SPC exam 3 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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SPC exam 3 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers

Question:EVT assumptions


Ans: -Expectancies drive human interaction


-Expectancies are learned from individuals and culture


-Expectancies are influenced by prior knowledge, relational history, and
observations


-People make predictions about nonverbal behavior


-Nonverbal communication influences message production


Question: Proxemics


Ans: Study of a person's use of space in conversations and perceptions of
another's use of space.


Question: EVT tradition, context, and approach

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Ans: tradition: Socio-psychological


approach: objective/positivist/empirical


context: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal


Question: Proxemic Zones


Ans: -Hall (1966) identified primary zones of personal space expectations
among North Americans.


-intimate, personal, social, public


-for F2F, vary when we are communicating side-by-side.


Question: Intimate distance


Ans: 0 to 18 inches


Question: Personal distance


Ans: 18 inches to 4 feet


Question: Social distance


Ans: 4 to 12 feet


Question: Public distance

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Ans: 12 feet and beyond


Question: two competing needs for space (Burgoon, 1978)


Ans: • Affiliation: Relational; Integration, Close


• Personal space: Individual Body Space; Autonomy


Question: Territoriality


Ans: Person's ownership of an area or object


Question: types of territories (Altman, 1975)


Ans: • Primary territories (home)


• Secondary territories


• Public territories (no personal affiliations)


Question: Expectancies


Ans: -Cognitions and behaviors anticipated and prescribed in conversations
with another person


-can be verbal and nonverbal


Question: Types of expectations