has certain needs that they need to be met at a certain level |
| Inclusion | how many people you like to include when doing things |
| Affection | how much affections you need to give and receive; same |
| Control | how much someone likes to be controlled/be in control; works better as opposites |
| Reciprocation of Liking | tend to be more attracted to people who we thik like is |
| Short Term Initial Attraction | thinking that you'd like to get to know someone/possibly date |
| Long Term Maintenance Attraction | as you ge tto know someone, things that appear that make you want to continue in the relationship |
| Breadth | The amount of information you share |
| Depth | the level of information you share |
| Self Disclosure | relationship progress based on the amount of information, the breadth, and depth of information that we disclose together; moves from less personal to personal |
| Public Information | Outer Appearance |
| Facts and Biographical | basic information, things you disclose initially |
| Attitudes and Idea | likes and dislikes |
| Personal Feelings and Emotions | fears, secrets |
| Peak Information | really deep, dark secrets that you don't tell anybody |
| Relationship Maintenance | a variety of behaviors used by partners in an effort to stay together; positivity, openness, assurances, sharking tasks, and networks |
| Dialectical Theory | says that within every relationship that exists, we have dialectical tensions (opposing forces) |
| Relational Culture | every relationship has its own unique way that has its own patterns |
| Idioms | Ways of talking or referring to one another (nicknames) |
| Relationship Dissolution | signs the relationship is coming to a close |
| Indirect Terminal Strategies | ways of ending a relationship without actually saying you want to; withdrawal, pseudo-deescalation, cost escalation |
| Direct Terminal Strategies | saying you want to end the relationship; negative identity management, justification, de-escalation, and positive tone |
| Negative Identity Management | ending a relationship with no concern to the other person |
| Intrapsychic Processes | Determining whether or not (in your head) you want to break up or what you want to do with a relationship |
| Dyadic Processes | engaging in conversation that you want a relationship to end |
| Social Support Processes | turning to people in social networks and telling them that the relationship is over |
| Grave-Dressing Processes | telling people what happened, mourning the loss |
| Associative Friendship | superficial type friends, casual basis |
| Reciprocal Friendship | taking a long time to develop, close/loyal |
| Receptive Friendship | function to accomplish a goal, get something done, ex. coach and athlete |
| Eros | Passionate love |
| Mania | Obsessed love |
| Ludas | Treating love like a game |
| Pragma | Practical Love |
| Storge | Deep, developed love |
| Agape | Selfless Love |
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