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Expectancy Violations Theory
What does this theory claim?
Exchange of information high in relational content that can violate expectations of another (either positive or negative)
Expectancy Violations Theory
What is expectancy?
What people predict will happen, rather than what they desire
Expectancy Violations Theory
What is violation valence?
The percieved positive or negative value assigned toa breach of expectations, regardless of who the violator is.
Expectancy Violations Theory
What is communication reward valence?
The sum of positive or negative attributes brought ot the encounter plus the potensial to reward or punish in the future
Expectancy Violations Theory
What is reciprocity?
A strong human tendency to respond to anothers actions with similar behavior.
Social Penetration Theory
What does this theory claim?
How much of ourselves we share with others
Social Penetration Theory
What is social penetration?
The process of developing deeper intimacy with another person through mutual self disclosure and other forms of vulnerability
Social Penetration Theory
What makes something self disclosure?
Voluntary
Something that is not otherwise known
Risk vs reward vs punishment
Social Penetration Theory
What is breadth?
Range of areas in an induviduals life over which disclosure takes place
Social Penetration Theory
What is depth?
Degree of disclosure specific area in induviduals life.
Social Penetration Theory
What is the law of reciprocity?
The concept of openness in one person leads to openness in another
Social Information Processing Theory
What does this theory claim?
Online relationships take more time to develop
Social Information Processing Theory
What is CMC
Computer Mediated Communication
Social Information Processing Theory
What does media richness theory claim?
CMC bandwith is too narrow to convey rich relational messages
Social Information Processing Theory
What is the key factor of this theory and why?
Extended time is key
Relational Dialectics
What does this theory claim?
A dynamic knot of contradictions in personal relationships
Relational Dialectics
What makes a contradiction
The dynamic interplay between unified oppostitions
Relational Dialectics
What are the three core dialectics?
Integration / Seperation
Stability / Change
Expression / Nonexpression
Relational Dialectics
What is the difference between internal and external dialectics
Internal
: Within relationship
External
: Outside a relationship
Communication Accommodation Theory
What is the heart of the theory?
Cultural, Seeking approval by meshing with another’s style
of speaking, intergenerational
Communication Accommodation Theory
What is accommodation?
Movement toward or away
from others by changing the way you communicate
Communication Accommodation Theory
What are the differences between the two strategies?
Covergence: becoming more similar
Divergence: Admit differences and accentuate differences
*Divergence is the norm with convergence being an exception
Communication Accommodation Theory
How do recipients respond to convergence and divergence?
Listeners regard convergence as positive and divergence as
negative
Genderlect
What is the heart of the theory
Male and female
communications is cross cultural communication
Genderlect
What does genderlect mean?
Masculine and feminine styles
of speaking are viewed as two distinct cultural dialects
Genderlect
What do women desire?
Women desire connection
over anything else
Genderlect
What do men desire?
Men desire status
Genderlect
What is the difference between rapport talk and report talk?
Rapport talk
: typical conversational style of women that
seeks to establish connection with others
Report talk
: relaying
information and winning an argument.
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Communication Theory Final
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2009-12-13T22:39:57Z
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