UNCW COM 305 Exam 2 – Study Guide, Practice Questions & Exam Review
personality structure - ✔✔is like an onion; multilayered
social penetration theory - ✔✔Its value is in explaining how relational closeness develops;
when you begin a relationship and how it develops over time
- self disclosure occurs rapidly at the beginning
-depth of self disclosure often dramatically increases in the final stages of romantic
deterioration
- depenetration occurs when individuals close off previously open areas of their lives
The depth and breadth of self disclosure; basically everything about self disclosure - ✔✔
what does it mean to regulate closeness on the basis of costs and rewards? - ✔✔you feel
rewarded when someone discloses to you, and disclosure increases when rewarded
Sidney Jourards findings about self-disclosure ch. 8 - ✔✔1. disclosure increases with increased
relational intimacy
2. increases when rewarded
3. increases with the need to reduce uncertainty in relationships
4. tends to be reciprocal, incremental and symmetrical
5. women tend to be higher disclosure's than men
6. women disclose more with people they like, men disclose more w people they trust
7. is regulated by norms of appropriateness
8. attraction is related to positive disclosure but not negative; overlook the negative
9. positive disclosure about oneself is more likely in non intimate relationship
10. negative disclosure about oneself occurs with greater frequency in highly intimate
relationships than in less intimate ones
, 11. satisfaction and disclosure have a curqvi-linear relationship that is relational satisfaction is
greatest at moderate levels of disclosure
--- familiarity breeds contempt
Uncertainty Reduction Theory - ✔✔central to the present theory is the assumption that when
strangers meet, their primary concern is one of uncertainty reduction or increasing the
predictability about the behavior of both themselves and others in the interaction
what are the factors that boost one's drive to reduce uncertainty and what is an axiom? - ✔✔i.
Anticipation of future interaction (we know we'll see them again)
ii. Incentive value (they have something we want)
iii. Deviance (they're strange or weird) trying to find out what makes them tick
what are the various strategies individuals use to learn things about others? - ✔✔i. Passive
strategy (unobtrusive observance)
ii. Active strategy (asking a third party)
iii. Interactive strategy (asking the person)
iv. Extractive strategy (searching the internet)
What are the criticisms of Berger's theory? - ✔✔anticipation of future interactions, deviance,
strategies/ way of removing uncertainty,
strategies for removing doubt:
i. Passive strategy (unobtrusive observance)
ii. Active strategy (asking a third party)
iii. Interactive strategy (asking the person)
iv. Extractive strategy (searching the internet)
personality structure - ✔✔is like an onion; multilayered
social penetration theory - ✔✔Its value is in explaining how relational closeness develops;
when you begin a relationship and how it develops over time
- self disclosure occurs rapidly at the beginning
-depth of self disclosure often dramatically increases in the final stages of romantic
deterioration
- depenetration occurs when individuals close off previously open areas of their lives
The depth and breadth of self disclosure; basically everything about self disclosure - ✔✔
what does it mean to regulate closeness on the basis of costs and rewards? - ✔✔you feel
rewarded when someone discloses to you, and disclosure increases when rewarded
Sidney Jourards findings about self-disclosure ch. 8 - ✔✔1. disclosure increases with increased
relational intimacy
2. increases when rewarded
3. increases with the need to reduce uncertainty in relationships
4. tends to be reciprocal, incremental and symmetrical
5. women tend to be higher disclosure's than men
6. women disclose more with people they like, men disclose more w people they trust
7. is regulated by norms of appropriateness
8. attraction is related to positive disclosure but not negative; overlook the negative
9. positive disclosure about oneself is more likely in non intimate relationship
10. negative disclosure about oneself occurs with greater frequency in highly intimate
relationships than in less intimate ones
, 11. satisfaction and disclosure have a curqvi-linear relationship that is relational satisfaction is
greatest at moderate levels of disclosure
--- familiarity breeds contempt
Uncertainty Reduction Theory - ✔✔central to the present theory is the assumption that when
strangers meet, their primary concern is one of uncertainty reduction or increasing the
predictability about the behavior of both themselves and others in the interaction
what are the factors that boost one's drive to reduce uncertainty and what is an axiom? - ✔✔i.
Anticipation of future interaction (we know we'll see them again)
ii. Incentive value (they have something we want)
iii. Deviance (they're strange or weird) trying to find out what makes them tick
what are the various strategies individuals use to learn things about others? - ✔✔i. Passive
strategy (unobtrusive observance)
ii. Active strategy (asking a third party)
iii. Interactive strategy (asking the person)
iv. Extractive strategy (searching the internet)
What are the criticisms of Berger's theory? - ✔✔anticipation of future interactions, deviance,
strategies/ way of removing uncertainty,
strategies for removing doubt:
i. Passive strategy (unobtrusive observance)
ii. Active strategy (asking a third party)
iii. Interactive strategy (asking the person)
iv. Extractive strategy (searching the internet)
