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72 Cards in this Set
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Anxious/ Ambivalent Attachment Style
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Inconsistent treatment from the caregiver.
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Attachment Style
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Patterns of care giving that teach us how to view ourselves and personal relationships.
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Direct Definition
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Communication that explicitly tells us who we are by labeling us and our behaviors.
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Dismissive attachment style
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Promoted by caregivers who are uninterested in, rejecting of, or abusive toward children.
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Downer
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People who communicate negatively about us and our worth. Call attention to our flaws, emphasize our problems, and put down our dreams and goals.
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Fearful attachment style
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Cultivated when the primary caregiver communicates in negative, rejecting,or even abusive ways to a child.
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Generalized other
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Perspective of society as a whole.
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Life Script
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Rules for living and identity. They define our roles, how we play them, and the basic elements of what our families see as the right plot for our lives.
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Particular others
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Especially significant people to us and they help shape how we see ourselves. Mothers, fathers, siblings, peers, etc...
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Reflected Appraisal
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The process of seeing ourselves through the eyes of others.
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Secure attachment style
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When a child's primary caregiver responds in a consistently attentive and loving way to a child.
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Self
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An ever-changing system of perspectives that is formed and sustained in communication with other and ourselves.
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Self-Disclosure
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The revelation of personal information about ourselves that others are unlikely to learn on their own.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Expectations or judgments of ourselves that we bring about through our own actions.
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Self-Sabotage
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Telling ourselves we are no good, we can't do something, there's no point in trying to change, and so forth.
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Social comparison
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Rating of ourselves relative to others with respect to our talents, abilities, qualities, and so forth.
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Uncertainty reduction theory
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Asserts that people find uncertainty uncomfortable and so are motivated to use communication to reduce uncertainty.
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Upper
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People who communicate positively about us and who reflect positive appraisals of our self-worth.
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Vulture
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Extreme downers. They attack our self-concepts.
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Agape
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A selfless kind of love in which a beloved's happiness is more important than one's own. These type of lovers are generous, unselfish, and devoted.
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Autonomy/connection
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Dialectic involves the desires to be separate, on the one hand, and to be connected, on the other.
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Commitment
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The decision to remain with a relationship.
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Equity Theory
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People are happier and more satisfied with equitable relationships than with inequitable ones.
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Eros
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A style of loving that is passionate, intense, and fast moving.
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Investment
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What we put into a relationship that we could not retrieve if the relationship were to end.
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Ludus
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A playful, sometimes manipulative style of loving. For these types of lovers, love is a challenge, a puzzle, a game to be relished but it will not lead to commitment.
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Mania
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An unsettling style of loving marked by emotional extremes. These lovers are often insecure about their value and their partners' commitment.
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Matching Hypothesis
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Predicts that people will seek relationships with others who closely match their own values, attitudes, social background, and physical attractiveness.
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Neutralization
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Negotiates a balance between the opposing dialectical forces.
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Novelty/Predictability
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The opposition of the desire for familiar routines and the desire for novelty.
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Openness/Closedness
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Involves the desire for openness in tension with the desire for privacy.
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Passion
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An intense feeling based on the rewards of involvement with another person.
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Personal relationship
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A voluntary commitment between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by rules, relationship dialectics, and surrounding contexts.
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Pragma
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A pragmatic and goal-oriented style of loving. These lovers rely on reason and practical considerations when initially selecting people to love.
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Psychological responsibility
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Involves remembering, planning, and coordinating domestic activities.
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Reframing
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A complex strategy that redefines apparently contradictory needs as not really in opposition.
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Relationship Culture
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The private world of rules, understandings, meanings, and patterns of interacting that partners create.
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Relationship dialectics
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These are opposing and continuous tensions that are normal in all close relationships.
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Rules
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Guide how partners communicate and interpret each other's communication.
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Segmentation
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Partners assign each pole to certain spheres, issues, activities, or times. Example: Friends may be open about many topics but respect each others privacy when it comes to sensitive matters.
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Separation
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Addresses one need in a dialectic and ignores the other. Example: Compromise...Giving some to get some.
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Social Relationship
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One in which participants interact according to general social roles rather than unique individual identities.
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Storge
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A comfortable, "best friends" kind of love that grows gradually to create a stable, even-keeled companionship.
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Turning point
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Moves a relationship toward or away from intimacy.
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Brainstorming
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To come up with as many ideas as possible.
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Climate Communication
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Focuses on creating and maintaining a constructive climate that encourages members to contribute and evaluate ideas critically.
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Cohesion
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The degree of closeness among members and the sense of group spirit. |
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Constructive Conflict
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Occurs when members understand that disagreements are natural and can help them achieve their shared goals.
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Disruptive Conflict
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Marked by egocentric communication that is competitive as members vie with each other to wield influence and get their way.
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Egocentric communication
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A.K.A. Dysfunctional communication, blocks other, sabotages a healthy climate, or is self-absorbed.
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Group
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Three or more people who interact over time, depend on one another, and follow shared rules of conduct to reach a common goal.
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Groupthink
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Which members cease to think critically and independently. All members thinking the exact same way to achieve a higher level of accomplishment when it comes to tasks. i.e. the military.
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Leadership
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The process of establishing and maintaining a good working climate, organizing group processes, and ensuring that discussion is substantive.
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Norm
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Guidelines that regulate how members act as well as how they interact with each other.
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Power
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The ability to influence others.
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Power over
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The ability to help or harm other.
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Power to
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The ability to empower others to reach their goals.
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Procedural Communication
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Helps a group get organized and stay on track.
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Quality improvement team
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Three or more people who have distinct skills or knowledge and who work together to improve quality in an organization.
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Social loafing
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When members of a group exert less effort than they would if they worked alone.
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Synergy
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A special kind of collaborative vitality that enhances the efforts, talents, and strengths of individual members.
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Task Communication
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Provides ideas and information, clarifies members' understanding, and critically evaluates ideas.
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Team
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A special kind of group characterized by different, complementary resources of members and by a strong sense of collective identity.
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Social Climbing
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The attempt to increase personal status in a group by winning the approval of high-status members.
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Communication network
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Which are formal and informal links between members of organizations.
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Organizational culture
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Which consists of ways of thinking, acting, and understanding work that are shared by members of an organization and that reflect an organization's identity.
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Policy
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Formal statements of practices that reflect and uphold the overall culture of an organization.
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Rite
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Dramatic, planned sets of activities that bring together aspects of cultural ideology in a single event.
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Ritual
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Forms of communication that occur regularly.
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Role
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Responsibilities and behaviors expected of people because of their specific positions in an organization.
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Structure
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Organize relationships and interactions between members of an organization.
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Workplace Bullying
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Recurring hostile behaviors used by people with greater power against people with lesser power.
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