Attraction and Close Relationships - General relationship processes

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What is the name of one of the two distinguished types of relationships in which a person gives a benefit to the other to receive a comparable benefit in return?

EX: plumber does client's plumbing, they receive money from client

Exchange relationship

What is the name of one of the two distinguished types of relationships in which a person is more concerned with giving their partner benefits and being responsive to their needs, rather than that of the person's own?

Communal relationship

What is the name of the act of verbally revealing information about yourself to someone?

Self-disclosure
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What is the name of the tendency to match each other's level of self-disclosure?

EX: if a person decreases their self-disclosure, the other person tends to decrease their own as well

Disclosure reciprocity

What is the name of the perception of a person in a relationship that the other in the relationship is responsive to their needs - which is experienced as the other understanding, valuing and caring for the self while for example self-disclosing intimate information?

Perceived partner responsiveness

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