What the heck is theory? (Chapters 1-4)
According to Chapter 1, this is a set of systematic informed hunches about the way things work.
What is theory?
According to Expectancy Violations Theory, this is the invisible space surrounding an individual that defines that individual's preferred distance from others.
What is personal space?
True or false, in order to understand Social Penetration Theory, we must understand the complexity of people.
True.
The feeling that one has the right to own private information.
What is privacy?
This theory explains how we evaluate ideas and compare it with our own current attitudes.
What is Social Judgement Theory?
A record of a message that can be analyzed by scholars/researchers (e.g. a book, film, journal article, etc.)
What is a text?
What are the three core principles of Symbolic Interactionism?
Meaning, Language & Thinking
According to URT, _________________ occurs when negative emotions arise from perceived problems in a close relationship.
Relational turbulence
According to Media Multiplexity Theory, this is the degree of connection between people determined by the amount of time spent together, emotional intensity and intimacy.
What is tie strength?
This distressing mental state caused by inconsistency between a person's two beliefs or a belief and an action.
What is cognitive dissonance?
The assumption that behavior is caused by heredity and environment.
What is determinism?
According to EVT, this is what people predict will happen, rather than what they desire.
What is an expectancy?
Our desire to reduce uncertainty is based on three conditions. What are they?
What are:
Anticipation of future interaction
Incentive Value
Deviance
According to CPM, who is the person that you have authorized to have your private information?
Co-owner
According to Social Judgement Theory, this is the opinion we have based on our life experiences.
What is an anchored attitude?
Craig's (1999) tradition of communication theory that focuses on interaction and influence and believes that communication truths can be discovered through careful, systematic observation.
What is the socio-psychological tradition?
What are the three contributing factors to the expectations we have for an interaction?
Context, relationship, communicator characteristics
What is passive strategy?
What type of tie enables information and resources to pass between groups of people?
Bridging tie
According to the hypotheses of Cognitive Dissonance Theory, this is the tendency people have to avoid information that would create cognitive dissonance because its incompatible with their current beliefs.
What is selective exposure?
What type of scholarship/research studies what it's like to be another person in a specific place and time.
What is humanistic scholarship?
According to Symbolic Interactionism, this is the mental self-image that results from taking the role of the other or the objective self.
What is the "looking-glass self?"
According to Social Penetration theory, what is the belief that individuals should live their lives to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain?
Ethical egoism
According to Communication Privacy Management Theory, this is the disruption of privacy management and trust that occurs when collective privacy boundaries aren't synchronized/followed.
What is boundary turbulence?
According to Social Judgement Theory, this is how central an issue is in our lives.
What is ego-involvement?