Exam 3: Family Communication, Conflict, and Forgiveness

If College Student Emily is going back and forth to home to help care for an ill parent or assist her family during a difficult time, her partner will take this information into consideration if she snaps at him or is unusually quiet; however, a clerk at a store or a waiter who does not know Emily's contextual information might assume that she is being rude or impolite in a social interaction. This is an example of _____.

This term means "to place together" or to connect one entity to another.

________ forms of communication refer to exchanges of thoughts, messages, or information through the spoken word.

According to the text, covert destructive conflict falls within five specific categories, one of which is displacement. Define displacement in this context.

Developed by psychiatrist and theorist Murray Bowen (1913-1990) who devoted his life to the "human cause," the ________ views families as a whole entity that are comprised of interconnected parts that seek to maintain balance.

Another word for homeostasis is ________.

Forgiveness occurs at two different levels. What are they?

The Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems was created to address family cohesion, adaptability, and communication.

According to the text, covert destructive conflict falls within five specific categories, one of which is pseudomutuality. Define pseudomutuality in this context.

There are four fundamental verbal communication processes/skills that affect how we send and receive messages. Name and explain them.

White and Klein state that "effective relationships, both in and outside of families, are dependent on nurturing a culture of shared meanings." Please explain.

Culture has little effect on our attitudes regarding symbols of affection.

Another key concept in symbolic interaction theory is that of role, or a "system of _________."

This type of verbal conflict refers to a spouse or a family member who holds in resentment, hurt, anger, frustration, and bitter feelings until that "last straw," when the spouse or family member unloads all of the pent up feelings in the midst of an argument.

________ are experienced in the form of anger and irritation and are oftentimes the result of being injured, harmed, or mistreated in interpersonal interactions. These messages are conveyed through staring or glaring, a "tense, tight jaw," narrowed eyes, sadness or depression, and crying.

What takes place with "active listening"?

________ occurs when there are competing demands from multiple roles.

Culture, ethnicity, values, and family history do not come into play when establishing rules for dealing with feelings and emotions.

How we decode or interpret the unspoken exchanges that take place in the many nuances of couple talk greatly impacts marital adjustment and marital satisfaction.

The human body is a complex network of many subsystems that are organized into a single whole.