Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships
Sixth Edition
Learning Objectives
1.1: Identify the various areas of research that contribute to the broader body of literature on close relationships.
1.2: Define and distinguish among role relationships, interpersonal relationships, and close relationships, as well as interpersonal and relational communication.
1.3: Describe how researchers think about relationships in terms of categories and the characteristics that define them.
1.4: Describe the six principles of interpersonal communication and know that ideas associated with each principle.
1.5: Describe the five principles of relational communication.
1.6: Identify and describe the seven fundamental themes of relational communication.