6.8: Review
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Chapter 6: Vocabulary and Questions for Review and Discussion
- Accommodating
- Arranged Marriage
- Avoiding
- Collaborating
- Compromise
- Confirming Climate
- Conflict
- Disconfirming Climate
- Family
- Friendship
- Interpersonal Communication
- Johari Window: open, hidden, blind, and unknown panes
- Navigating
- Proximity
- Relationship dialectics
- Romantic relationships
- What is self-disclosure? You may use the textbook definition to start, but then explain the definition in your own words.
- Why is self-disclosure important in interpersonal relationships? What should guide us in deciding how much information to self-disclose and how much to keep hidden?
- How does the textbook define or describe “confirming communication climate”? After giving the textbook definition, explain the definition in your own words.
- What are three types of messages that create a confirming communication environment? Explain and give an example of each. (Do not simply copy what the textbook says without explanation.)
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- In the United States, most marriages are voluntary romantic relationships of choice. However, in some cultures and even co-cultures within the United States, marriages are arranged. Explain what an arranged marriage is. Explain possible cultural reasons behind arranged marriages. (You might find it helpful to look back at Chapter 2.
- What is the purpose of the Johari Window? In other words, why was it created, and how can it be used?
- For this question, do the following:
- Select one of the Relationship dialectics discussed in 6.4 (Autonomy vs. Connection; Novelty-Predictability; Openness-Closedness).
- Explain what the relational dialectic is.
- Then, using one of your own relationships (spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, parent/child) as an example, explain how you manage the dialectic you chose in that relationship. For example, I might choose my relationship with my husband as an example. Then explain how I manage the dialectic of Openness-Closedness by giving examples of the types of things I reveal and some of the things I keep hidden. If you live alone and do not have a relationship to discuss, use a past relationship or even a hypothetical relationship. For example, you might not be married now, but you could discuss how you could manage this dialectic if you were married.
- What Relational dialectic did you choose? Define the relational dialectic you chose.
- Using one of your own relationships, explain how you manage the relational dialectic you chose. If you live alone and do not have a relationship to discuss, use a past relationship or even a hypothetical relationship. For example, you might not be married now, but you could discuss how you could manage this dialectic if you were married.