Expectancy Violation
The study of people's use of space as a special elaboration of their culture
What is: Proxemics
What is the metaphor for the Social Penetration Theory?
An Onion
What will motivate people to reduce uncertainty? (Hint: there are 3)
1. Anticipation of future interactions
2. Incentives
3. Deviance
What does CMC stand for?
Computer Mediated Communication
A word that closely describes relational dialectics is:
Contradictions
An orienting response that triggers a review of the relationship.
Arousal, Relational
The MiniMax Principle states:
People are motivated to minimizes costs and maximize rewards
What do the two questions of the Uncertainty Reduction Theory ask?
How should I behave? (Behavioral Questions)
Who is this person as an individual? (Cognitive Questions)
Rate, not amount;
4:1 Ratio;
Extended Time
An internal dialectic occurs within the relationship, and an external dialectic occurs:
Between the couple and the community
Consistently having a positive or negative value is the: _____
But, the individual's ability to reward or punish us in the future is the: _______
Violation Valence; Communicator Reward Valence
Your estimated best outcome from other relational options available
What is the comparison level of alternatives?
Susan is interested in why Janet behaved in a certain way. Susan draws her own inference about why she did this. What theory within Uncertainty Reduction does this example show?
Attribution Theory
Lauren texts her friend Michelle. She feels that her message lacks tone, so she adds a smiling emoji to the end. What cue is Lauren using?
Verbal Cues of Affinity
Which of the following words most closely matches the expression-nonexpression dialectic?
Privacy.
Factors such as age, gender, place of birth, personal features, etc.
Communicator Factors
A relationship where one person knows a lot about just a few areas of another person's life has:
More depth than breadth
Berger said this strategy was the quickest way to uncertainty reduction:
Interactive; where you actually talk to the person
Collin posts on Twitter about how sick he is and that he was sad about not being able to show up for his work shift. Collin's friend, Andrew, later posts a picture of them at a basketball game, showing Collin's boss that he isn't truly sick.
What type of value is Collin's post and why?
What type of value would then be placed on Andrew's post and why?
Collin's post has a low-warranting value and can't really be trusted. He is selectively self-presenting and is in control of what he posts.
Andrew's post has a high-warranting value and can be more readily trusted. This is higher as Collin does not have control over what Andrew uploads.
Claire is struggling with wanting to go on new adventures with her partner. Claire's partner enjoys the predictableness of the relationship. Which Internal Dialect does this scenario most closely match?
Certainty - Uncertainty
The Interaction Adaptation Theory relies heavily on this aspect of human nature
Reciprocity
Which disciplines are Social Penetration Theory and Social Exchange Theory based off of? And what kind of theories are they?
(Hint: Not completely communication)
Social Pen: Psychology
Social Exchange: Economics
Objective and from the Socio-Psychological
What happens to the relationship between liking and uncertainty? (Axiom 7)
When uncertainty is reduced, this leads to the decision to like or dislike the individual.
What are the two significant findings of current research?
1. The 4:1 ratio is tightening as people are becoming more comfortable with technology
2. New Social Media is presenting the high and low warranting information
Which conversational strategy for handling relational dialectics states that we switch back and forth between contrasting voices and responding to one tug and then another?
Spiraling Inversion