Exam 10: Developing, Maintaining, and Ending Interpersonal Relationships

Listening skills and ________ are as important in developing and maintaining relationships as they are in initiating relationships.

When a relationship runs down like a dying battery, it is ending through

Little physical contact and limitations on time spent together occur during which stage?

________ strategies are ways and methods of getting people to like us.

Couples use less present tense when the relationship is

Being invited home to visit your significant other's parents is a ________.

Turning points in a relationship signify

Talk is limited to superficial subjects, but partners have extensive personal knowledge about each other.This causes discomfort during which de-escalation stage?

Researchers found that romantic couples indicated ________ as the number one problem in their relationships.

The number one cause to which people attribute break ups is

Since the scripted nature of initial interactions limits our ability to achieve an in-depth understanding of another person

When a relationship is moving too fast

The strategy that is most sensitive to the other person's sense of self is

The uncertainty reduction theory

During the pre-interaction awareness stage of relational escalation, you

Incremental endings occur when

What are the stages in the ending of a relationship according to Steve Duck?

Disclosing information and direct expression are two ways to

When providing information about yourself

Don't put too much into an initial interaction because