Exam 13: Intimacy and Distance in Relationships

Messages of ______________ generally include personal facts about you that someone would be unlikely to discover on his/her own.

When another person reveals the same kind of information we do, we feel:

If we believe we are investing equally in a relationship's future, we feel that we are sharing the following experiences:

This involves the realization that dialectical tensions will persist in relationships, if only because relationships are complex.

Please explain at least two media messages we receive that keep our relationships unhealthy.

Relationship repair depends on what one person in the relationship wants and needs.

When these are good, _______________ help make us healthier and extend our lives.

This portion of the Johari Window signifies areas that someone else is aware of (about you), but you are not aware of.

Confirming that the other person in a relationship is willing to match both the level and nature of disclosing that we have shared is known as the norm of sharing.

Draw at least two comparisons between the Johari Window model and the social penetration model.

Similar attitudes about intimacy and disclosure can be found across cultures.

Relationships typically begin with all of the following except:

What group tends to have close online friends, but perceive real-life friendships to promote more self-disclosure?

Weblogs are often not effective means of emotional purging and insight.

Facebook users are often no more than ________ degrees away from any other user.

This group tends to do little disclosing about themselves to others except those few people they are very close to.