SPC ACTUAL MAIN EXAM TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Types of arousal - ✔✔•Cognitive: We become alert (aware) and focus on the
violation
•Physical: physical response—(e.g. moving to adjust space/distance; change body
posture—offensive display)
✔✔Threat Threshold - ✔✔• Tolerance for distance violations
• Threats may occur after arousal
•Size of the threshold is based on how the initiator of the threat is viewed
✔✔Violation Valence - ✔✔•Perceived negative or positive assessment of an
unexpected behavior
• Focus is on the deviation of an expectation
•Communicators interpret the meaning of a violation and decide whether they like it or
not
✔✔Communicator Reward Valence - ✔✔•Potential to either reward or punish in
conversations
•People bring both positive and negative characteristics to an interaction
•Reward includes a number of characteristics that allow a person to be viewed favorably
or unfavorably
✔✔which theory offers a way to link behavior and
cognitions and offers us an understanding of our need for both personal space and
people? - ✔✔EVT
✔✔___'s work continues to be critical and groundbreaking in the
communication discipline for EVT - ✔✔Burgoon
✔✔EVT: Scope - ✔✔•Nonverbal communication is an expansive area.
•Originally focused on personal space but expanded to include other nonverbal
behaviors
✔✔EVT: testability - ✔✔•Lack of clarity regarding reliance on self-perception of arousal
-no reliable way to measure besides self report
•Generally, EVT is a testable theory
✔✔EVT: Heurism - ✔✔• Scholarship related to EVT has proliferated since its inception.
• Theory has been incorporated into research in diverse topic areas.
✔✔EVT: Utility - ✔✔•Advice on how to elicit favorable impressions
•Implications of space violations on conversations and relationships
, ✔✔core of SIP theory - ✔✔impression management
✔✔T or F: Nonverbal cues are essential to developing and securing
interpersonal relationships - ✔✔False
✔✔SIP theory - ✔✔-examines the development of online relationships
-acknowledges that individuals have the ability to establish online relationships equal to
or greater than the intimacy achieved in face-to-face relationships
✔✔T or F: In computer-mediated communication (CMC), it takes longer for
relationships to achieve intimacy - ✔✔true
✔✔Social Presence Theory - ✔✔Relates to the extent that individuals are aware of
each other via various communication media
✔✔Media Richness Theory - ✔✔Suggests that while communicating online, the medium
is too narrow to allow for relationship development
✔✔T or F: Online relational development has little integrity because of a lack of
nonverbal cues - ✔✔true
✔✔SIP assumptions - ✔✔-Computer-mediated communication (CMC) provides unique
opportunities to connect with people.
-Online communicators are motivated to communicate (favorable) impressions to
others.
-Online interpersonal relationships require extended time and more accumulated
messages to develop equivalent levels of intimacy seen in FtF interpersonal
relationships.
✔✔Chronemic cues - ✔✔-how people perceive, use, or respond to time
-only nonverbal cue not filtered out of CMC
-People will trade more relational messages if they think they may meet again. This
anticipated future interaction motivates them to develop the relationship
✔✔What two features provide a rationale for SIP? - ✔✔Verbal cues and Extended time
✔✔SIP: Hyperpersonal Perspective - ✔✔-Online communication is perceived as more
powerful than those undertaken FtF
-Components:
• Sender:
• Receiver
• Channel management.
• Feedback.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Types of arousal - ✔✔•Cognitive: We become alert (aware) and focus on the
violation
•Physical: physical response—(e.g. moving to adjust space/distance; change body
posture—offensive display)
✔✔Threat Threshold - ✔✔• Tolerance for distance violations
• Threats may occur after arousal
•Size of the threshold is based on how the initiator of the threat is viewed
✔✔Violation Valence - ✔✔•Perceived negative or positive assessment of an
unexpected behavior
• Focus is on the deviation of an expectation
•Communicators interpret the meaning of a violation and decide whether they like it or
not
✔✔Communicator Reward Valence - ✔✔•Potential to either reward or punish in
conversations
•People bring both positive and negative characteristics to an interaction
•Reward includes a number of characteristics that allow a person to be viewed favorably
or unfavorably
✔✔which theory offers a way to link behavior and
cognitions and offers us an understanding of our need for both personal space and
people? - ✔✔EVT
✔✔___'s work continues to be critical and groundbreaking in the
communication discipline for EVT - ✔✔Burgoon
✔✔EVT: Scope - ✔✔•Nonverbal communication is an expansive area.
•Originally focused on personal space but expanded to include other nonverbal
behaviors
✔✔EVT: testability - ✔✔•Lack of clarity regarding reliance on self-perception of arousal
-no reliable way to measure besides self report
•Generally, EVT is a testable theory
✔✔EVT: Heurism - ✔✔• Scholarship related to EVT has proliferated since its inception.
• Theory has been incorporated into research in diverse topic areas.
✔✔EVT: Utility - ✔✔•Advice on how to elicit favorable impressions
•Implications of space violations on conversations and relationships
, ✔✔core of SIP theory - ✔✔impression management
✔✔T or F: Nonverbal cues are essential to developing and securing
interpersonal relationships - ✔✔False
✔✔SIP theory - ✔✔-examines the development of online relationships
-acknowledges that individuals have the ability to establish online relationships equal to
or greater than the intimacy achieved in face-to-face relationships
✔✔T or F: In computer-mediated communication (CMC), it takes longer for
relationships to achieve intimacy - ✔✔true
✔✔Social Presence Theory - ✔✔Relates to the extent that individuals are aware of
each other via various communication media
✔✔Media Richness Theory - ✔✔Suggests that while communicating online, the medium
is too narrow to allow for relationship development
✔✔T or F: Online relational development has little integrity because of a lack of
nonverbal cues - ✔✔true
✔✔SIP assumptions - ✔✔-Computer-mediated communication (CMC) provides unique
opportunities to connect with people.
-Online communicators are motivated to communicate (favorable) impressions to
others.
-Online interpersonal relationships require extended time and more accumulated
messages to develop equivalent levels of intimacy seen in FtF interpersonal
relationships.
✔✔Chronemic cues - ✔✔-how people perceive, use, or respond to time
-only nonverbal cue not filtered out of CMC
-People will trade more relational messages if they think they may meet again. This
anticipated future interaction motivates them to develop the relationship
✔✔What two features provide a rationale for SIP? - ✔✔Verbal cues and Extended time
✔✔SIP: Hyperpersonal Perspective - ✔✔-Online communication is perceived as more
powerful than those undertaken FtF
-Components:
• Sender:
• Receiver
• Channel management.
• Feedback.
