Instructor Resource
Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public
Speaking, 3e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
enacting ghosting.
18. The resurrection process deals with the ways people prepare themselves for new
relationships after ending an old one.
19. Totality emphasizes the complex nature of personal relationships.
20. Relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs) can be divided into prospective,
introspective, and retrospective types.
21. One of the main things that makes a relationship more rewarding to people is a
sense of being known and accepted.
22. The Stages of Coming Together and Coming Apart suggests that people pay
attention to different cues in sequence as they get to know one another.
23. The indexical function of communication demonstrates or indicates the type and
nature of the relationship.
24. Historically, men have more difficulty, compared to women, raising and discussing
Short Answer
1. What occurs as relationships transform?
2. Belonging and a sense of reliable alliance are important because ______.
3. How is flirtation a tool in advancing a relationship?
4. Explain the role of physical appearance in Duck’s Relationship Filtering Model.
5. Provide an example of the external dialectic of revelation–concealment.
6. What are the processes that generally take place in the Breakdown Process Model?
7. Julia Wood has offered six symptoms and sources of decline in personal
relationships. What are they?
8. The study of dialectics adheres to four guiding assumptions. What are these
assumptions?
9. What are the three types of relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs)?
Instructor Resource
Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public
Speaking, 3e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
10. The deep and important psychological and supportive benefits that relationships
provide are known as ______.
11. According to the Relationship Filtering Model, the sequence in which you pay
attention to characteristics of other people is basically the sequence in which you
encounter them. What is the order of that sequence?
12. The _______ function of communication (not just talk, but rather any symbolic
activity) happens when communication makes the relationship real or communicates it
into being.
Essay
1. Explain how relationships influence what you don’t know.
2. Why are people careful about engaging in direct talk about relationships?
3. Explain how relationships influence the distribution of information.
4. Discuss the difference between social and personal relationships.
5. Explain how the grave-dressing process works when a relationship comes apart.
6. Explain Duck’s claim that relationship development depends on the interpretation of
information sharing, not just the act of information sharing.
7. Relationships are categorized according to different styles of communication. Explain
how the understanding and appreciation of business relationships depends on culture.
8. Contradiction involves the interplay between two things that are connected at the
same time they are in opposition. What might those two things include?
9. Using Weiss’s provisions of relationships, explain some of the reasons people are
drawn to social media.
10. How do people make sense of relationships when they are always changing?
11. Explain why being on the rebound after a relationship ends is accepted in society.
12. Explain why some people may believe it is important to have friends from social
networks support them when in the midst of a relationship breakdown.
13. Explain how relationships are evaluated.
14. Explain how the social process works when a relationship comes apart.
15. Explain how the dyadic process works when a relationship comes apart.
16. Explain how the intrapsychic process works when a relationship comes apart.
17. Explain deterioration in communication as it relates to symptoms of decline in
personal relationships.
18. Explain destructive conflict as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal
relationships.
19. Explain changes in evaluative standards as it relates to symptoms of decline in
personal relationships.
20. Explain major transgressions as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal
relationships.
21. Explain inequity as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal relationships.
22. Explain personal reflection as it relates to symptoms of decline in personal
relationships.
23. Explain the guiding assumption of contradiction in relational dialectics.
24. Explain the guiding assumption of change in relational dialectics.
25. Explain the guiding assumption of praxis in relational dialectics.
26. Explain the guiding assumption of totality in relational dialectics.
27. Personal relationships provide people with opportunities to express and evaluate
emotions. Explain how this process works in relationships.
28. What are the provisions of relationships?