Across
- 1. Competing impulses or tensions arise in one’s feelings toward a relational partner. (Two words)
- 3. Expressing emotional support and offering personal assistance to lovers, family members, friends, or coworkers who need it. (Two words)
- 5. The part of your self that contains your attitudes and opinions about things like music, politics, food, and entertainment. (Two words)
- 7. Communicating in a cheerful and optimistic fashion, doing unsolicited favors, and giving unexpected gifts.
- 8. The tension between people’s need for excitement and change and their need for stability. (Three words)
- 9. The emotional, mental, and physical involvements that you forge with others through communication. (Two words)
- 11. The outermost part of yourself; demographic characteristics, such as your birthplace, age, gender, and ethnicity. (Two words)
- 13. The use of communication behaviors to keep a relationship strong and to ensure that each party continues to draw satisfaction from the relationship (Two words).
- 14. The ability to see things from another person’s perspective and show compassion for the other person.
- 15. Exchanges that have a negligible impact on your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. (Two words)
- 16. A stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other’s suitability as a prospective partner in an intimate relationship. A common example of social penetration theory.
- 17. People want to disclose private information with their relationship partners but they also desire to keep certain aspects of their selves, such as their most private thoughts and feeling, protected. (Three words)
- 18. Revealing private information about yourself to others. (Two words)
- 19. Conditions governing what partners can (and can’t) talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who else should have access to this information. (Two words)
- 20. People use self-disclosure to reveal themselves to others. (Three words)
Down
- 2. Individuals create information boundaries by carefully choosing the kind of private information they reveal and the people with whom they share it. (Four words)
- 4. Communication between two people in which the messages exchanged significantly impact the thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships between the people involved. (Two words)
- 5. Feelings of closeness between you and others.
- 6. The part of your self that are the core characteristics such as self-awareness, self-concept, self-esteem, personal values, fears, and distinctive personality traits. (Two words)
- 10. Forming a close relationship and feeling so connected to your partners that your own identity seems to dissolve, causing you to want to pull back and reclaim your independence. (Three words)
- 12. Messages that emphasize how much your relationship partners mean to you, point out how important the relationships are to you, and show that you see a secure future together.