Abnormal Psychology: Concepts of Normality



Personal Relationships

The Role of Communication

The role of communication in personal relationships:

➢ Social Penetration Theory = argues that as relationships develop over time, exchanges between individuals develop over time

➢ Attribution = the process of explaining other people’s behaviour by assigning causes to it (either situational or dispositional)

➢ Attribution Style = a preference for attributing situational/dispositional causes to a partner’s positive/negative behaviours

➢ Patterns of Accommodation = shifts in communication styles that occur between partners to better adapt to each other in the course of interaction; they can be thought of as strategies of resolving interpersonal conflict

➢ Self-disclosure = purposeful disclosure of personal information (such as feelings concerns, fears) to another person

Psychological Research (pg. 379)

Stratton (Attribution Style) – (2003)

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Rusbult and Zembrodt (Patterns of Accommodations) – (1983)

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