Across
- 5. Ultra-argumentativeness using personal attacks, name-calling, and other aggressive tactics
- 7. Communication within oneself; self-dialogue
- 10. A theory that holds one’s personality and behavior are influenced by social development as opposed to biological development
- 12. The idea that people make life choices based on a cost-benefit analysis of what better meets personal goals
- 14. A state where one thing or person requires another thing or person to meet goals
- 15. Focusing discussion on the interaction process; communication about communication
- 18. In attribution theory, where one ascribes motivations for personal behavior to a personal character trait when it is most flattering and to situation constraints to diminish personal responsibility
- 22. A struggle among a small number of interdependent people arising from perceived interference with goal achievement
- 26. A relatively stable set of perceptions, values, attitudes, and beliefs an individual holds about oneself
- 27. A theory that holds one’s personality and behavior are influenced by biological development rather than social development
- 32. Communication to bring the perceptions and expectations held by different people closer together
- 33. A behavioral theory that holds that individuals learn what attitudes and behaviors are appropriate through observation and social interaction
- 34. Climates in which individuals feel safer and mare more likely to engage in productive problem solving and conflict management
- 35. A party’s preference for the depth or type of connection to another person
- 36. A theory that highlights the complex nature of life and holds that the interdependency of all the relationships among individuals in a system, as well as the surrounding environment, must be considered to understand the whole
- 37. The concept that people consistently make sense of the world by assigning meaning and motives to others’ behaviors
- 38. The event that precipitates a conflict episode
- 39. The general conversational area in which a conflict issue may be embedded
Down
- 1. An overarching set of beliefs about how the world works and one’s place in it
- 2. The view that through interest-based negotiations the needs of all parties can be met to some extent
- 3. Tentative explanation for an observed behavior
- 4. Anything perceived to be in short supply
- 6. The end or desired condition
- 8. The mistaken idea that communication processes work like machines where one component can be removed and understood apart from the system in which it occurs
- 9. Providing reasons to support an assertion or claim
- 11. Arises from a focus on the underlying needs on each of the parties rather than on their surface demands
- 13. Climates that are associated with cooperative and competitive tactics, and can be determined by the extent individuals feel valued by others
- 16. Conflicts caused by misinterpretations and misinterpretation
- 17. The public or private image one holds about oneself
- 19. Conceived an internal struggle between the id and superego
- 20. What one says one’s goals were after a conflict episode ends
- 21. A theory that models the outcomes of conflict based on choices made by players through a rational process
- 23. Situations where an individual’s goals are somewhat cooperative and somewhat competitive
- 24. An interaction theory advance by Delia and others, that holds individuals create meaning and interpret reality through a series of personal constructs or schemas
- 25. A theory that explores communication as a machine with discrete parts that function in preset sequences
- 28. Explanations that focus on the communication that occurs between people in conflict rather than on an individual or internal processes
- 29. Assuming a behavior was caused by factors inherent to the person, such as personality, values, or characteristics, and not some external situation
- 30. Deeply seated beliefs and core ideas about right and wrong
- 31. A distributive view that resources are limited. As they are allocated, the amount of resources left ultimately will reach zero
- 34. One’s view of oneself