Communications Chapter 8

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Across
  1. 2. the closest interpersonal relationship
  2. 6. efforts to reverse the process of relationship deterioration
  3. 7. verbal and nonverbal signals that show love for another person
  4. 11. the stage in an interpersonal relationship that normally follows contact
  5. 14. the quality of communication referring to the dependency of each element on each other element in the process
  6. 18. in attraction theory, rewards or favors that tend to promote interpersonal relationships
  7. 19. the first stage of an interpersonal relationship
  8. 20. a theory that describes relationships as interactions governed by series of rules that couples agree to follow
Down
  1. 1. in the social penetration theory of interpersonal relationships, the number of topics about which individuals in a relationship communicate
  2. 3. a principle of attraction stating that we are attracted by qualities that we do not possess or that we wish to possess and to people who are opposite or different from ourselves
  3. 4. a principle of attraction holding that we are attracted to qualities similar to those we possess and to people who are similar to ourselves
  4. 5. the reaction to relationship threats
  5. 8. a theory hypothesizing that we develop relationships in which our rewards or profits will be greater that our costs and that we avoid or terminate relationships in which the costs exceed the rewards
  6. 9. in a relationship this may be distinguished as physical abuse, verbal or emotional abuse, and sexual abuse
  7. 10. physical closeness; one of the qualities influencing attraction
  8. 12. the state or process by which one individual is drawn to another and forms a highly positive evaluation of that other person
  9. 13. a condition in which the breadth and depth of a relationship decrease
  10. 15. the stage of a relationship during which the connecting bonds between the partners weaken and the partners begin drifting apart
  11. 16. the breaking of the bonds holding an interpersonal relationship together
  12. 17. in social penetration theory of interpersonal relationships, the degree to which the inner personality-inner core-of an individual in penetrated in interpersonal interaction