Close Encounters: Communication In Relationships, Fourth Edition
Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Anderson, and Walid A. Afifi
Instructor Resource
Chapter 5: Changing Relationships
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Chloe and Aidan have known one another for several years, but gradually they’ve begun
to get closer and have moved their relationship to a romantic level. They’ve begun to
attend parties together, host get-togethers, and often finish one another’s sentences. What
stage of Knapp’s theory of coming together would best characterize Chloe and Aiden’s
current relationship?
a. experimenting stage
2. Which of Knapp’s stages is characterized by extended small talk?
a. integrating stage
3. Most relationships do not develop beyond the ______________ stage.
a. initiating stage
4. According to the text, which of the following behaviors is NOT part of the “coupling
behavior” that helps define the integrating stage?
d. people expecting to see you with your partner
5. In the textbook, the authors mention Tohuizen’s strategies for intensifying relationships.
Which strategy involves asking the partner to make a commitment?
a. increased rewards
6. Which strategy is used the most often to help intensify relationships?
a. social enmeshment
7. According to the text book, choosing a friend as godparent for your child is an indicator
that your relationship with your friend is in the __________ stage.
c. intensifying
d. experimenting
8. Which of the following was NOT mentioned in class or your readings as a type of turning
point?
a. activities and special occasions
9. According to the research in your textbook, ________% of friendships follow the linear
type of relationship development predicted by stage theories.
a. 10-20%
28. Openness/closedness is the internal manifestation of the certainty dialectic.
29. Progress/stagnation is the internal manifestation of the expression dialectic.
30. Risk/reward is the fundamental dialectical tension of close relationships
31. According to your book the stages in Knapp and Vangelisti’s model always occurs in the
same order.
32. According to Knapp and Vangelisti, the stages of coming together are the mirror image
of the stages coming apart.
33. Reframing is one of the ways to manage a dialectic tension mentioned in the textbook.
34. Recent research by Duran and colleagues showed that the autonomy connection dialectic
did not apply to cell phone communication.
35. Moving back and forth from one side of the dialectic to the other to manage the tension is
called cyclical alternation.
36. The “exact exchange” stage is the final stage of relational closeness according to the
Social penetration model.
37. Being able to do new things as a result of one’s association with an intercultural friend is
listed in your book as a major advantage of intercultural relationships.
38. According to your book, people are more open to having an intercultural friend if they
had been involved with people from other cultures in the past
Essay
39. List three turning points in romantic relationship. Why are these likely to change the
trajectory of a relationship?
Ans: Varies
40. What are the three fundamental discursive dialectical dimensions? What are the internal
dialectal tensions that represent each of these dimensions?
Ans: Varies
41. Provide a critique of the Knapp and Vangelisti Stage model highlighting at least four
problems.
Ans: Varies
42. Discuss in detail, selection, separation, neutralization, and reframing, the four ways to
manage dialectical tensions.
Ans: Varies
43. Do relational dialectics still apply to relationship conducted over mobile phones and
social media?
Ans: Varies
44. What are three major advantages of intercultural relationships?
Ans: Varies