Which concept describes the competing impulses or tensions that often arise in our feelings toward our relational partners?Group of answer choicesRelational tensionsRelational dialecticsRelational tendenciesRelational Maintenance

___________ is a close emotional relationship characterized by a deep level of caring for another person.Group of answer choices​Intimacy​Enmeshment​Sensuality​Sexuality

Which term refers to the use of communication behaviors to keep a relationship strong and to ensure that each party continues to draw satisfaction from the relationship?Group of answer choicesAssurancesPositivitySelf-disclosureRelational Maintenance

When people’s partners and friends define situations in specific ways and encourage them to experience specific feelings, they are providing people in these situations with what sociologists call __________.A.role strainB.role tensionC.emotional scriptsD.emotional triggers

Knapp’s “staircase” relationship model attempts to explain ___________. Like other models, this assumes that __________.Group of answer choiceswhy and when a relationship suddenly changes; nonverbal communication reveals important clues to relationships that a study of verbal communication missesthe different disengagement strategies relational partners use; interpersonal communication is best when genuinewhy couple disengage from one another; relational communication relies on partner attentionhow people progress through discrete relational phases; relational development is marked by changes in interpersonal communication

Which of the following is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another?Group of answer choicesSympathyEmpathy