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COM 225 Final Exam
COM 225 Final Exam Chp. 11 - Friendships
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A voluntary IP relationship characterized by intimacy and liking. | Friendship |
| The primary force that draws us to our friends. | Similarity |
| One of the most common reasons for friendships ending is | changes in interests and beliefs. |
| Friendship is characterized by _____, driven by _______, rooted in ______, and it is _______. | Self disclosure, shared interests, liking, volatile. |
| The feelings of affection and respect we have for our friends is called. | liking |
| The functions of friendship are (2) | Need for companionship, help us achieve practical goals. |
| Friendships that focus primarily on sharing time and activities together. | Communal Friendships |
| What is the central aspect of communal friendships that only allows them to endure if both friends fulfill the expectations of this? | Emotional support |
| The parties focus primarily on helping e/o achieve practical goals. | Agentic friendships |
| Both m & w report that being able to freely and deeply ____ is the defining feature of friendship. | Disclose |
| During adolescence kids transfer emotional attachment from _____ to _____. | Family to friends |
| Up until 4th grade kids look to their ____ as their sole source of emotional support. | Family |
| By 7th grade kids do what? | Rely on same-sex friends as much as family for support. |
| College kids' _____ is primary relationship for fulfilling relational needs. | Friends |
| The importance of friends begins to wane when? (And especially for married men) | Middle adulthood, when ppl form their own families. |
| What is the most important relationship for providing social support and intimacy for elderly? | Friendship |
| In many cultures, M & W look to same-sex friendships as primary source of what? | Intimacy |
| The vast bulk of FB friends are actually what, not friends. | Acquaintances |
| ___ ____ involve greater intimacy, more disclosure, & deeper commitment than close friendships. | Best friendships |
| M & F talk more frequently & deeply w/ who ab their relationships, emotions, live events & goals. | Best friends |
| The most important factor distinguishing best friends is what? | Identity Support |
| Behaving in ways that convey understanding, acceptance, and support for a friend's valued social identities. | Identity support |
| The aspects of your public self that you deem most important in defining who are. | Valued Social Identities |
| Friendships forged that cross demographic lines. | Cross-category friendships |
| Most cross-sex friendships are/aren't motivated by sexual attraction. | Aren't |
| Most kids enter teens w/ a limited amount of experience building what kind of relationships? | Cross-sex |
| T/F Romantic partners of ppl involved in cross-sex relationships are usually very approving. | False, usually very disapproving |
| Are cross-sex friendships more, less, or just as stable as same-sex friendships? | Less, b/c of constant disapproval from others & pressure to justify the relationship. |
| T/F for straight M & W, cross orientation friendships can help correct negative stereotypes ab ppl of other orientations. | True |
| What is the group with the fewest # of cross-orientation friends. | Straight Men |
| Friendships btw ppl from different cultures/countries. | Intercultural |
| A bond btw 2 ppl who share the same cultural background, but are both from different ethnic groups. | Interethnic |
| T/F People who develop a close interethnic friendship become less prejudice toward ethnicities of all types as a result. | True |
| What are the most difficult barriers ppl face in forming interethnic friendships? | Attributional & perceptual errors |
| Being overly concerned w/ the correct way to act & behaving nervously, causing awkward encounters, can prevent the formation of what kind of friendships? | Interethnic |
| General principles that prescribe appropriate comm & behavior w/in friendship relationships. | Friendship rules |
| What is a critical feature of enduring friendships? | Trust |
| What is even more important than the actual sharing of an activity for friends? | The perception that each friend is willing to make time for the other. |
| Friends that don't spend much time together can still maintain satisfying connection as long as each perceives the other as doing what when needed? | Being there when needed. |
| Communication boundaries can be healthy as long as what? | Both friends agree on them |
| What are the 3 most common intense IP challenges in friendship? | Betrayal, geographic distance, attraction |
| How _____ was the betrayal? What's the ___ surrounding the betrayal? Do the benefits _____? Was the betrayal a ____ event or consistent pattern? Does it reveal something ab friend you can't _____? | Serious, context, outweigh the costs, 1-time, you can't live with. |
| What is one of the most common/intense challenges for friends. | Separation |
| In friendships that survive geographic distance, the 2 ppl feel a particularly strong what for each other? | liking |
| Friendships that do what often have a strong sense of shared history. | Survive separation |
| Friends who feel attracted to e/o report high what as a result? | Uncertainty |
| FWB often practice this by doing things to actively manage how they thing ab e/o so that the attraction is diminished. | Mental Management |
| First & most powerful cue of desire for RR = radical increase in amount of time friends spend doing what with e/o? | Flirting |
| Strong predictor of whether friendship can successfully transition to RR is whether friends already possess romantic beliefs that do what? | Link friendship w/ love |
| Post romance friendships are usually more close/less close than those friends who've always been platonic? | Less close |
| Straight & gay men w/ the closest friendships were those who did what? | Fought side-by-side together in the military |
| C-o Male friendships lack what? | Consistency |
| Most frequently cited reason for deterioration of LDF = what? | Geographic separation |
| What's the most commonly reported reason for ending a friendship? | Betrayal |
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