Across
- 4. The second stage in relationship development in which you further advance the relationship, first testing each other and then intensifying your interaction.
- 8. A theory claiming that people experience relational satisfaction when there is an equal distribution of rewards and costs between the two persons in the relationship.
- 16. A theory concerned with relation development from the superficial to the intimate levels (depth) and from few to many areas of interpersonal interaction (breadth).
- 17. The first stage in relationship development, consisting of perceptual contact (you see or hear the person) and interactional contact (you talk with the person).
- 18. Significant relationship events events that have important consequences for the individuals and the relationship and may turn its direction or trajectory.
- 23. A theory holding that you develop relationships on the basis of similarity, proximity, reinforcement, physical and personality attractiveness, socioeconomic and educational status, and reciprocity of liking.
- 25. license: Permission to violate some relationship, expectation, or rule.
- 26. A theory hypothesizing that you cultivate profitable relationships (those in which your rewards are greater than your costs) and that you avoid or terminate unprofitable relationships (those in which your costs exceed your rewards).
- 27. The number of topics about which individuals in a relationship communicate.
Down
- 1. An explanation of the conflicting motives that people in close relationships often experience.
- 2. A reversal of penetration; a condition in which the breadth and depth of a relationship decrease.
- 3. That stage of relationships in which one or both parties seek to resolve problems.
- 5. The tendency to like those who like us, to find attractive people who find us attractive.
- 6. A general idea of the kinds of rewards and profits that you feel you ought to get out of a relationship.
- 7. A principle of attraction holding that you are attracted by qualities that you are attracted by qualities that you do not possess or wish to possess, and to people who are opposite or different from yourself. Opposed to similarity.
- 9. Anything that you want, that you enjoy, and that you’d be willing to incur costs to obtain.
- 10. The stage of a relationship during which the connecting bonds between the partners weaken and the partners begin drifting apart.
- 11. Small behaviors you enjoy receiving from others, especially from your relational partner—for example, a kiss before you leave for work.
- 12. The termination or end of an interpersonal relationship.
- 13. The degree to which the inner personality—the inner core of an individual—is penetrated in interpersonal interaction.
- 14. The result of the rewards or benefits one derives from a relationship minus the costs.
- 15. Holds that you develop and maintain relationships with those who support your positive and negative face needs
- 19. A theory that holds that people maintain relationships with those who follow the rules the individuals have defined as essential to their relationship and dissolve relationships with those who don’t follow the rules.
- 20. A quality of interpersonal effectiveness that involves sharing others’ feelings; and ability to feel or perceive things from others’ point of view.
- 21. The closest interpersonal relationship; usually characterizes close primary relationships.
- 22. Anything that you normally try to avoid—things you consider unpleasant or difficult.
- 24. A principle of attraction holding that you’re attracted to qualities similar to your own and to people who are similar to you. Opposed to complementarity.