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CMS 315M - Chapter 9 SI Exam Questions and Answers
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CMS 315M - Chapter 9 SI ExamQuestions and Answers
**Commitment and Commitment Talk - Answer -Commitments take many forms, based
on each partner's degree of attraction for the relationship and each other.
The different types will reflect and be reflected in different types of relationship talk. 3
ways people consider commitment:
1. Want To Commitment
2. Have To Commitment
3. Ought To Commitment
1. Want To Commitment - Answer -Attraction for the relationship and each other.
2. Have To Commitment - Answer -*Depend on them
--Money together, leased apartment together, no other options
3. Ought To Commitment - Answer -*Morals
--Bible says once married must stay married, church says no divorce
6 Dimensions associated with the strength of one's "want to" commitment: - Answer -1.
Perceiving a Rewarding Future
2. Identifying with the Relationship
3. Perceiving Fewer Attractive Alternatives
4. A Willingness to Exert Effort for the Relationship
5. Investing More in the Relationship
6. Accepting Responsibility for Your Commitment
1. Perceiving a Rewarding Future - Answer -You see yourselves moving in together,
getting married, starting a family.
2. Identifying with the Relationship - Answer -We, us.
3. Perceiving Fewer Attractive Alternatives - Answer -When committed to your partner
you don't see other attractive alternatives.
"Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, happy gardeners will be less
likely to notice."
, Alternatives may be other potential relationships, but they can also be one's work, a
hobby, and so on.
4. A Willingness to Exert Effort for the Relationship - Answer -May be as varied as
helping your partner study for a test or spending time listening to his or her problems.
Effort on behalf of the relationship also may involve sacrifice--that is, giving up some
immediate personal desire in the interest of benefiting the relationship or one's partner.
5. Investing More in the Relationship - Answer -Money, time, emotions; makes it harder
to get out.
6. Accepting Responsibility for Your Commitment - Answer -Own it, we're in this
together, stand up for each other
How the phrase "I love you" manifests itself in dialogue for dating couples (p. 306) -
Answer -1. Declaration of-love reciprocation of love
2. Declaration of love-pseudo reciprocation of love
3. Declaration of love-refutation of love
1. Reciprocation of love - Answer -Both express their love mutually
2. Pseudo reciprocation of love - Answer -One says I love you, the other is not ready for
it
3. Refutation of love - Answer -One says I love you, the other says they do not
If a person wants to know how to more effectively communicate commitment, the book
suggests the following: - Answer -1. Provide Affection
2. Provide Support
3. Maintain Integrity
4. Share Companionship
5. Make Effort to Communicate
6. Show Respect
7. Create Relational Future
8. Create Positive Relationship Atmosphere
9. Work Together on Relationship Problems
10. Express Commitment
1. Provide Affection - Answer -State love, give gifts, show feelings, be intimate.
2. Provide Support - Answer -Build partner up, support decisions, give assistance.
3. Maintain Integrity - Answer -Be faithful ,and honest, keep promises.
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